OK, it's a very opportunistic comment but for French people, I just released a new episode today of my podcast with Sébastien Gabriel, Senior Visual Designer on Google Chrome. We discuss about Chrome and its design and you'll learn more about the amazing level of details and precision these guys are diving into. Way much more than what strikes the eye ;-) 👉 https://pcast.io/1394731893

I’ve been a safari loyalist and launched chrome yesterday for first time in a while. I was pleasantly surprised by the speed and clean look. It beat Firefox and Safari. It’s possible it just felt faster since the loading of pages is vastly different. Safari seems to like to load the whole page before showing you much.

I haven't used it much yet but now it's harder for me to differentiate between different "people". I use different accounts and it used to show the names on the top right corner. Now it just shows a photo. I'm not sure where it's pulling that photo from since it doesn't match the image I chose in settings. Also, if you download a doc and use the bar at the bottom to move multiple copies into backups, etc, you can't do that any more. It moves the entire file, just as though you were in the folder itself. I'm undecided on whether or not it makes things easier to find in my tab hoarding. And it looks like the memory sucking still happens. (which admittedly I do not help by tab hoarding)

Changelog for Developers: * CSS Scroll Snap (super nice to make gallery-like interactions!) * Display cutouts (notch support) * Web Locks API * Array .flat() and .flatMap() * OffscreenCanvas (moves work off the main thread into a worker for performance reasons) * CSS conic-gradient https://youtu.be/WF2IjH35w8o https://developers.google.com/we...

Updates include: - More rounded shapes, new icons and a new colour palette. - Changed the shape of our tabs so that the website icons are easier to see, which makes it easier to navigate across lots of tabs - simplified the prompts, menus, and even the URLs in your address bar - Smart answers directly in your search bar

It's hard tell which host I was browsing since the Chrome team turn on this feature: chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-scheme-and-subdomains

Pros:

tell me about it

Cons:

WHY Omnibox UI Hide Steady-State URL Scheme and Trivial Subdomains

It's been too long Chrome. It's time to have tabs and cookies handled in browser for on mobile browsing experiences! https://medium.muz.li/google-chr...

Woo! I'm always a fan of browser updates. Maybe this version won't eat up my RAM. 😂

Nothing to like about this update as far as I can tell

Pros:

None as far as I can see

Cons:

Slower, lots of empty white space (more scrolling required), several keyboard shortcuts broken, less snappy with several tabs open

very smart moves from Google. most people outside of a very technical arena don't even understand what https is or the dns server it is accessing. By transitioning its design language to material, google is unifying the designs of its products (gmail, chrome) to all feel a bit familiar

My browser hasn't updated yet but after reading these reviews/comments I'm not sure I want it to? 🤔

Am i the only one who is getting fuzzy fonts and blurry pages with this version of chrome.

It's awful update. Worse than ever. I feel like having iPhone UI like 3 years ago.

Pros:

Something... new?

Cons:

Google really sucks at design. Especially disappearing text in tabs is awful.

shift+command+open-bracket is the UNIVERSAL symbol for previous tab, and shift+command+close-bracket is THE symbol for next tab. Why remove this? Browser is broken as far as I am concerned.

Pros:

Looks cute?

Cons:

Keyboard shortcuts no longer work!!!!

I couldn't stand the new tabs so I went to @vivaldibrowser. They are amazing!!!

Never been a huge fan of Chrome due to it's hoggish nature, lack of good privacy, sub-par Inspect Element feature, etc... [should I mention that it updates itself when it wants to - it hadn't updated my Chrome since v59 and claimed that there were no updates when I tried forcing it to].

This feels like a version update to make some noise around it's 10yr anniversary but not really something that is going to make that big a difference in the world of browsers...

Wish Google would truly try to innovate and rethink browsing ENTIRELY like Opera did with their concept browser: Opera Neon

Pros:

I guess we could it call it something new

Cons:

When Show Bookmarks Bar is on, visual white gutter height not adjusted - doesn't seem so polished

Good job, Joel! Happy for you dude!

My colleague recommended Firefox Quantum when it is released. But I did not ditch out Chrome. I hope this update won't disappoint me :) Love lots.

I think they overdid it with these super round corners everywhere. Looks cartoonish to me :D (still my favorite browser though.. :p)

Vivaldi has everything but the smart answers already :P plus more... just saying..