• Google Chrome turns 10 and gets a redesign to celebrate
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Question, when Firefox Quantum came out they made a big deal about how FF is now 30 percent faster than Chrome. Is that still the case?
The Great Suspender there's this but it's just the nature of modern browser sandboxing. fresh launches without tabs/extensions are a p. bad way to look at this tbh
I like it.
Great now it's just as ugly as the new Gmail and Android 9
I think Material 2.0 is a really nice upgrade. It's clean, has plenty of personality relating to the Google brand and has great structural hierarchy.
Oh man I forgot about this https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/images/med/3.jpg I don't know how many FP'ers are old enough to remember this, but there was in fact a time where if your browser was doing something, it would actually get stuck for awhile. And possibly even crash. Having a billion tabs open simply didn't happen because your browser would inevitably crash or you simply ran out of memory. Or you were using IE6 and wtf is a tab lmao
https://i.imgur.com/6x5y9Jj.png Fuck me this is hideous, how do I make it look like the OP
Step one, close all of those fucking tabs.
Modern material design is far from garbage. It's not the best thing ever but it is very functional and is really well documented.
The manila folder tabs were so iconic, why would they do this?
Ironically though I've had way more problems with Chrome freezing/getting stuck/even crashing windows entirely than any other browser. The design intent was good, but I don't think I'd say they succeeded
Definitely not perfect, but your browser crashing was the norm back then. It was an improvement. Some of it also has to do with browsers being more bloated than they were back then. Also Firefox has come a long way since then, partially because of Chrome, so ultimately, it was a net improvement.
Material Design has a number of different implementations since it's not a strict guideline. Google will not remove any products for breaking it. However they do their best to teach it, alongside providing platforms that have by far some of the worst implementations of it I've ever seen Remember when youtube gaming looked like this https://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/dam/assets/150612135239-game-page-desktop-780x439.png Same goes for the polymer update to youtube https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1755/627c0ee6-d5ee-487b-9596-5ae9867a15c5/image.png wickedplayer oof MD is still fundamentally better than anything microsoft have tried to push in the last six years due to the sheer power they have over the market, dedication to the platform and their focus on allowing developers to have critical documentation. But even as someone who actually has a certification in graphics, many implementations irk me greatly
When I moved to chrome from opera back in the day it was a major downgrade though in terms of reliability. The only reason I moved was because of compatibility issues with many websites. There's definitely a lot of things that Chrome is doing in terms of pushing browser technology, I'm definitely not denying that, I've just never seen it as "stable"
I mean personally, I've never had that many issues with it. Usually when I did it was a misbehaving plugin, my downloads folder got too large (don't ask how I know) or I had general Windows problems. You mentioned crashing the entire OS, which means you have actual Windows problems, a driver issue or defective hardware. Bad programs should never ever crash an NT based OS.
IIRC putting the tabs at the top and not allowing toolbars was also revolutionary/controversial at the time
Also your address bar also being search. I both hated and loved the idea. It made browsing fairly intuitive. But it made typing local host names really fucking annoying.
chrome://flags set anything marked material to old or disabled
Scheiße, the mobile version is even worse. It looks like an iPhone 5.
As someone who used Chrome from IE8's launch up until Firefox 57 I say good god what the hell is this redesign. I remember when the Chrome Store came about in version 8 and suddenly extensions where everywhere. Having a Chromebook when they blew up for schools was kinda neat. Nowadays they're kinda gross to me. Not sure why.
Defective hardware isn't entirely impossible, I did make the horrific mistake of buying an msi laptop a bit over 2 years ago. I didn't research enough to know it came with the lurking monster that is optimus (it seems like virtually all msi laptops do) which causes no end of issues. That being said, regardless of hardware problems it still only ever crashes with Chrome for whatever reason
its 2018 and browser makers don't have an easy way to customize the interface yet... smh take a page from World of Warcraft for once imo
Tried it The whole top bar was blue bc of Windows 10 settings it also made youtube videos smaller for some reason
Well if you're gonna download shit off the internet like in world of warcraft, firefox lets you use CSS to change everything. e.g.
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I'm speaking of the graphic design documentation, which is by far one of the best and most thorough guideilnes out there. Mobile interfaces are a shitshow of mediocrity and poor choices, but material design guidelines do not include some "pretty garbo components", they're just fine there's not even that much of note in it, apart from the really annoying whimsical manner with which they describe drop shadow logic.
I dunno what they did, but this redesign is fucking over my PC's performance when watching Netflix. Stutters like crazy.
Chrome should be avoided for netflix anyway, since it's limited to 720p. Use the app or Edge.
There never is.
New design actually decreases how much web content I can view on Mac, I've recently converted over to safari just because of how speedy it is (tho it lacks extensions)
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