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Not everything that puts crap in the menubar is crap. The Google Chrome Notification is an egregious offender - it appeared without warning, ugly and unretinafi

Not everything that puts crap in the menubar is crap. The Google Chrome Notification is an egregious offender - it appeared without warning, ugly and unretinafied, and can only be (temporarily) removed by (1) doing everything it asks, (2) then quitting and relaunching Chrome. It's highly-visible systemwide placement for minor system-oriented tasks, and unnecessary given how much interface Chrome already has to work with. It sucks, but saying "you just shouldn't use Chrome" is a pretty weak solution for the small but conspicuous blemish. That said, the menubar is a legitimate place for lots of things. It's great for services (eg dropbox), status (eg battery), and shortcuts (eg wifi). It's a useful distinction from app icons in the Dock, which generally use more traditional desktop windows. I always like it when an app in the grey area (eg Twitterific) lets users choose where the icon lives. Like the author, I resort to Bartender to manage them all. I wonder if menubar apps will eventually be moved into OSX's Notifications sidebar. I don't want them there, but I'd guess Apple prefers shoving into a drawer rather than sherlocking Bartender. [edited a li'l so it made more sense]

GuiA 13y ago
Chrome is becoming worse and worse, just to push Google's interests further. I don't get why there are still hackers who don't use just Chromium by now.
- Khaine 13y ago
  Because Chrome has flash built in and auto-updated. Chromium does not. If you need to use flash, and want to minimise security issues, then Chrome is the browser of choice.
thrownaway2424 13y ago
What does this Chrome notification thing look like? I've used Chrome for years and I'm currently on Chrome 33 and I've never seen this thing.
- gruseom 13y ago
  It's a little grey bell with an ugly and nonstandard menu attached to it. It showed up the other day on my machine and I had exactly the same rage reaction as the OP. I ended up learning that you can go to chrome://flags and disable it—but not before Google had bitten another chunk out of my formerly positive feelings towards them.
  - thrownaway2424 13y ago
    Oh, _that_ thing. It's sort of tricky to handle HTML5 Notifications without such a thing. What does Firefox do?
    - madeofpalk 13y ago
      Not tricky when your platform provides a standard way to do it already.
Udo 13y ago
I remember when it first showed up on my machines, nothing at all would happen if I clicked on it. I only found out what this icon belonged to by successively quitting apps. It's the single most useless icon in my menu bar, it feels almost malicious. This prompted me to finally try and go back to Firefox...

GuiA 13y ago

Chrome is becoming worse and worse, just to push Google's interests further. I don't get why there are still hackers who don't use just Chromium by now.

Khaine 13y ago
Because Chrome has flash built in and auto-updated. Chromium does not. If you need to use flash, and want to minimise security issues, then Chrome is the browser of choice.

thrownaway2424 13y ago

What does this Chrome notification thing look like? I've used Chrome for years and I'm currently on Chrome 33 and I've never seen this thing.

gruseom 13y ago
It's a little grey bell with an ugly and nonstandard menu attached to it. It showed up the other day on my machine and I had exactly the same rage reaction as the OP. I ended up learning that you can go to chrome://flags and disable it—but not before Google had bitten another chunk out of my formerly positive feelings towards them.
- thrownaway2424 13y ago
  Oh, _that_ thing. It's sort of tricky to handle HTML5 Notifications without such a thing. What does Firefox do?
  - madeofpalk 13y ago
    Not tricky when your platform provides a standard way to do it already.

Udo 13y ago

I remember when it first showed up on my machines, nothing at all would happen if I clicked on it. I only found out what this icon belonged to by successively quitting apps. It's the single most useless icon in my menu bar, it feels almost malicious. This prompted me to finally try and go back to Firefox...