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Chrome 69 Arrives With Revamped Design, More Powerful Omnibox, and Better Password Manager (venturebeat.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Google today launched Chrome 69 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Android, and iOS, just a few days after the browser's 10-year anniversary. The release includes a new design, more powerful omnibox, updated password manager, more accurate autofill, plenty of developer-specific changes, and a slew of security improvements. You can update to the latest version now using Chrome's built-in updater, download it directly from google.com/chrome, or grab it from Google Play and Apple's App Store. Further reading: As Chrome turns 10, Google bets on AI and AR, and Google wants to kill the URL.
You forgot THAT feature...
What was the reasoning behind making the tabs taller, but the text still the same size on them? It feels like I lost a little browsing real estate.
Courage.
Splain to me how the interweb can work without a url. Sure you can go to having people remember an IP address again because that worked so well last time right... Not to mention site hosting becomes harder as they can no longer share an IP address. Unless you redesigned web servers and clients making us have to give a url to the client to pass to the server... Hey wait isn't that how it works now?
Odd that the OS that showcases Chrome always seems to be a version or two behind.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Bad news for me, I have 110% custom scaling in Windows and after this update all text in Chrome is blurry. Yayyy.
Modern and shit except it's now painfully difficult to understand which tab is actually active.
to give google keywords I think are important so they can sell the information to others so they can bug me when I do not want to be hassled. No wonder I did not know what the original omnibox was.
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Just my 2 cents
Love the vomit inducing amount of childishness in the video, intended to mask the vile nature of this corporate entity
Have you interacted with the "average" person lately? A good portion of the internet population has the IQ of a seven year old, and THAT is who this infomercial is targeted towards.
--- Keep the choice with the user..
This is the wrong article, and the article that does make the claim that Google wants to get rid of URLs in the headline has a misleading headline. The summary makes it plain that Google wants something to replace current HTTP:// style URLs because they're cryptic and easy to create misleading versions of. They're not proposing you use IP address (where the hell did you get that from?)
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
The curve trend comes and goes.
So with the Old "GUI" Which was just text mode, Everything was flat because wasting a space would be impossible to work.
Then these text modes went to 50 row displays text modes, this gave enough room for buttons to have boxes with beveled appearances to them.
After a while when they switched to early GUI they really slowed the system down, so they didn't waste too much processing in making items rounded or beveled. Just because the extra processing power to draw them.
Then as speed got up (386 days) Icon Bevels became popular, with some curving (normally just a pixel removed from the edge. Because the resolution is still low enough to see the difference, and no more then 2 pixels on the border for the bevels.
Buttons have gotten fancier, and more curved up to (windows XP and 7) as screen resolutions have increases, and offloaded video processing made it possible to look nice.
Then by windows 8 they went flat again. Why? well they were trying to make Windows 8 work on touch displays, with low resolution or small screens. So they got rid of the extra display.
Now today with 4k displays and 2k display on devices as small a a phone, they can afford to get curvy again.
Now an interface that is fully efficient for using up space, is usually a mess. because it is just a wall of content, we like empty space to help separate ideas. But just as long as technology permits.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
password manager? does giving a market data vacuum cleaner company your sites and log in credentials provide any real value to you. Reminds me of Facebook asking banks for access to their users banking information and accounts to make things easier for Facebook users!! Right!!
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Just my 2 cents
"... and Improved Spying! You forgot THAT feature..."
A long time ago, I installed the Google Chrome browser. It installed 3 system services. I discovered that using the free SysInternals Process Explorer. Chrome back then took control over computers.
Does Chrome still install 3 system services? Is Chrome spyware?
I recommend Microsoft's SysInternals. There are numerous helpful programs written by one of the best programmers ever connected with Microsoft, Mark Russinovich. (He is now CTO of Microsoft Azure, which is having major problems today.)
On the day our beloved folk hero, Servalan (aka Jaqueline Pearce) died. The fact that she was notoriously sexy in her youth in no way relates to the version number.
Seriously, a revamped design? You're infinitely better off with a modular design and a scripted UI. That way, you can upgrade modules independently and the design is whatever the user wants.
Servalan, I think, would have approved.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
On this topic, check tflow's talk on 34c3:
lecture: Uncovering British spies’ web of sockpuppet social media personas
I go in to task manager and what do I see 10 chrome tasks running ok I am sure I can maybe hunt down a configuration setting telling chrome how many tasks they can start but why should I need to.
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Have not looked in to it but maybe they are preparing to open all links in a page in background browsers so they can appear fast?
Did I ask for that do I care?
Just my 2 cents
Vertically narrow controls are harder to hit reliably with a finger on a 2-in-1 laptop's touch screen.
They're not proposing you use IP address (where the hell did you get that from?)
I'm guessing he got it from "Google wants to kill the URL".
1 - Without a URL, you're limited to IP addresses. On an IP network, anything that maps to or substitutes for IP addresses is effectively a URL. Thus, if you're killing the URL, your only option for accessing shit is via its actual address, port, and protocol.
2 - Did you all give up on the abortion that was forcing people to say URI instead of URL? I hope so!
The summary makes it plain that Google wants something to replace current HTTP:// style URLs because they're cryptic and easy to create misleading versions of.
I imagine Google will have Chrome (and encourage other browsers to) send the URLs to Google where they will be logged, and perhaps analyzed and cleaned up, and a token will be sent back to the browser with information for the browser to use, like the URL and display name... This will allow Google to track even more users, their information and browsing habits. I'll add my "No thanks" to the already long list of others who don't want this.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Thank you for articulating my point better than I could.
I hadnt saw that article when I posted this but it says so in the summary so not really off topic. And sexconker helped define my brain thought, so read his post to see what I meant.
Both major third-party evergreen web browsers (Chrome and Firefox) install a service to download and apply security updates. If the current user were an administrator, the browser could use a service-free update flow, in which an update is installed after the user has closed the browser. But if the current user is not an administrator, and no administrator is immediately available to enter the elevation password, a service-free update cannot complete.
I'm half surprised Google didn't reset all my privacy settings 'by accident (of course)' in this big update.
That said, the tab shape at the top doesn't seem so bad.
And it no longer sucks. Twitter media don't show up, but who uses Twitter anyway.
Still no vertical tabs by the looks of it. I'll stick with Vivaldi as my daily driver I think.