Android chrome back to its ugly tabbed page self

whats changed? my still looks normal.

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whats changed? my still looks normal.

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They changed from this tab switcher:



to this one:

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feel like it's been changed for a good while now. Maybe the pixel users get the updates way ahead of other android users? Idk

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for real. i have had this for years, im used to it.

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I feel like it's been changed for a good while now. Maybe the pixel users get the updates way ahead of other android users? Idk

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oh i have a pixel.

until yesterday's update i've been able to follow the thread on this board to switch it back.

after yesterday's update i'm stuck with the new shittiness.

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I thought I was going crazy for not having the "new update" he was talking about. Sure, it was weird at first but I actually like it now.

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I have a Pixel, and when they first changed it I switched to Brave. It's based on chrome, but they were a bit behind I guess because it still had the old style switcher until recently. Then Brave went with the grid so I went back to Chrome and tried to get used to it. It's been a while now and it still sucks for me. It's just nowhere near as fluid. I like to drag down from the address bar, and then I'm in swipe up/down mode and the old style just works so smoothly. The grid is jarring for me... I pull down and then I have to hunt and peck. It's hard to tell similar tabs apart being so small.

I think the vertical scroll with nearly full size tabs is the pinnacle of mobile browsing, it's like they changed it for the sake of change. So now I'm on Kiwi.

I like this layout better, I've had it for a while.

What I can't stand is the tab "grouping." Idk if you've gotten that update yet. Essentially if it thinks a window you're opening needs to be grouped with the tab you're currently in it puts it in a "box" with that tab and you have to switch from this tiny taskbar at the bottom of your screen.

So if you're used to opening a new tab and going to the tab switcher it gets you nowhere. You have to go back to the tab group you were in then select the window you wanted. It's dog shite.

I get the logic, some people keep a shitload of tabs open and they need organization. My wife (no pics) probably has over 100 tabs open right now.

But website organization is a long-solved problem: BOOKMARKS. Have people forgotten that you can do that? Has Google forgotten that you can do that? It would seem so seeing as how shitty bookmark management is with mobile chrome. If they would work on that, and add the "open all" in a folder feature found on desktop browsers, nobody would need to keep 100 tabs open.

The only improvement to vertical scroll tab management that I would care to see is the addition of a concept of "workspaces". Similar to grouped tabs, except they don't have to get shrunk down to shite and require a bunch of tapping around to find. It already does this when you go incognito, just expand the concept to an arbitrary number of workspaces. Simple.

For some people it's just website tabs, for others of us it's a step backward and a waste of time.

It doesn't flow. Creating tabs groups is awkward. Some controls are at the top, others at the bottom. If you have several tabs from the same site in a group, the icons are useless because they're all the same. The two column grid is awful because when you close a tab, all the ones below it switch columns and you have to wait for the animation to finish before you can tap one of them.

It's like frick everything we know about small touchscreen usability to accommodate people who don't know about bookmarks and/or because we don't feel like making bookmark management usable.

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This seems like a big deal to people, but i guess i don't get it.

It's just website tabs.

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I don't even notice it until I see the number up there and think, huh....what's that? Then I close them.