It's by limitation, not so much design.
Firefox and IE provide a sidebar for extensions to use that allows Bonfire to happily sit there until you need it. Chrome & Safari unfortunately don't provide this. To be fair Safari allows extensions to add toolbars, but they aren't suitable for Bonfire's user interface. As a result Bonfire is limited to opening a new tab in order to display itself in Chrome & Safari, hence the different workflow.
There is a feature request open to add a sidebar to Chrome that we monitor. If this is ever implemented we would quickly make use of it in Bonfire, however, there is no committment from the Chrome team to implement this yet.
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