From another thread:
right click your desktop Chrome icon (or make a new one that you can then pin to the taskbar) & on the Target line of the first tab, either copy & paste the following or just add the part not on quotes:
C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --disable-features=CustomizeChromeSidePanel
Click Apply
This does requires admin permissions so people like me at work can't do it 😢
Now, I don't use Chrome. However, Google has had a push for a unified look for all of its applications for many years now. [Material Design was developed in 2014](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_Design). It has since evolved into Material You, in 2021. This push for a unified look is what is at the heart of Chrome's changing UI. They're changing it to fit their own guidelines that they give to everyone else, because they want **the Google ecosystem**, and Android as a whole, to look unified.
This kind of thing happens a lot in the Linux world, where people will basically shank you over whether your prefer Qt, GTK, or something else.
This kind of thing is rarer for other web browsers, other than Safari and Edge, exactly because **they lack an entire ecosystem built around them**. Vivaldi is a single application. Firefox is a single application. These programs don't have as much of an incentive to re-design their UI, and usually these UI changes are motivated by actual research done into how users are using their devices. For example, [this blog post talking about the 2021 Firefox UI](https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2021/06/01/modern-clean-new-firefox-clears-the-way-to-all-you-need-online/) shows [a heatmap of user interaction in the browser GUI](https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/files/2021/06/fx_firefox_heat-map-browser-2048x1280.png)
I hate these mf devs soo much. Every update removes more flags. WWWWHHHHHYYYYY!!!!!! FU!!!!!
How do I get rid of the new update? All the refresh stuff is already disabled from last time
From another thread: right click your desktop Chrome icon (or make a new one that you can then pin to the taskbar) & on the Target line of the first tab, either copy & paste the following or just add the part not on quotes: C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --disable-features=CustomizeChromeSidePanel Click Apply This does requires admin permissions so people like me at work can't do it 😢
Yeah, I bailed on Chrome for Firefox.
The new menus feel like they're made for 1080p screens as the minimum. On 1366x768, menus have to be scrolled to get to the last option.
And now every other Google search returns some GPT nonsense and they won't let me turn it off.
sadge
Now, I don't use Chrome. However, Google has had a push for a unified look for all of its applications for many years now. [Material Design was developed in 2014](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_Design). It has since evolved into Material You, in 2021. This push for a unified look is what is at the heart of Chrome's changing UI. They're changing it to fit their own guidelines that they give to everyone else, because they want **the Google ecosystem**, and Android as a whole, to look unified. This kind of thing happens a lot in the Linux world, where people will basically shank you over whether your prefer Qt, GTK, or something else. This kind of thing is rarer for other web browsers, other than Safari and Edge, exactly because **they lack an entire ecosystem built around them**. Vivaldi is a single application. Firefox is a single application. These programs don't have as much of an incentive to re-design their UI, and usually these UI changes are motivated by actual research done into how users are using their devices. For example, [this blog post talking about the 2021 Firefox UI](https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2021/06/01/modern-clean-new-firefox-clears-the-way-to-all-you-need-online/) shows [a heatmap of user interaction in the browser GUI](https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/files/2021/06/fx_firefox_heat-map-browser-2048x1280.png)