> The UX of moving what I'm looking at instantly under click is very unpleasant too,
Could you expand on this? What are you referring to?
Could you expand on this? What are you referring to?
Click in the address bar and the entire address is selected, then you click on any part of it to either select a part or to place your cursor in order to add to it, after which Chrome appears to first shift the entire URL to the right in order to show the protocol, then it places the cursor within the shifted URL under your pointer. This causes (attempted) selections to be established from some other place in the URL than the user intended.
After the last few days of wondering about this, I see now that hovering over the X makes is ~5% darker.