I had a problem on my work computer with the previous update where everything went slightly more pink than it should have been. It was most noticeable on light grey, such as the default Qt3 background.
Handily that one was possible to fix with a config option change.
You can go back to the old look in chrome://flags, search for layout.
Yes, thanks. The light-gray-on-slightly-different-light-gray look was really tough to parse.
Thanks stussers.
Using the flags change I have made my work chrome feels like a normal program again and not oversized and halfwitted.
So many settings, but I cannot figure which one would turn Chrome back to an usuable browser like it was in its previous version on my Mac. Even navigating those flags, it’s just a nightmarish slog. Google made me use Safari!
I originally set it back to the old UI too, but in the end stuck with the new one. I basically think it’s fine. Very subjective of course.
I ended up installing a slightly darker theme for the UI. The new default was way too bright for these tired eyes.
Doesn’t seem a lot different to me other than being rounder.
Which will no doubt be quietly patched out in the future, like all the other cool flag settings.
It will probably be patched out at some point, yes.
This is where I’m at.
What’s the issue with the tabs? The new UI doesn’t seem that different to me. Tabs that don’t have focus are all background grey, but are also nicely separated by the vertical lines and icons.
Doesn’t seem that hard to distinguish them or select them. And I’m speaking as a varifocal wearing nearly 50 year old. :)
I like the new rounded UI. Looks neat on mobile.
I like the roundiness, but my eyes find it more difficult to distinguish between tabs with the new look. The old one is less clean, but easier to parse at a glance.
So it’s mostly the lack of space at the top. I guess I can see that. I rarely have a lot of tabs open and never that many. I didn’t even notice the difference until you showed that.
Ha! @Skipper and you are giving me flashbacks of stepping into my kids’ rooms and finding this kind of scene.
May I interest you in a little bit of browser bar spring cleaning? :)
No pizza boxes? No standing pools of liquid? Looks good to me.
Ha! My actual boys would be more along those lines. And so many random bits of cutlery along with the cans and wrappers hidden under the clothes.
The 20 year olds have started getting their act together. The 16 year old is still cultivating the mess.
I didn’t want to have to post anything too lifelike. It would make other parents who have gone through that sad.
My eye will start to twitch at ten tabs. I am pretty sure I get anxious when there are seven so I quickly finish up and close those before it’s too late!
That’s my work laptop. It does look bad, but roughly from left to right, pined sites (email, utilities,) personal tabs like gaming and QT3, sites for work monitoring, anywhere from 5-10 tabs looking up issues on a problem or solutions, etc, and then random shit at the end.
There is a method to the madness. At home, I’ll only have 5-10 tabs, tops on my gaming laptop.
I’ve mentioned a few times here but I use The Great Suspender, which basically puts those tabs to sleep, saves the spot I was in and removes them from memory. So I just have to click on them to make them active again. I think that may be the difference with @krayzkrok’s tabs looking “active” while any that I haven’t actively used within about 5 minutes look dimmed.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspender/klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg?hl=en
