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What have they removed in this way? IMHO Reducing menu clutter should be done by making an "advanced" settings tab, not by requiring extensions...
by titanomachy 12y ago
What have they removed in this way? IMHO Reducing menu clutter should be done by making an "advanced" settings tab, not by requiring extensions...
- PhasmaFelis 12y agoOff the top of my head, View Selection Source in the right-click menu, and the ability to set a default background color (so that you can navigate dark-colored sites without them flashing blinding white each time a new page starts to display, and so you can make out dark images when viewing them in a separate tab). Neither one has ever gotten a really satisfactory extension, although there is an awkward View Selection Source plugin that mostly works. IIRC, the default background color was only accessible by jumping through hoops to begin with; they just decided to remove it anyway because...nobody used it? Except for the hundreds and hundreds of people who complained, but they don't count? I read the justification in the bug report and I still don't get it. I've seen at least three others that I can't recall right now. It's really, really annoying. (There's also the thing where they are in the process of deprecating NPAPI, which among other things means permanently killing support for browser games written in Unity. That at least has some technical/security justification, from what I've heard.)
- magicalist 12y ago> View Selection Source in the right-click menu AFAIK, Chrome has never had "View Selection Source" in the right-click menu. Firefox does, maybe that's what you're thinking of?
- PhasmaFelis 12y agoMaybe. There was something to do with source in the right-click menu that was removed for no good reason, but it was years ago and I can't recall the specifics. (Someone has downvoted my parent post. Baffling. Defensive Chrome dev, maybe?)