Feature Request P2
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ka...@google.com
Seems like a feature request hence marking it as Untriaged to get more inputs from dev team.
Thanks,
Thanks,
pa...@gmail.com
I completely agree and would welcome if Chrome Refresh 2023 could be turned off not by just temporary flags but by configuration options. I would also be happy with command line switches or Group Policy options if they're not worth to put on the UI.
The right menu doesn't even fit on a 1366x768 display. Not fitting on 1MP displays at the standard 100 DPI also means, it will neither fit on higher resolutions with higher DPI. Unnecessary padding wastes vertical real estate that is already scarce on 16:9 displays.
See details:https://issues.chromium.org/issues/330753883
Bookmark icons are hard to distinguish as colorless wireframe icons look more like text instead of graphics.
See details:https://issues.chromium.org/issues/330743875
Bookmark icons are also inconsistent this way.
See details:https://issues.chromium.org/issues/330844348
These UI elements are the ones that cannot be replaced or customized by Chrome extensions either. So please make it customizable instead of forcing hundreds of millions of users to have this poorer UX, introduced by Chrome Refresh 2023.
The Chrome 2023 UI Refresh is generally an aping of particular looks of Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge. Dear Product Owners and UX designers, I hope you're reading this as I would like to let you know that YOU DON'T HAVE TO ape the painful UX of Microsoft Edge, in order to keep Google Chrome mainstream.
The right menu doesn't even fit on a 1366x768 display. Not fitting on 1MP displays at the standard 100 DPI also means, it will neither fit on higher resolutions with higher DPI. Unnecessary padding wastes vertical real estate that is already scarce on 16:9 displays.
See details:
Bookmark icons are hard to distinguish as colorless wireframe icons look more like text instead of graphics.
See details:
Bookmark icons are also inconsistent this way.
See details:
These UI elements are the ones that cannot be replaced or customized by Chrome extensions either. So please make it customizable instead of forcing hundreds of millions of users to have this poorer UX, introduced by Chrome Refresh 2023.
The Chrome 2023 UI Refresh is generally an aping of particular looks of Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge. Dear Product Owners and UX designers, I hope you're reading this as I would like to let you know that YOU DON'T HAVE TO ape the painful UX of Microsoft Edge, in order to keep Google Chrome mainstream.
rj...@gmail.com
Dear Chrome dev team, desktop still exists. This update of yours is a big fat FU to us, the desktop users. It might not have been intended as such, but that's the way it is perceived.
te...@googlemail.com
Bumping this request as an annoyed desktop user. By now I have to look for a solution to revert the UI to its former glory basically anytime an update hits.
fl...@gmail.com
On top of this I don't understand why the font is bold now everywhere in the UI. When everything is in bold, nothing should be.
va...@gmail.com
Ужасное обновление. Еще и выключить его нельзя!
co...@gmail.com
Not just the bookmark bar, but everything made "touch-friendly". The new design is very heavy, with a lot more unused space than even the classic Chrome design with the trapezoid tabs.
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ni...@horsgroup.com
please leave Chrome users rigth not to move to Firefox because of new crappy UI/UX!
cr...@gmail.com
As a guy who hates touchscreens, a regular desktop user, and many other things... THIS NEW BULKY UI IS ABSOLUTE TRASH. I can't even seen full context menus on my ultrawide screen anymore, the menus are freakin huge. WAY too much padding, way too big of a font.
I haven't seen one single person that's happy about this change. We absolutely need a way to change back to the old, compact UI.
I can't understand why Google would feel the need to make their own, enforced UI instead of using the OS's native UI. The OS native menus are sized exactly how I needed to work for my monitor and vision issues.
I haven't seen one single person that's happy about this change. We absolutely need a way to change back to the old, compact UI.
I can't understand why Google would feel the need to make their own, enforced UI instead of using the OS's native UI. The OS native menus are sized exactly how I needed to work for my monitor and vision issues.
