and now because of that mindset, even Excel, that used to be the last survivor of the Great Bloating of Microsoftus Demonius is so ducking slow and painful to use. Microsoft tries to keep absolutely every little thing that used to be important to some random failed company in 56B.C. I most definitely don't want Google to keep everything they used to have in their apps because that's what makes them good. My point being they won't change back because people complain about it, so why bother? I wouldn't know whether I prefer the new implementation or not. nobody likes change, but change is sometimes good, I'm not saying this one is, I don't use Chrome except at work where I can't download that much stuff anyway. there's no point in complaining, yes there are stories of big companies finally doing what the users want, but they're rare and not for things as small as this. I always prefer adapting to 'the new way' for a few reasons: Well it seems they messed up one person’s gag reflex :)

Their decision to remove the flag option just shows you how insecure the devs are, they decided to force feed the update because people kept not wanting it. So what do you “manage” with the bubble, hmm? You manage the files in the file explorer, you can’t delete the download logs in the bubble and you still have to go to ctrl+j to do that. It does not make “managing” downloads easier because there isn’t anything to “manage”. Whereas the old bottom download goes away and stay gone when you click X. It also seems kind of buggy at the moment, I’ve seen it react to some random keystrokes which really bugs me. The download bubble IMO is just clunky, it pops up when download starts and pops up again when it’s done. So if you wanted this feature so much, why whine now? The download bubble first updated like months ago IIRC and that’s why people here are all talking about the flag and its removal that came with the recent update. The number of people preferring the old ways is more than seven, I can assure you.

Free Google Chrome 119.0.6045.160