I just updated to GNOME 3.10 and found the new address bar for epiphany. This new design features the URL as the most important thing on the window. The page title used to be there and is no longer visible.

I like the idea of the URL on top because it teach users to remember them instead of relying on search engines. However, one major drawback, is that the window is now difficult to move around. Because the title bar is gone, and most of the space is taken by a text entry, dragging the window to move it have to take place around this text entry. This is not always the most comfortable.

Perhaps the solution is to implement the design in https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Web that features a title bar that can be clicked to reveal the URL.

The solution is to replace the address bar with the title of the page.
Sometimes to show the address bar and sometimes to show the title:
* address bar is visible when the window/tab has just been opened
* address bar hides when the page has finished loading
* address bar remains visible if the address differs from the loaded page
(This the design from Allan Day).

I'll implement this soon.

And of course, the address bar is shown when the user click on the title.

(In reply to comment #2)
> The solution is to replace the address bar with the title of the page.
> Sometimes to show the address bar and sometimes to show the title:
> * address bar is visible when the window/tab has just been opened
> * address bar hides when the page has finished loading
> * address bar remains visible if the address differs from the loaded page
> (This the design from Allan Day).

If you hide the address bar, what are you going to do with the reload button and the security (lock) indicator?

I assume he means that the address bar field will become hidden and replaced by the page title - with the reload and other control buttons on either side of it as they were. 

I like this idea - it would be nice if a mousedown+drag action was able to move the window around by dragging on the title area when the address bar isn't present (this may have been implicit).

There is the case of the accidental drag when the user intends to click to invoke the address bar, but...

I think the favicon, the lock and the reload button should all remain where they are when the address bar turns into the title bar.

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 711408 ***