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lo...@gmail.com
The workaround, to disable chrome://flags/#customize-chrome-side-panel has stopped working.
Chrome Desktop on Windows Version 125.0.6422.61 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Please Chromium devs, provide a more straightforward solution,
pa...@gmail.com
Passing by to share my feedback that this new design is downright horrendous and should be removed immediately. it does everything wrong in all aspects and at this point I'd rather work on Firefox than deal with the "designers" at google who don't seem to get nothing right anymore.
wb...@gmail.com
bumping this issue all said already in first post and other comments !
Non of the Flags work anymore seems it only gets worse
Non of the Flags work anymore seems it only gets worse
Ap...@icloud.com
Please
to...@gmail.com
Forcing UI design changes on users and making them seek hidden preferences to revert is troublesome. As of today, the option does not even work. I would rather not use a UI that I am extremely dissatisfied with.
dl...@gmail.com
I agree with all here Chrome refresh 2023 not working anymore please give us the option to make bookmarks yellow not black outline, current bookmark layout is terrible
al...@gmail.com
I would like the feature to turn off the Chrome Refresh 2023. I do not like the design.
I'm considering switching to FireFox.
I'm considering switching to FireFox.
se...@gmail.com
chrome 125: add this option --disable-features=CustomizeChromeSidePanel to target in chrome.exe and you are good to go!
dr...@gmail.com
I would like the feature to turn off the Chrome Refresh 2023. I do not like the design.
#20 solution is work for me, but I noticed that some icons cannot be displayed due to the deletion of chrome resource files. I think the better choice is back to M122 and disable update.
#20 solution is work for me, but I noticed that some icons cannot be displayed due to the deletion of chrome resource files. I think the better choice is back to M122 and disable update.
ti...@gmail.com
Couldn't agree more. Sadly the UI designers responsible for this garbage obviously have no clue. But worse their removal of "backward compatibility" options demonstrates that they don't give a sh!t about what users actually want.
va...@gmail.com
More and more I see Microsoft products better refined and likeable. Edge still has yellow folders...
te...@gmail.com
Adding one more voice in the chorus of complaints. I've been disabling the Chrome Tab Refresh 2023 flags since the change started to be introduced. Their vision for how this will work gets worse with each iteration, and they make it harder for me to claw my old experience back at each turn.
Ditching Chrome is no small consideration for me, I use Google everything, I sync across up to a dozen computers, across 3 different Google accounts, I rely heavily on Chrome Remote Desktop, I've built out my home as an all-Google Home ecosystem, I use Google Fi and Google Fiber, I am literally "all in". Nobody else has the same level of fully integrated ecosystem, and I have NO interest in cobbling together my own solution of 20 different products haphazardly stacked on each other. Only bad options.
But I literally use Chrome all day, every day, and I absolutely LOATHE the changes to the UI. Whether it's moving my buttons or making the menu so clunky it doesn't even fit on-screen anymore, it's an irritating and obnoxious downgrade to something that used to work well.
Ditching Chrome is no small consideration for me, I use Google everything, I sync across up to a dozen computers, across 3 different Google accounts, I rely heavily on Chrome Remote Desktop, I've built out my home as an all-Google Home ecosystem, I use Google Fi and Google Fiber, I am literally "all in". Nobody else has the same level of fully integrated ecosystem, and I have NO interest in cobbling together my own solution of 20 different products haphazardly stacked on each other. Only bad options.
But I literally use Chrome all day, every day, and I absolutely LOATHE the changes to the UI. Whether it's moving my buttons or making the menu so clunky it doesn't even fit on-screen anymore, it's an irritating and obnoxious downgrade to something that used to work well.
gl...@gmail.com
Just adding my voice to this chorus. The change to wider spacing and wireframe colorless folders is a regression in the useability of what is otherwise a very good UI. Can we please change it back or give us a tool to make a choice? Failing that perhaps an explanation of why the change was made would be helpful.
