A Closer Look at the New Context Menus in Google Chrome

Google Chrome is at present the primary browser on the desktop, and statistics present it runs on almost 70 % of the world’s PCs.

In different phrases, Chrome is put in on 7 out of 10 computer systems on the market, which is pretty spectacular given that every one these gadgets include a local browser of their very own.

Considering how giant the userbase of Google Chrome at present is, Google has the very troublesome mission of delivering a constant replace expertise for the browser. New options, further refinements right here and there, and safety patches, they have to be all shipped repeatedly to maintain Chrome the main browser worldwide.

More not too long ago, Google has began work on refining certainly one of the elements of the browser that we’re interacting fairly often with: the context menus.

These are the menus that we see when right-clicking varied components inside the browser, be they hyperlinks, media content material, textual content, tabs, or one thing else.

The most up-to-date model of Google Chrome gives us with a better look at how these context menus could be additional refined going ahead, and at present we’re going to have a better look at this new overhaul.

First and foremost, the first change regarding the context menus is the removing of the white define, which makes the menus themselves look extra trendy total. The white define doesn’t mix too properly in the new darkish expertise, and whereas it made sense with a lightweight theme, it doesn’t now that Google Chrome has a darkish mode too.

Additionally, Google is refining the tab context menus, and this time there are a lot of extra adjustments, together with the removing of some options. The objective right here just isn’t solely to acquire the trendy expertise described above, but additionally to simplify the menu total, so that you’ll discover every part cleaner and a bit simpler to make use of.

Here are the default choices in the context menu in the present model of Chrome versus the redesigned one:

	Current model	Future model
New tab	x
Reload	x	x
Duplicate	x	x
Pin tab	x	x
Focus this tab	x	x
Mute web site	x	x
Close tab	x	x
Close different tabs	x
Closer different tabs to the proper	x	x
Reopen closed tab	x
Bookmark all tabs	x

As famous in this reddit thread, Google explains the adjustments in a current commit:


Update tab and body context menus to match most up-to-date UX specs.
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This removes 4 entries from the tab context menu; adjustments the textual content on a number of others to cease saying "tab(s)" explicitly; provides one entry to the body context menu; and adjustments the bookmark-related menu entry strings from "page" to "tab" for consistency.


Needless to say, these adjustments may not be everybody’s cup of tea, not essentially from a design perspective, however in the case of usability. Moving the “Reopen closed tab” choice to the body context menu, for example, might be complicated for some, albeit that is the place the built-in Google Chrome hotkeys come in helpful too.

While some choices come and go in the context menus, the keyboard shortcuts are nonetheless there, so you may reopen a closed tab by merely…