Google Chrome's New UI Is Ugly, and People Are Very Angry

Mazzspeed said:
What else is there to theme? You can still go into Hamburger Menu > Customize and basically change every aspect of the browser.
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Actully quite a lot. It seems moz took down the full themes, but I found this old site with some examples if you are curious http://www.smashingapps.com/2008/09/28/11-free-firefox-3-themes-you-probably-never-use-before.html there used to be a few hundred of these types of themes.

Over time moz slowly pushed for less customization, eventually people had to use 'classic theme restorer' addon to put this back into firefox in order to use the complete themes, but now even that is gone.
 
Doesn't look all that different, not sure why people are upset.

But I'll keep using Netscape navigator, they haven't changed the ui in ages so no complaints here.
 
mnewxcv said:
Doesn't look all that different, not sure why people are upset.

But I'll keep using Netscape navigator, they haven't changed the ui in ages so no complaints here.
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Looks very different to me. With the theme I've had installed for years now, I am unable to tell where tabs start and end, and which tab is in focus. Especially difficult when I'm opening multiple search results at the same time.
 
Tsumi said:
Looks very different to me. With the theme I've had installed for years now, I am unable to tell where tabs start and end, and which tab is in focus. Especially difficult when I'm opening multiple search results at the same time.
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if you use a dark theme it is very obvious where tabs are. Maybe that is why I hardly noticed a difference (other than the X is no longer red)
 
Never installed Chrome and have given up on all things Google and can't be happier. DuckDuckGo for searches and FF for browser and either Linux or W7 for OS. No Apple either. And have all scripts that contact Google blocked. Things still work just fine it seems.

Honestly I wish all websites had something like HardOCP's black, red, and grey design(y), so much easier on the eyes than blinding white and obscure icons for menus that make no sense at all.
 
I just resolved myself to accept that pretty much all software sucks, the there are far too many vice presidents in these companies who need to justify their jobs so they will change things just for the sake of changing them. Then you have the engineers who rarely talk to another human being, making decisions on how the software will behave based on his/her own knowledge about computers, which means that unless the end user is an engineer, no one will understand how to use it except the one who writes it. New and Improved! We moved everything around! Ain't it great! Next year we''ll move everything around again. The settings? OH, we moved those around too, so the way you could personalize the last version won't work! You're gonna love it!

Otherwise the top brass might think that they aren't earning their pay, so they'll find a way to inconvenience all the end users.

This has basically been the standard operating procedure for most of the computer industry for decades.

Move on, nothing to see here, just the same old stupid corporate behavior.
 
illli said:
Actully quite a lot. It seems moz took down the full themes, but I found this old site with some examples if you are curious http://www.smashingapps.com/2008/09/28/11-free-firefox-3-themes-you-probably-never-use-before.html there used to be a few hundred of these types of themes.

Over time moz slowly pushed for less customization, eventually people had to use 'classic theme restorer' addon to put this back into firefox in order to use the complete themes, but now even that is gone.
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I haven't seen the need to theme a browser like that since ~2000.
 
I didn't know the theme changed but I did try for an hour to make it so I could see which tab I was on. I guess I did notice just thought maybe that's how it always was because I use Firefox normally. But at work they support custom things through chrome plugins and it's been difficult to see the tabs. I think I switched to a pink theme, problem solved.
 
nightfly said:
I just resolved myself to accept that pretty much all software sucks, the there are far too many vice presidents in these companies who need to justify their jobs so they will change things just for the sake of changing them. Then you have the engineers who rarely talk to another human being, making decisions on how the software will behave based on his/her own knowledge about computers, which means that unless the end user is an engineer, no one will understand how to use it except the one who writes it. New and Improved! We moved everything around! Ain't it great! Next year we''ll move everything around again. The settings? OH, we moved those around too, so the way you could personalize the last version won't work! You're gonna love it!

Otherwise the top brass might think that they aren't earning their pay, so they'll find a way to inconvenience all the end users.

This has basically been the standard operating procedure for most of the computer industry for decades.

Move on, nothing to see here, just the same old stupid corporate behavior.
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You are correct, but in some ways i think it is worse than that.. I think the UI books have just been burned, and the old guard who wrote it politely retired for no reason. Yes, I CAN use the 'modern' UI, but my frame of mind is when working new things in it, is how would a young inexperienced/ untrained programmer would do it.. ? its usually takes assuming missed visual hints, and there it is... Less is more, and clean and all that jazz..
 
NKD said:
Not sure what the fuck is there to complain about. It looks pretty similar. I guess people always want to bitch about shit that matters the least. One thing I wish google implemented was run feature when we do downloads. So I don't have to save them to actual folder and install them and then delete them. That is one thing I appreciate about IE. Like installing drivers that you don't need to keep and it goes to temp files and then gets erased. Unless its a zip file that requires extraction. UI? Seriously it just more flashy but the same.
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Basically Firefox and their love of Google knob-slobbery has the same problem.

