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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.
Modern and shit except it's now painfully difficult to understand which tab is actually active.
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.
It does mean you're less likely to use the same password or handful of passwords for every site you use.
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Vertically narrow controls are harder to hit reliably with a finger on a 2-in-1 laptop's touch screen.
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.