Apologies in advance if this is in the wrong place, I'm not sure where best to discuss this...
A while back I installed Cyanogen's 5.0.2 ROM on my Nexus One (and more recently, 5.0.3.1), and have noticed a new "feature" that I suspect has been added to the latest Android browser source tree (since this custom ROM is using a newer codebase than the current default ROM). I know the feature wasn't added by Cyanogen or another 3rd party, as I have discussed this with them. Here's what I'm seeing: Previously (stock ROM with or without the OTA update installed), when I went to www.google.com then clicked on the "News" link at the top of the page, any news article I select on that page opens up as a new web page. This is good, and what I'd expect to happen. Since installing the custom ROM with the newer codebase however, when I now click on a news article a popup window appears over the news webpage. It happens on various other websites too, Google News is just an easy way to demonstrate it. This is REALLY annoying for the following reasons: 1) I can no longer open web pages in the background. On the standard ROM I'd long-press each news article and open in a new background window, so the loading would happen behind the scenes. Now I have to wait. 2) Valuable screen real-estate is wasted, on a mobile screen every pixel counts! 3) The 'close' X button of the popup is up in the top right. When holding the phone with only my right hand, that's quite a stretch for my thumb. I also can't press that until the page has finished loading, because it's obscured by the address bar [edit: though I see the hard 'back' button works] I really hope this feature is not something that is going to be included in an upcoming official release. Is someone able to confirm or deny this? If it IS a new feature, I'm curious to hear why it is being added, and what was considered to be wrong with the original mechanism (which to my mind at least was perfectly fine, and is far far better than this new popup approach). It really does seem like a significant step backwards in usability to me :( Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
