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To improve browser experience all you have to do is use a computer that doesn't suck. The fact that your primary browser is on a tiny phone display is a problem
by superkuh 6y ago
To improve browser experience all you have to do is use a computer that doesn't suck. The fact that your primary browser is on a tiny phone display is a problem with phones, not with browsers. Browser for phones can evolve to match the disabled nature of their device's but lets hope such gimpings don't filter back into actual desktop computers.
- shadowgovt 6y agoI'm actually not thinking about the phone form factor at all. A shorter URL bar in the desktop allows for to take up less horizontal space, which leaves more room for chrome extensions. Also, "use a real computer" is a pretty elitist attitude that misses Google's goals overall. Google is not targeting exclusively users that have desktop machines with multiple cores and graphics accelerator cards. They want to provide internet services and internet access to people whose only portal to the web is a mobile device.
- superkuh 6y ago> misses Google's goals overall. Oh, I'm not missing that. Google's software offerings are now primarily designed for bad computers with bad UI, bad network, and bad energy storage. Because people love those crappy devices and most use them primarily. We both agree. >A shorter URL bar in the desktop allows for to take up less horizontal space, Which really doesn't matter if you're on a desktop computer with an actual monitor. The only reason to do this is more "convergence" BS and thinking phone crutches are required on desktop.
- shadowgovt 6y agoAgree to disagree, because my primary device is a multi-core desktop with a curved monitor over two feet long and I still think the URL bar takes up too much horizontal space in my browser top bar.
- _trampeltier 6y agoThe problem is maybe, a widescreen is bs for most things anyway. In most applications there is so much emtpy space on the left and the right side. I use not just with monitors because of it, they are also height. 43" 4K is nice to work with.
- read_if_gay_ 6y ago> A shorter URL bar in the desktop allows for to take up less horizontal space, which leaves more room for chrome extensions. Are you seriously claiming you need all (or even just more than like 10%) of your 1920+ pixels of screen width for your Chrome extensions?
- shadowgovt 6y agoI have a lot of chrome extensions, yes.
- read_if_gay_ 6y agoTo the point where screen space is becoming tight? You are probably something like 0.001% of users.
- saulrh 6y ago"Spend more money on your computer" is a fine solution for a bay area software engineer. It's not a solution at all for the half of America that would have to sell their car to cover a $400 ER visit.
- nitrogen 6y agoDesktop computers are available waaay cheaper than phones.
- superkuh 6y agoI make under $12k/year. I live in the midwest. I would have to sell my car for a $1k ER visit. It's still cheaper to build a $450 real desktop computer (that lasts decades+) than it is to buy a $800 4 year life gimped smart phone that can't do any productive work any isn't in my control. (And my $20 nokia dumb phone has worked perfectly since 2006 for phone calls/text.)
- shadowgovt 6y agoYou live in the midwest United States; you're not the user we're talking about. We're talking about the person in small-town India who has a Micromax Black Q385 spark 3, 8GB store, 1GB ram, 5.5" screen, which they bought for $50. They also get their Internet access through the cellular equivalent of a drinking straw. (Even still, my personal guess is that this URL bar change isn't about them; it's about the desktop experience).
- superkuh 6y agoI don't think Chrome can run on a machine like that.