All of these "help the dumb Chrome user" additions to Chrome really need a way to be turned off. All the Chrome team needs to do is have a Developer Options section, which they already do in Android, that allows us advanced users to undo all the asinine changes to the browser over the past 2 years:
- OS-style scrollbars were removed [1]
- Backspace no longer goes back [2]
- Can't click on the "Lock" in URL bar to see certificate info anymore
- Tabs were redesigned, and take up more space
- Extensions are no longer a simple list, but are now gigantic unnecessary "cards"
- "Chrome Web Store" link from Extensions section is now hidden underneath hamburger menu
- Half the themes for the old design are literally broken now
Those are the biggest buggers for me, and Google simply throws up the middle finger <^> to advanced users and expects us to understand these changes are better for everyone. NO they are not! Let us turn these "features" off in Developer Options.
[1][2] There are extensions that can re-enable these top two removals. The rest cannot be changed.
- OS-style scrollbars were removed [1]
- Backspace no longer goes back [2]
- Can't click on the "Lock" in URL bar to see certificate info anymore
- Tabs were redesigned, and take up more space
- Extensions are no longer a simple list, but are now gigantic unnecessary "cards"
- "Chrome Web Store" link from Extensions section is now hidden underneath hamburger menu
- Half the themes for the old design are literally broken now
Those are the biggest buggers for me, and Google simply throws up the middle finger <^> to advanced users and expects us to understand these changes are better for everyone. NO they are not! Let us turn these "features" off in Developer Options.
[1][2] There are extensions that can re-enable these top two removals. The rest cannot be changed.