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Google Is Testing a New Chrome UI (bleepingcomputer.com)

Posted by msmash on from the up-next dept.

Catalin Cimpanu, writing for BleepingComputer: Google engineers have rolled out a new Chrome user interface (UI). Work on the new Refresh UI has been underway since last year, Bleeping Computer has learned. The new UI is in early testing stages, and only available via the Google Chrome Canary distribution, a version of the Chrome browser used as a testing playground. Users who are interested in giving the new UI a spin must install Chrome Canary, and then access chrome://flags, a section that contains various experimental options not included in Chrome's default settings section.

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  1. Hope It Resembles Classic Firefox by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I hope it resembles Classic Firefox. Maybe then Mozilla will finally give its users what they really want (albeit for all the wrong reasons).

  2. Re:Why is this still a thing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Material Design aka how to make everything baffling to use.

    In a time when most of us have massive monitors at ridiculous resolutions and tons of space to work with UX designers are trying to bury things under impenetrable icons and flat slabs.

    Minimalism works, but only in the context of functionality, it's why a radio dial used to work so well; power, volume, maybe even station selection in one tactile interface? Classic.

    A big empty box with esoteric iconography? No. What?

    "People should learn while using" ... maybe BUT

    Monkey Brain: Fire burn, squiggly line button ... might be fire ... not risk