Why Chrome devs ruining bookmarks interface everyone already used to?
For last few months chrome devs surely been pushing some disgusting updates to UI. Among other rather mildly annoying changes that all can be described as "just add padding everywhere" there was one most useless one. They changed that small window that pops up when you hit star button to bookmark page. In the past it was quite useful right after creating bookmark you could easily choose folder, edit URL or hit remove if you done bookmark by mistake. Now Edit button hidden behind button that looks like link that opens folder selection and only there you can rewrite URL (which was insanely useful when you wanted to save some site but erase path to current page and GET parameters). Instead new Edit button takes you to another simplified version of old bookmark window but again without way to directly edit URL but at least Remove button present there (so now if you created bookmark by mistake it's two clicks instead of one to remove it).
I understand this is just my small rant and even other browsers like Firefox has same interface where you can't edit URL right away easily, but even on Firefox with it's user customizability I managed to add URL field that works just fine. The only thing I'm sincerely confused about is why they do this to us. Is someone asked for that so much? Is it ergonomic? Is it about accessibility? My experience with Chrome for last year looks like this: They made some downgrade -> You find out about it and search for ways to disable that downgrade -> You find some chrome://flags that does what you want -> They deprecate and then remove that flag with next updates. Maybe it's so called enshitiffication on purpose, maybe they try to push their new sidebar for some reason, I don't know. I'm just so disappointed with updates recently that wanted to rant about that somewhere and I've already sent tons of issues reports to chrome about it.
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Might be worth taking a look at Firefox. Not sure I would consider myself a power user, but it's been good to me the last couple years.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/
> For last few months chrome devs surely been pushing some disgusting updates to UI.
In order to maintain their employment, UI designers have to make changes and push out those changes. If they stopped making and pushing any changes, eventually some bean counter from accounting would ask "why are we paying all these UI developers to do nothing".
Accordingly, you get changes just for the sake of change, all so that the UI designers can continue to receive their paychecks.
In order to maintain their employment, UI designers have to make changes and push out those changes. If they stopped making and pushing any changes, eventually some bean counter from accounting would ask "why are we paying all these UI developers to do nothing".
Accordingly, you get changes just for the sake of change, all so that the UI designers can continue to receive their paychecks.
Haha, my post from the Firefox Australis days remains accurate:
https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/24di8y/open_discus...
https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/24di8y/open_discus...