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Google offers look into Chrome Aura window manager

Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 27 Nov 2011 1:51 User comments (1)

Google offers look into Chrome Aura window manager Google has given a first look into its upcoming Aura window manager for Chrome and Chrome OS.
Aura is a hardware accelerated UI that will give users a chance to manage their multiple windows much easier.

The company has revealed a quick teaser (posted below), showing off the UI's features which include translucent window frames and constrained window dragging.

Furthermore, Google is adding a data "timeline" for graphing data sent/received by the browser, a new pointer lock and a new flag.

Finally, the browser will get a chrome://sessions local URL showing the user what tabs are open, no matter how many windows are open.

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128.11.2011 02:22
lily201321
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Webkit core will be merged in avant after 3 months? Hope avant can support this feature

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