User experience preference.
Chrome is the only place where I see tabs similar to Synapse's new design. For better or worse, I now expect tabs to all function like Chrome's tabs.
That includes missing interaction patterns such as:
- Middle-mouse clicking a tab to close it.
- Drag-and-drop to reorder tabs.
- Having the clickable "X" present on each tab even if it isn't the active tab.
- Ctrl+Tab to go to the tab on the right and Ctrl+Shift+Tab to go left.
I don't have enough Razer products (wow, that's something I never thought I'd say) to fill up the tab bar to overflow, but I really enjoy side scrolling on tabs. I can also see how a tabbed interface may become tedious for folks with many many products. Especially if tabs can't be pinned or reordered.