Well, most of those webapps will likely navigate/open external websites.
I would love to have a hacker news window by default, so that external links i open there are nicely managed within the hackers news app.
So, the tab bar is a plus, if you ask me. The address bar and the new tab icon, should be removed though. Better yet, the new tab icon, should open he base url, or some other logical url: for gmail it could be a compose windows, for example.
And "mozilla firefox" should not be part of the window title. Other than that, actually hiding the fact its a browser is not really usefull. The tab bar, the menu .. No reason to remove those by default.
But i suspect, these apps are running in their own profile, and it is firefox, so we could always tweak the chrome ourselves.
To be honest if I clicked on a link in a "GMail app" I'd expect it to open a new "full" browser window (or a new tab in an existing browser window). You'd have to be able to distinguish between internal and external links, of course, but the domain name is a workable heuristic.
The ability to open new tabs should probably be configured on an app-by-app basis. Opening tabs of mail is a pretty sensible idea, but a game developer using HTML5 would likely want to prevent that. Ditto the location bar. (I agree that the user should be able to override these settings.)
I would want a external link in the gmail app, to open in a tab in the gmail app.
The internet is everywhere.. I dont want those 50 tabs in one big browser window, nor do i want them in separate windows.
I want them organised based on context. Most of those tabs belong to the initiating application. From a hackers news app, with the chosen articles, to a google docs app, with open documents.
As long as i can pick up a tab, and add it to some other window, that would make the most sense to me.
I would love to have a hacker news window by default, so that external links i open there are nicely managed within the hackers news app.
So, the tab bar is a plus, if you ask me. The address bar and the new tab icon, should be removed though. Better yet, the new tab icon, should open he base url, or some other logical url: for gmail it could be a compose windows, for example.
And "mozilla firefox" should not be part of the window title. Other than that, actually hiding the fact its a browser is not really usefull. The tab bar, the menu .. No reason to remove those by default.
But i suspect, these apps are running in their own profile, and it is firefox, so we could always tweak the chrome ourselves.