Here, find my scrollbar.

It's so low-contrast you you have to go hunting for it.

If I weren't running at such high resolution, it'd be an actual problem (scrollbar compression for long pages)..

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Chas said:
Basically Firefox and their love of Google knob-slobbery has the same problem.

Here, find my scrollbar.

It's so low-contrast you you have to go hunting for it.

If I weren't running at such high resolution, it'd be an actual problem (scrollbar compression for long pages)..

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But, but, but its 'clean' /s
Its pathetic.. the computing power is there, no need to DOS- ify things (even the DOS was clearler)
 
I still remember that the main reason teenage me stopped using Internet Explorer after 6 was the UI redesign. I still don't understand why the hell would you stick the home button over on the right side of the screen... It belongs in the same area as favorites and the forward/back arrows. With Firefox I could set it up however I wanted and it didn't look like a shiny Fisher Price toy the way IE7 did.

illli said:
Over time moz slowly pushed for less customization, eventually people had to use 'classic theme restorer' addon to put this back into firefox in order to use the complete themes, but now even that is gone.
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Practically everything in the Firefox browser UI can be re-positioned to your liking, that's the important thing. Nobody ever gave a crap about themes.

Chas said:
Here, find my scrollbar.

It's so low-contrast you you have to go hunting for it.
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That would be annoying.

Apparently it's tied to your OS theme color, by default I get a nice orange or green slider since all my boxes run Ubuntu or Mint.
 
Who cares about the theme. In Chrome 70 they removed the ability to mute individual tabs with a simple click of the speaker icon on each tab. Now you have to mute everything from an entire website. Right now you have the option to disable that in flags and go back to right-click -> mute tab, but how long before they decide to remove that option as well? Their excuse was the best, though. Something along the lines of breaking intended web design or something stupid. Well, Google should know a lot about breaking web design. Ironic that when Chrome first came out that it was the most compatible browser as it followed HTML and W3C standards to a 't' while IE was breaking web design. Now it's the other way around with Edge.
 
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Chrome works fine in my book.

However, I download a lot of files, and while using gmail for my work, I tend to download a lot of these files and email them outward.

What's annoyong is the recent downloads portion that pops up on the bottom of the window, tends to go away after even clicking on any one of the previous downloads or just by creating a new tab or switching to a different one. Is there a way to lock that downloaded bar in place?


Also, not necessarily a UI issue, but I can't stand how we can't folder google sheet docs.
 
Megalith said:
Not everyone was a fan of Chrome’s Material Design refresh when it debuted in September with the release of version 69, but there was some good news, in that users could revert to the old theme by visiting the chrome://flags page and modifying a setting. Unfortunately, Google has incited the wrath of those who hate mobile-first, eye-searing UIs by removing that option this month to force its adoption. The company’s engineers are advising complainants to switch to another browser, as those who downgrade to an older version to get the old UI back are opening themselves up to security risks.

For the past two to three weeks, social media sites like Reddit and Twitter have been flooded with complaints about Chrome's new UI and users wailing about not being able to switch back to the old style. Most of the complaints that Chrome users are bringing forward are legitimate. It is incredibly harder to find a desired tab on the tab bar with the new UI, compared to the old one. Furthermore, Chrome's new UI also broke users' ability to mute tabs, which is an inconvenience of its own.
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WOW that sucks I like my themes it's easier to focus on the main body of text or whatever garbage my browser is throwing at me. Themes still work with Chrome PC edition if they take that away I'm using Firefox again.
 
Zarathustra[H] said:
Seriosly, fuck mobile. It has done nothing but make tech worse over the last 10 years.
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Amen brother amen. We are in total agreement. Every time I go to a web page I feel like the designer thinks I am 4 years old and I can't read anything but big text on a white background. There is no, and I repeat no, intuitiveness in any mobile design. It is like they forgot how to design a web page, OS, app, everything. It's like we are starting from scratch again. I wanted to quote the entire post, but it was too long, but this last line sums it up perfectly.
 
the problme i see todays is that minmalist desing has been the priroty OVER functionality which is abig nono in my eyes

KISS is nice
But KIES is better


Keep It Effective Stupid (Incase you couldn't figure it out :))
 
I tried about 200 themes when it was all the rage with Stardocks windowblinds. A lot of good themes were met with little eye strain. Then you had the themes which were like all bright green those would mess me up in minutes even I think some colors would just cause eye discomfort due to the contrast. Like the black MS edge theme that is some bad stuff.
 
DeathFromBelow said:
That would be annoying.

Apparently it's tied to your OS theme color, by default I get a nice orange or green slider since all my boxes run Ubuntu or Mint.
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And in Windows 10 there's no good way to edit themes.
 