Just to be clear we are talking about the bookmark folders, not the folders in the system that can be customized. Look carefully at the referenced before and after screenshots in the original post.
Just to be clear we are talking about the bookmark folders, not the folders in the system that can be customized. Look carefully at the referenced before and after screenshots in the original post.
se...@gmail.com
chrome 126: this doesn't work anymore --disable-features=CustomizeChromeSidePanel, so I have to bear with design now. Bookmarks (topic title) isn't as bad as some other things by the way... hopefully new design will get better after some bug fixes and time.
sl...@gmail.com
The worst UI change. The "new" tabs are awful and make the tabs look clunky. My custom background image looks terrible with the new tabs and messes up the seamless image I had. If you want your users to be happy let us fully customize chrome. I don't know what you were thinking in changing the tabs. None of the flags work. Fix this.
st...@gmail.com
After the latest update, when --disable-features=CustomizeChromeSidePanel is not a thing anymore I lost quite a few bookmarks from the full width of the browser... I KNOW my display didn't shrink. Whos idea was it to add all the freaking round corners, additional padding and just believing that users just wont use that thing besides our keyboard... Do you think we all have touch screens? Even if that would be the thing - removing any option to have ALL the info we want on the screen at the time is just malicious! Get that "manager" Glasses and don't listen to them to just make the UI bigger.
Provide a way to shrink the freaking spacing. And don't get me started on the fact that when you have multiple tabs open - the page title is just gone and only favicon remains - if it even exists that is... I know for a fact that before there was enough space to display at least a few chars - I went to bed, with browser still open all the things I needed nice and visible... Waking up after a reboot caused by a very really important update, right Microsoft - being greeted by the padded and rounded piece of "art" called a Chrome browser is definately not how it was supposed to be!
This is one of the more busiest issues I've seen on here... How is this still just a S2 severity?!
aj...@yahoo.co.uk
I would like to add my voice to the complaints. I really dislike the chrome refresh 2023 and have been turning it off each chance I get. Please give us the options to have normal tabs, normal bookmarks and a normal experience. Please let us turn it off!!
me...@gmail.com
It seems they have removed ALL options to revert this in Chrome 126.
We need to flood them with feedback about this. Everyone go here:https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95315 and send a complaint about this.
We need to flood them with feedback about this. Everyone go here:
ga...@gmail.com
yes, this is absolute garbage now all Chromium-based browsers, Brave, Edge have this horrible spacing, what's going on, seems bookmarks are going out of the window now Literally. All the padding driving me insane, is also an accessibility issue, making you feel dizzy.
Look at all the user feedback!!
Could we please have an option? Option 1 all the white space in the world. Option 2 no spacing compact and neat
Look at all the user feedback!!
Could we please have an option? Option 1 all the white space in the world. Option 2 no spacing compact and neat
nu...@gmail.com
Please, I beg you, give us the option to use some compact UI on desktops or wherever we want. Please. This is so off putting and ugly and unusable. Please.
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Steps to reproduce the problem
Problem Description
The previous UI has a very compact UI, which means you can see a lot of bookmark items within one screen, including bookmarks on horizontal bookmark bar, as well as bookmarks in a dropdown menu (image borrowed fromhttps://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/17bi2yq/ ):
Now, with the new "WebUI Refresh 2023", they became bigger, which makes bookmark bar items have larger padding/margin. The bar now shows significantly fewer bookmarks in one screen:
Previously, you can disable flag #chrome-webui-refresh-2023 to revert to the old behavior. However, starting from M123, this flag no longer works.
Additional Comments
Please provide an option to revert to the old UI/UX, or offer an compact option. Lots of people deliberately make their bookmark bars to show exactly number of shortcuts they want within the whole bar, now it's broken.
Summary
Provide a option to revert back to more compact bookmark bar design
Additional Data
Category: UI
Chrome Channel: Stable
Regression: Yes