That’s not perfect, but it’s clearly better than the actual tab bar design in the Safari 4 public beta. Consider: with the previous tab design, if you wanted to move a window you dragged the window, and if you wanted to move a tab, you dragged the tab. Now in Safari 4, if you want to move the window you drag a tab, and if you want to move a tab you drag the small grippy strip at the far right edge of a tab. This is more abstract, indirect, and worse. Chrome’s tab design suffers none of these problems. from: Daring Fireball
I suspect that the “problem being solved” is that there was nothing about the old tabs that indicated you could move (or do anything with) them. Though the old title bar is gone, the behaviour is the same as before — click anywhere on the top of the window (except the grippy bit) and the window moves. Click the grippy bit and voilà, suddenly the masses know they can move their tabs about at will.