To clarify, you want history and compare on both?

oh i see, I linked history to the timestamp on the browse interface. I can button-ify that.

I would personally say:

• The target of the link (stable) should possibly be history, not browse. This isn't how things work now, and isn't what GitHub does, but at least part of the old behavior was for consistency with the file lists, where the target of the link should "obviously" be browse, not history. Previously, file lists and branch lists appeared right next to one another with similar UI, so making them inconsistent could have been confusing. Since they're now more separate, I think there's a stronger argument for making "history" the default.
• I think offering "Compare" in both UIs is reasonable.
• I'm not sure we need "browse" from this UI at all. In cases where I'm interacting with branches I'm never concerned about what the repository looks like at the branch head: I believe I always care about the commit history.

I think I've normalized all the views here ( History, Tags, Branches ) but if something sticks out as inconsistent or I mis-read any feedback, give a hollar.

I'm still importing an HG repo for testing, at 20%