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Looks like they've copied Firefox's download design -- which is a significant improvement. Chrome's strangely tall bottom downloads bar always confused me and s

Looks like they've copied Firefox's download design -- which is a significant improvement. Chrome's strangely tall bottom downloads bar always confused me and seemed a waste of space.

ChrisArchitect 3y ago
Strangely tall yeah but at least I knew something was happening down there and was reminded later when there was completed downloads. A few times today already I forgot that was up there and some downloads had completed. It's small and out of the way but then out of mind? It's fresh and modern feeling but I suppose it's the automatic dismissal that throws me off.
- prmoustache 3y ago
  If you don't remember your own downloads, it means you don't really need them in the first place atmo.
  - capableweb 3y ago
    Or, you started a big download of something you need to continue a specific task, but it takes long time so you continue with something else in the meantime, and promptly forget about keeping track of the download after a while.
    - prmoustache 3y ago
      But the end result is the same. If you forgot about it, it means you don't need to interact with it. It is like things that we buy, put in storage and discover several months/years later when cleaning/moving. These are things we didn't need in the first place.
- melagonster 3y ago
  I like this, too. I can directly click big button to open file or get a promise that it will automatically open after finish download. now I need find it from some small icons.
2Gkashmiri 3y ago
ooo.... looks to me the first time something firefox did first and chrome copied it. usually its the other way around with firefox bastardizing chrome features just to appease "it had to be done"
- asadotzler 3y ago
  Pretty much every Chrome feature is a rip-off from Firefox, IE, or Netscape before so there's that.
  - qwertfisch 3y ago
    The combined address/search bar was presented by Chrome first iirc. Maybe IE was earlier? I cannot remember, never used it (first Netscape, then Mozilla, then Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox).
AraceliHarker 3y ago
Safari is first.
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Looks like they've copied Firefox's download design -- which is a significant improvement. Chrome's strangely tall bottom downloads bar always confused me and seemed a waste of space.

ChrisArchitect 3y ago

Strangely tall yeah but at least I knew something was happening down there and was reminded later when there was completed downloads. A few times today already I forgot that was up there and some downloads had completed. It's small and out of the way but then out of mind? It's fresh and modern feeling but I suppose it's the automatic dismissal that throws me off.

prmoustache 3y ago
If you don't remember your own downloads, it means you don't really need them in the first place atmo.
- capableweb 3y ago
  Or, you started a big download of something you need to continue a specific task, but it takes long time so you continue with something else in the meantime, and promptly forget about keeping track of the download after a while.
  - prmoustache 3y ago
    But the end result is the same. If you forgot about it, it means you don't need to interact with it. It is like things that we buy, put in storage and discover several months/years later when cleaning/moving. These are things we didn't need in the first place.
melagonster 3y ago
I like this, too. I can directly click big button to open file or get a promise that it will automatically open after finish download. now I need find it from some small icons.

2Gkashmiri 3y ago

ooo.... looks to me the first time something firefox did first and chrome copied it. usually its the other way around with firefox bastardizing chrome features just to appease "it had to be done"

asadotzler 3y ago
Pretty much every Chrome feature is a rip-off from Firefox, IE, or Netscape before so there's that.
- qwertfisch 3y ago
  The combined address/search bar was presented by Chrome first iirc. Maybe IE was earlier? I cannot remember, never used it (first Netscape, then Mozilla, then Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox).

AraceliHarker 3y ago

Safari is first.

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