MKC

At least for us, notifications aren’t something you can really glance at similarly to app indicators. They’re usually text heavy, only really work for longer tasks for readability (which syncing usually isn’t), and are always obscured behind another popup for persistent notifications. Persistent notifications also take up more space within the notifications popup, rather than a small icon that you can easily glance at to know what’s happening.

As for programs not staying in the task manager, they usually take up less space if open as an app indicator, being able to be passively open but not take up as much space.

last we checked they preserved the tracker links bing themselves would use on results, which you had to opt out of.

doesn’t duckduckgo do the same thing at this point with tracker links? it also uses bing

surprised windows 11 is even capable of rendering borders, but yeah that’s pretty much what’s happening here, looks similar to on 10 when using a theme with borders. I guess whatever is done to hide the borders when maximizing still works, but it showing the borders while not maximized somehow happens despite the theme not being built for it (maybe an issue with DWM?)

Also, yes. They’ve been doing this for over a decade now.

There is a CSS tweak by the person behind Classic Theme Restorer that can swap those two back around.