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> The UX of moving what I'm looking at instantly under click is very unpleasant too, Could you expand on this? What are you referring to?

rhizome 8y ago
I don't know if it's the same thing, but I'll bite: it's absolutely maddening to edit or select part of a URL. Click in the address bar and the entire address is selected, then you click on any part of it to either select a part or to place your cursor in order to add to it, after which Chrome appears to first shift the entire URL to the right in order to show the protocol, then it places the cursor within the shifted URL under your pointer. This causes (attempted) selections to be established from some other place in the URL than the user intended.
- archon810 8y ago
  Yes, it's this, and it's an absolutely infuriating change.
- cottsak 8y ago
  ugh!!!!! this is killing me
  - cottsak 8y ago
    Fixed in a week (v69.0.3497.92)! Nice one Chrome
- Exuma 8y ago
  chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-scheme-and-subdomains
  - rhizome 8y ago
    This is about Google having a fundamental weakness in product management and UX, giving me the equivalent of a Windows Registry setting to change is not helping, practical as it may be.
- Already__Taken 8y ago
  Its weird too because chrome invented to UX when closing lots of tabs not to reflow the browser UI but keep placing their close X under the mouse until you move away. So its like they understood this once and have forgotten.
  - rhizome 8y ago
    Have you used the latest Chrome with the redesign? The tab's X no longer has any hover effects, or doesn't seem to. After the last few days of wondering about this, I see now that hovering over the X makes is ~5% darker.
    - Already__Taken 8y ago
      Oh yeh I looked at the X on the current tab and didn't agree. The close X on background tabs hover is basically indistinguishable.
Already__Taken 8y ago
Just go try to change the hackernews url right now to .co.uk from .com you'll see.

rhizome 8y ago

I don't know if it's the same thing, but I'll bite: it's absolutely maddening to edit or select part of a URL. Click in the address bar and the entire address is selected, then you click on any part of it to either select a part or to place your cursor in order to add to it, after which Chrome appears to first shift the entire URL to the right in order to show the protocol, then it places the cursor within the shifted URL under your pointer. This causes (attempted) selections to be established from some other place in the URL than the user intended.

archon810 8y ago
Yes, it's this, and it's an absolutely infuriating change.
cottsak 8y ago
ugh!!!!! this is killing me
- cottsak 8y ago
  Fixed in a week (v69.0.3497.92)! Nice one Chrome
Exuma 8y ago
chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-scheme-and-subdomains
- rhizome 8y ago
  This is about Google having a fundamental weakness in product management and UX, giving me the equivalent of a Windows Registry setting to change is not helping, practical as it may be.
Already__Taken 8y ago
Its weird too because chrome invented to UX when closing lots of tabs not to reflow the browser UI but keep placing their close X under the mouse until you move away. So its like they understood this once and have forgotten.
- rhizome 8y ago
  Have you used the latest Chrome with the redesign? The tab's X no longer has any hover effects, or doesn't seem to. After the last few days of wondering about this, I see now that hovering over the X makes is ~5% darker.
  - Already__Taken 8y ago
    Oh yeh I looked at the X on the current tab and didn't agree. The close X on background tabs hover is basically indistinguishable.

Already__Taken 8y ago

Just go try to change the hackernews url right now to .co.uk from .com you'll see.