Move the browser to the side? I can never understand why anyone would want to manually shuffle windows around as a disorganized stack.
From my perspective the desktop metaphor UX was obsolete the moment it was conceived of. All anyone has to do is look at the physical desks of a thousand random people and it should be immediately obvious how little value there is in recreating that chaos.
Yeah I also have felt it weird and anachronistic that computer GUIs STARTED with a windows-based system, in an era of small screens, limited colors, limited resolution, and limited user expertise!
Working with such few resources, an iPad-like fullscreen UI would have made more sense and been more efficient.
Companies just wanted to show off I guess.
It made a lot more sense back before every agent in the system had an interest in shipping the org chart and making their piece as cumbersome as possible to increase ad revenue.