Google teases new Chrome tabs as part of Material Design overhaul

Google is working on a Material Design Refresh of its Chrome web browser. The search giant has started testing the Chrome design in the latest Canary developer builds of the web browser, allowing anyone to get an early look at what Google is experimenting with. The most obvious addition is a new address bar with rounded tabs, that look ugly on the desktop version of Chrome. Google’s rounded corners on tabs look a lot more like Firefox’s old design, and they look very different to the current trapezoid-like shaped tabs found in the existing version of Chrome.

9to5Google reports that Google has also published an updated Material Design document, that references a “Material Design Refresh” instead of the “Material Design 2” naming we’d…

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