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No, a brick wall doesn't stare at you blankly. Nor does it argue back arrogantly and defy you that whatever Google wants is best.
by Endy 8y ago
No, a brick wall doesn't stare at you blankly. Nor does it argue back arrogantly and defy you that whatever Google wants is best.
- ethbro 8y agoI stopped using Chrome when I wanted to have downloads automatically save to the desktop (no dialog). Turned out, there was a 2 year old open bug on the missing feature, in which Google UX engineers repeatedly argued allowing the save location to be changed was counter to the desired user experience. I switched to Firefox the next day and haven't touched Chrome since.
- Stratoscope 8y agoWas that a long time ago? Chrome has supported the option of a fixed download location for many years. I don't remember it ever not having that option, in all the time I've used it.
- ethbro 8y agoCorrection: I think it was the ability to turn off the in-window "downloaded file bar" pop-up, which could(?) only be dismissed by manually closing it. There are a lot of different bug reports out there asking for a flag, and apparently the Chrome team added one, then disabled it a few patches latter. I forget what I was doing at the time (downloading PDFs for a uni course?). But it was a pain in the ass, of dubious utility anyway, and the cavalier UX attitude of "father knows best" left a really bad taste. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=8966 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=8966
- woah 8y agoThey can't just put in every random feature that anyone shows up and suggests.
- koolba 8y agoThey do seem to put a lot of not so random features that no users have asked for.
- chiefalchemist 8y agoAlso, eventually brink walls break down. Google on the other hand doubles down the depth and breadth of its overreach.