When I read this I was just astounded by the self-righteous, entitled tone as if the person who filed this knows (yes, "knows", not "believes" or "prefers") tha

When I read this I was just astounded by the self-righteous, entitled tone as if the person who filed this knows (yes, "knows", not "believes" or "prefers") that the download bar is an annoying, unnecessary, undesirable feature that the Chrome team must fix immediately. It's not the request itself that bothers me but the tone of it. I use Chrome on 4 very different machines. A 10-11" Xubuntu laptop, 11.6" MacBook Air, 20" iMac, and a dual 17" monitor Win7 machine. On each computer I feel a bit differently about the download bar. On the MBA and iMac I love it, on the Win7 machine I'm indifferent to it (I actually have a love/hate relationship with it on that one) and on my Xubuntu "netbook" I consider it a necessary evil. So I feel both ways about the download bar but I would never call for its end because it's far more helpful than not. Its really not difficult or at all time consuming to close it out. And yeah, I totally agree that it would be a good idea to have the option to not show it. Notice I said "it'd be a good idea" and not "there should be that option". If I were the guy on the Chrome team that read this I'd consider it but not make it a priority simply because it sounds like entitled user complaining which the web is so chock full of, especially when users get something free. Sometimes I really hate users. I mean, lots of people like me need them to succeed with our startups but god damn it if they don't just piss you off to no end sometimes. There's a big problem with users not being able to tell the difference between what they'd like to have and what they need to have. Often it's a real fine line. Yes we should give the users what they want within reason (the customer is always right and all that) but at what cost? My web browser needs to allow me to download files. I would like for it not to clutter up my screen with another window made active by default. Solution? Download bar. Great! But now I need the download bar to just go away because it takes up too much screen space. Or do I? Maybe what I really need is a bigger monitor or to close the bar when it shows itself. Is it an annoyance? Yeah. Is my demand more important than the desires of other users if they're happy with the download bar? No. Unless I'm the only user. It really seems like lots of users really believe they're the only users. It's like every user on the web is an only child or something that's been accustomed to being served everything they want all their lives at the expensive of others' needs. To be clear, and to repeat it again, I really do think the option to always hide the download bar would be a great thing for users and it'd even help me! It's just that I've seen so many entitled attitudes from users, my own clients, and others this past year and a half that it gets to me bad and I think a lot of people can relate. There's a way to get attention and there's a way to get the wrong kind of attention. You know, Chromium is open source. Maybe someone who wants it bad enough will fork it, add the functionality mentioned, and submit the changes back to Google. Who knows, maybe the next auto-update will surprise us with this new feature.