Comment 12 for bug 1575191

+Olivier Tilloy Never hiding it in desktop mode should be very obvious... but this is something of a middle ground where it's being used in tablet mode. The screen is large enough to switch into the tabbed mode, but it's still using a touch interface on a small screen... I'm not sure what the best thing to do there is, I certainly enjoy the "full browser" experience on the tablet even in touch mode, so I would definitely not want to go back to the mobile interface...

Short of some other solution which does not force the viewport to change (like bringing in the url bar over the top of the rendered HTML, rather than changing the size of the viewport)... I can't see much other option, I think google does leave the URL bar there on android in this context.