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> I actually wouldn't mind if the URL bar was replaced with a breadcrumb bar on some sites ... Which sites? Anyway, almost everyone else would mind. Especial
by Jedd 6y ago
> I actually wouldn't mind if the URL bar was replaced with a breadcrumb bar on some sites ...
Which sites?
Anyway, almost everyone else would mind. Especially if there was no option to revert to normal behaviour.
> It could then work like in Explorer in Windows 10, ...
That sounds like the worst of both worlds. If people want Explorer in Windows 10 behaviour - can't they just run Explorer in Windows 10?
If people want Chrome as it was yesterday, they've basically got no option now.
> But URLs aren't necessarily always the best solution for navigation.
The Chromium devs demonstrated their lack of interest in being able to navigate via URL / location bar a half decade ago when they changed the default on all operating systems to be single-click in location bar to 'select the whole address'.
I'm beginning to think they are not our friends.
- andrewprock 6y agoThe option they have is Firefox
- chrismorgan 6y agoNote this is talking about Explorer, more recently named File Explorer, rather than Internet Explorer, the browser.
- Jedd 6y agoArgh, of course. My mistake. I typically run up breadcrumbkiller as part of any Microsoft Windows desktop build, so I rarely see that configuration for long.
- satyrnein 6y agoFor myself (and I'd wager most people), I want to clear the URL and go to a totally different URL much more often than I want to manually manipulate the URL I'm currently on, so I like the change in default. Many casual users probably didn't even know a quick way to select the whole URL when it wasn't the default.