Even good UI adjustments are met with hostility from belligerent software program customers who preferred issues the best way they have been, so I will not declare to know whether or not or not the selection to maneuver Chrome’s downloads record from a bar on the backside of the display screen to a tray on the high proper is sweet UX design or not. I will simply meet it with hostility.
Till as we speak, I used to be residing in a dreamlike state of delusion over the lack of Chrome’s obtain bar. I tilted my head at its absence each time I downloaded one thing, however relatively than believing that some merciless Silicon Valley fiend would actually transfer my downloads from the place they have been since earlier than I even began utilizing Chrome—so, for many years—I shook it off, discovered the file in Explorer, and left the thriller for an additional day.
It wasn’t till I noticed a tweet from Rust creator Garry Newman that I actually comprehended the scenario. “Chrome transferring the downloads to the highest proper has ruined my complete life,” he wrote.
The replace occurred on August 2, and makes Chrome extra like Firefox and Edge, which additionally show latest downloads in a tray that sits minimized to the proper of the deal with bar on the high of the display screen. I suppose obtain trays that run alongside the underside of the browser and show file names in large, apparent packing containers are old style. What’s cool now, apparently, is searching amongst all of your Extension icons to search out the downward-pointing arrow behind which hides the .zip file you wish to open, or the .jpg whose listing you wish to navigate to.
Not in my home!
I modified it again, and you may, too. Here is how get the Chrome obtain bar again:
- Enter chrome://flags into the Chrome deal with bar, which can take you to its “experimental” characteristic settings
- Discover “Allow obtain bubble” and set it to “Disabled”
- Relaunch Chrome
Do this, and your downloads will as soon as once more seem side-by-side in little packing containers in a thick bar that, now that I have a look at it once more, does appear fairly old style. Simply how I prefer it.
There isn’t any assure that the choice to disable the brand new UI will stick round, so possibly sometime I will be compelled to go on with out my cozy shelf filled with .rar information and .jpgs and information that I believed have been .jpgs however have been truly .webps. And possibly that is the day I lastly log out.