DeathFromBelow said:
I still remember that the main reason teenage me stopped using Internet Explorer after 6 was the UI redesign. I still don't understand why the hell would you stick the home button over on the right side of the screen... It belongs in the same area as favorites and the forward/back arrows. With Firefox I could set it up however I wanted and it didn't look like a shiny Fisher Price toy the way IE7 did.



Practically everything in the Firefox browser UI can be re-positioned to your liking, that's the important thing. Nobody ever gave a crap about themes.



That would be annoying.

Apparently it's tied to your OS theme color, by default I get a nice orange or green slider since all my boxes run Ubuntu or Mint.
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I find it amusing that you were OK with the disaster that was IE6, but the UI change in IE7 was what made you switch :p
 
When FF went Quantum I really wanted to leave Chrome. But my bookmarks in Chrome are all over the place, barely organized. Obviously, my fault. But I'm actually content with Chrome. I've an Android phone, so I'm in that jungle. Also, my PC is old, and underpowered, but it does have 24GB DDR3, so I really can open two dozen Chrome tabs. I try not to.

I'm not thrilled, but everything does work.

If anybody has better ideas, I'm always looking to learn.

Thanks!
 
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Zarathustra[H] said:
Does it still use the old Opera Presto engine?

I tried Opera back before they switched to WebKit, and absolutely hated the experience. It broke like 80% of the webpages I tried to visit.

I consider Pre-WebKit Opera to be one of the worst browsers of all time.
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Says Chromium based.
 
surlyroad said:
When FF went Quantum I really wanted to leave Chrome. But my bookmarks in Chrome are all over the place, barely organized. Obviously, my fault. But I'm actually content with Chrome. I've an Android phone, so I'm in that jungle. Also, my PC is old, and underpowered, but it does have 24GB DDR3, so I really can open two dozen Chrome tabs. I try not to.

I'm not thrilled, but everything does work.

If anybody has better ideas, I'm always looking to learn.

Thanks!
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You can tell FF to import everything from Chrome for you.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-bookmarks-data-another-browser

There's also FF for Android and you can sync your devices with FF Sync.
 
Oh, I know that FF can import from Chrome. But to me, it seems kind of silly to import such unorganized stuff into FF. I kind of want to start over with bookmarks in FF. Also, what about passwords that I've been too lazy to write down?

I would have no problem using FF for Android w/ syncing.

Just a final question: Would Chrome to FF be worth the hassle? Why?

Thanks!
 
surlyroad said:
Oh, I know that FF can import from Chrome. But to me, it seems kind of silly to import such unorganized stuff into FF. I kind of want to start over with bookmarks in FF. Also, what about passwords that I've been too lazy to write down?

I would have no problem using FF for Android w/ syncing.

Just a final question: Would Chrome to FF be worth the hassle? Why?

Thanks!
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The import wizard will move everything, bookmarks, history, passwords and even cookies.

As for the "mess" with bookmarks, you can easily order them in the FF bookmark manger.

Why change? You get to try something new. You like it, great, you don't like it, then it's fine. It won't be much of a hassle, it'll take a couple minutes to download and a few seconds to import data.
 
Zarathustra[H] said:
Does it still use the old Opera Presto engine?

I tried Opera back before they switched to WebKit, and absolutely hated the experience. It broke like 80% of the webpages I tried to visit.

I consider Pre-WebKit Opera to be one of the worst browsers of all time.
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Nope
 
surlyroad said:
Oh, I know that FF can import from Chrome. But to me, it seems kind of silly to import such unorganized stuff into FF. I kind of want to start over with bookmarks in FF. Also, what about passwords that I've been too lazy to write down?

I would have no problem using FF for Android w/ syncing.

Just a final question: Would Chrome to FF be worth the hassle? Why?

Thanks!
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There are several "bookmark organizer" plugins for FF. And the basic bookmark control itself is actually pretty damn good.
The sheer depth of FF plugins is phenomenal and your ability to control your browsing experience is just flat out better than anything you can duplicate with Chrome.
Yes, that level of customization will require a bit of effort to set up.
But once it's done, it's done.
 
While I agree with those who don't like what Google is doing here "very angry" seems like an exaggeration.

If this is enough to make someone "very angry" then they either lead a very blessed existence, or have some sort of anger issues.

I'd settle for "moderately annoyed".
 
Zarathustra[H] said:
While I agree with those who don't like what Google is doing here "very angry" seems like an exaggeration.

If this is enough to make someone "very angry" then they either lead a very blessed existence, or have some sort of anger issues.

I'd settle for "moderately annoyed".
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Agree.

But it IS the era of outrage culture, so it wouldn't surprise me if there were people who were very angry over this.

It's also the era of clickbait headlines though, so who really knows.
 
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