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I despise this new trend, and it kills me that Google seems to be embracing it more and more. Google Groups is the worst offender for me - it completely breaks
by chimeracoder 14y ago
I despise this new trend, and it kills me that Google seems to be embracing it more and more.
Google Groups is the worst offender for me - it completely breaks my browser's keybindings for going backwards, so every time I'm, eg. searching Googling a bug and open a mailing list archive to find an answer to a bug, I inevitably end up collapsing the thread each and every time, when what I really want is just to go back to the search results. I don't want every Google website to have its own tiling window manager within the page - that's what my OS is for!
Of course, they have no intention of fixing this, it seems. Disabling Javascript just yields an error message - 'Please turn on Javascript to view this page'.
- Nux 14y agoUhh, but it's so shiny!1 Why u not like it?? http://img.nux.ro/n9H-fsckblogspot.png http://img.nux.ro/n9H-fsckblogspot.png It doesn't matter. I know already what it's about: more ways to get locked-in the "google-verse".
- anigbrowl 14y agoI totally agree. Not only does it disrupt bindings and make pages slow to load, but at least once a day Chrome now freezes when I do a Google search - the results page loads, but I can't click on anything and if I scroll down the bottom of the page hasn't been rendered at all. Nothing for it but to reboot Chrome 3 times (it dies silently the first two). I still love Google overall (so yay on mailing big files and yay on Gmail generally), but the endless feature creep is a weakness, not a strength.
- runn1ng 14y agoFunny thing is that the "new and better" Google Groups don't work for me on any Android browser on my tablet, at all. Why make a website and not test it on your own ecosystem? Sometimes I don't get Google.