Yeah, they also narrowed the scroll bar. They said they rolled it out to 1,000,000 beta users last fall and only got 20 or some complaints. Something seems fishy about those numbers. Not to mention that Beta version users are likely not Average Joes so not a representative general population of Chrome users I wouldn't think. It does seems that Google appears to be applying the same logic to this Chrome UI change as Microsoft did with Metro and Windows 8. Of course, not at quite the same magnitude/attitude as M$ shoved down our throats! :)
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Boniol Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2014 2:28 AM To: NLUG Subject: Re: [nlug] if you use Chrome, and like clicking the stepper arrow buttons for scrolling I don't know if this is new to the Linux version, but I've been living with this annoyance since fall on the Windows laptop provided by my work. Personally, I hate the absence of arrows on the scroll bar. Pretty sure the scroll bar also shrunk in width, making it difficult to grab/move as I want. Paul On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 6:26 AM, Mark J. Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: Don't upgrade to Chrome M32! Google decided to merge the UI from various OSes into the single one found on ChromeOS and killed the up and down stepper arrows at the top and bottom of the vertical scroll bar, and (I think) at the left and right of the horizontal scroll bar without making any kind of widespread, public announcement. Of course you have wheels and pads and touch screen and keyboard arrow keys, but if you're like me and need to single line step scroll through a page and are used to doing so with just a mouse click or pad tap on the stepper arrows, this might be a real hassle. They say they'll "monitor" it. There are some extensions that sort of bring them back, but they aren't without side effects. Here is one of a number of bug reports seen in recent days about it: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=279464 <https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=279464&q=scroll&colsp ec=ID%20Pri%20M%20Iteration%20ReleaseBlock%20Cr%20Status%20Owner%20Summary %20OS%20Modified> &q=scroll&colspec=ID%20Pri%20M%20Iteration%20ReleaseBlock%20Cr%20Status%20 Owner%20Summary%20OS%20Modified -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" 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/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" 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/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
