Ben Tossell

New Google Chrome - New look and big update for their 10th birthday 🎂

Chrome is getting a new look today, 10 years after Google’s browser first launched. The new design includes rounded shapes and tabs, a fresh color palette, and updated icons. Google is updating the whole of Chrome to include this new user interface, and altering prompts, menus, and URLs in the address bar to match the new design.

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Nenek
Now, my +40 opened tabs look awful 😂
Michael
@daniel_nenek_ I am guessing that the answer is likely to be what I’m taking this comment to mean, but, any chance that they’ve gone ahead and made a UI change or at the very least perhaps a configurable preference option to NOT make the browser borderline unusable when I’ve got more than ~20 tabs open? I’ve never understood *why* the Chrome desktop app devs weirdly chose to make each tab in the tab bar shrink to a progressively smaller size. Surely we can’t be the only ones who have such browsing habits...even if it does tend to place an increased workload on your machine (especially taxing the hell out of RAM & eating up disk space with cache like mad). Sure, there’s available extensions like “OneTab” or more appropriately, “The Great Suspenders” which can mitigate these issues to a significant degree when you’ve got 4-5 windows of Chrome open, 350-400 tabs total as I admittedly often do...but the basic user experience even running far fewer open tabs in a singular window leaves MUCH to be desired. Makes no sense to me that the default (actually, the ONLY, unless I’m unaware) behavior in these situations is to leave you with a mess of unidentifiable individual tabs denoted by their singular action button to close them; you don’t even see any of the page title nor a favicon. IDK, perhaps I’m being unreasonably annoyed by this but it really irks me. Bugs me to the same extent that my strange tab-crazy browsing habits seem to legitimately annoy the hell out of like 30% of people when they notice it.
Dave Poly
My browser hasn't updated yet but after reading these reviews/comments I'm not sure I want it to? 🤔
Ricki Y. HAN

It's hard tell which host I was browsing since the Chrome team turn on this feature: chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-scheme-and-subdomains

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tell me about it

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WHY Omnibox UI Hide Steady-State URL Scheme and Trivial Subdomains

Yegor Mytrofanov
Good job, Joel! Happy for you dude!
Vighnesh S S Sable
It's amazing I am excited to use it with massive curve design and 18:9 with notch
Emmanuel Lemor

Never been a huge fan of Chrome due to it's hoggish nature, lack of good privacy, sub-par Inspect Element feature, etc... [should I mention that it updates itself when it wants to - it hadn't updated my Chrome since v59 and claimed that there were no updates when I tried forcing it to].

This feels like a version update to make some noise around it's 10yr anniversary but not really something that is going to make that big a difference in the world of browsers...

Wish Google would truly try to innovate and rethink browsing ENTIRELY like Opera did with their concept browser: Opera Neon

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I guess we could it call it something new

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When Show Bookmarks Bar is on, visual white gutter height not adjusted - doesn't seem so polished

Lori Orchow

It's about time it is well-rounded LOL

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Looks snazzier

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Slow at times

Siranush Hovhannisyan
cool
Gezim Hoxha
I’ve been a safari loyalist and launched chrome yesterday for first time in a while. I was pleasantly surprised by the speed and clean look. It beat Firefox and Safari. It’s possible it just felt faster since the loading of pages is vastly different. Safari seems to like to load the whole page before showing you much.
Melissa Grody
I haven't used it much yet but now it's harder for me to differentiate between different "people". I use different accounts and it used to show the names on the top right corner. Now it just shows a photo. I'm not sure where it's pulling that photo from since it doesn't match the image I chose in settings. Also, if you download a doc and use the bar at the bottom to move multiple copies into backups, etc, you can't do that any more. It moves the entire file, just as though you were in the folder itself. I'm undecided on whether or not it makes things easier to find in my tab hoarding. And it looks like the memory sucking still happens. (which admittedly I do not help by tab hoarding)