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Chrome 65 Arrives With Material Design Extensions Page, New Developer Features (venturebeat.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the new-and-improved dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: Google today launched Chrome 65 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Additions in this release include Material Design changes and new developer features. You can update to the latest version now using the browser's built-in silent updater or download it directly from google.com/chrome. Chrome 65 comes with a few visual changes. The most obvious is related to Google's Material Design mantra. The extensions page has been completely revamped to follow it. Next up, Chrome 65 replaces the Email Page Location link in Chrome for Mac's File menu with a Share submenu. As you might expect, Mac users can use this submenu to share the URL of a current tab via installed macOS Share Extensions. Speaking of Macs, Chrome 65 is also the last release for OS X 10.9 users. Chrome 66 will require OS X 10.10 or later. Moving on to developer features, Chrome 65 includes the CSS Paint API, which allows developers to programmatically generate an image, and the Server Timing API, which allows web servers to provide performance timing information via HTTP headers.

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  1. Stupid ugly jony ived shit for design by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    When will this epoch of stupid retarded hacks called "designs" be over?

  2. 'Material Design' = 'We don't know how to design' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Material Design is hideous, unintuitive crap. The fact that one of the biggest companies in the world hasn't got a clue on user interface design speaks volumes about the state of modern computing. Go and see how many user INTERFACE design jobs for PC (or even Apple) software companies there are - virtually none - because most people haven't got a clue about interface design, and don't understand what they are doing.
    Hence Windows 10, 'flat' design, Windows 8, 'The Ribbon', Android (utterly awful user interface with virtually no affordance and virtually no visual feedback to anything you do, and just plain designed wrong), and so on.

  3. Tablet devices by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And still it does not allow a user to set the "use the desktop site" as a permanent setting for every page. So when you use Chrome on a tablet with a decent sized screen you still get the crappy mobile pages until you go into settings for every single page visited and change the setting to use the desktop site.

    Exactly how hard is it to make that setting apply globally and not page by page?

  4. change == good by gDLL · · Score: 0, Insightful

    B'cos change means good automatically, right ? You must have liked windows 8....