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Google Is Testing a New Chrome UI (bleepingcomputer.com)
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.
So all of Mozilla's work to turn Firefox into a Chromeclone was for notting?
I hope it resembles Classic Firefox. Maybe then Mozilla will finally give its users what they really want (albeit for all the wrong reasons).
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
For those that didn't see TFA, they're not doing a massive overhaul. They've changed the "angled" edges of the tabs at the top to be more square with rounded corners instead. That's it. Nothing else has changed. This is hardly even worth a mention. It is a very VERY minor UI adjustment at best. Then again, when Google changed their logo to fix the kerning by 1 pixel, that was enough to warrant an article here, too...
Can you please elaborate? I'm using it right now.
You should start by reading chrome privacy whitepaper and controlling privacy policy.
Next I dare you to open chrome and browse to any site anywhere including exclusively local servers on your own network without chrome calling home to Google. It is impossible to prevent no matter how carefully browser is configured.
They are uniquely vindictive about it. Much of it uses primary google.com domain used by search engine for data collection without any specific subdomains so it isn't even possible to blacklist by traditional means unless you never intend on using Google search engine.
FFS even data about autocomplete fields are sent to Google. Chrome is a never ending series of ridiculous excuses to stalk everything the end user does that can't be stopped no matter what no matter how careful the user is to adjust privacy settings. Chrome intentionally engineered to violate the users privacy in every way possible.