New Chrome Interface, i hates it!

Deleted member 77746 · 5 Apr 2013 at 12:58

MarcLister said:
Have to say I don't mind this. I was a bit surprised to discover this last night; I wondered where it came from. I thought something was running on my PC to change Chrome's UI.

It updates itself in the background.

TheVoice · 5 Apr 2013 at 13:17

Still got the old style menu here, Chrome is up to date too. A Windows 8 thing, maybe? I'm still on Win7.

KIA · 5 Apr 2013 at 13:19

Is this unique to Win8?

spoffle · 5 Apr 2013 at 13:21

Nismo said:
Indeed, but that's no reason to jump on people who don't like something AND provide a fix for others that don't.

Repeatedly saying "I'm struggling to see what the issue is" isn't really any help is it to anyone, is it?

My comment was based on the opening post, in that the op was complaining and saying how much he hated it, from what I could see in the image, the change was incredibly minor, hence my comments and further qualification later asking if it's more than just what's shown in the OP, or if that's the entirety of the change.

Nismo · 5 Apr 2013 at 13:37

spoffle said:
My comment was based on the opening post, in that the op was complaining and saying how much he hated it, from what I could see in the image, the change was incredibly minor, hence my comments and further qualification later asking if it's more than just what's shown in the OP, or if that's the entirety of the change.

You carried on saying you couldn't see the issue, even after my first post highlighting that it had also mucked up my bookmarks bar.

Plus, to have a list that only took half the screen height before, to then go to filling the whole screen with extra spacing as one of my bookmarks tabs did is a fairly noticeable change, and completely unnecessary. Unless you have a touch display, it's pointless and irritating.

yashiro · 5 Apr 2013 at 18:29

There needs to be a settings option to turn this crap off, yes.

UnworthyBean · 5 Apr 2013 at 18:38

Theres also an option to launch in Windows 8 mode. Legitimate question here, But whats the point?

I'm actually one of the people who like Windows 8, But dont see the use of this?

yashiro · 5 Apr 2013 at 18:40

Scougar said:
Can you be more specific about the fix?

What are 'properties' of the chrome shortcut? Do you mean just adding a space to the end of the URL?

If so.. I've done that, change the setting and it still doesn't work

I've also tried adding a space, and putting the extra bit of the url in (--disable new style etc ..) and it doesn't work.

What am I doing wrong?

Open Chrome and 'Pin it' to your taskbar.
Close Chrome.
Hold Shift and Right Click the Chrome icon on your taskbar.
Select Properties.
In the box that says Target: You will probably see

Code:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"

Change it to

Code:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --disable-new-menu-style

Click Ok.
Launch Chrome from the taskbar.

Matteysan · 5 Apr 2013 at 19:12

You think that is the worst part of the new chrome updates?

This is by far the worst.

Why do I need another search bar with Google written above it when my address bar does exactly that. Much preferred having the 8 previews of most visited sites!

kmax86 · 5 Apr 2013 at 19:28

thanks for the fix for the extra padding

this_is_gav · 5 Apr 2013 at 19:44

Mattey1 said:
This is by far the worst.

Why do I need another search bar with Google written above it when my address bar does exactly that. Much preferred having the 8 previews of most visited sites!

Other than the rather obvious answer of a Google Search box, what is that? I've still got my 8 most used sites, or the little 'apps' buttons, depending one which view I want. :\

Matteysan · 5 Apr 2013 at 19:46

this_is_gav said:
Other than the rather obvious answer of a Google Search box, what is that? I've still got my 8 most used sites, or the little 'apps' buttons, depending one which view I want. :\

It is the page you get when you open new tabs. I use the dev versions so this isn't in stable releases yet.

Version 28.0.1464.0 dev-m one I'm using.

this_is_gav · 5 Apr 2013 at 20:47

Ah right, I'm still on stable.

shankly1985 · 6 Apr 2013 at 04:00

I like the new update, think it looks very clean lol

AdmiralChewWood · 6 Apr 2013 at 10:36

+1 I also like these updates.
I love how there is extra spacing in the menu, it means i am no longer selecting the wrong thing while using a touch screen.

KIA · 6 Apr 2013 at 13:54

Dirk said:
Go to the properties of your chrome shortcut and at the end of the target line add a space then --disable-new-menu-style

Nice one. The new menu design is awful. :mad:

Mtx · 6 Apr 2013 at 16:00

Thanks for the fix. On a desktop the bookmarks were taking up way too much real estate.

Randomface74 · 6 Apr 2013 at 16:07

Fix doesn't work on my "quick launch" icon

StringJunky · 6 Apr 2013 at 17:23

billysielu said:
Fix doesn't work on my "quick launch" icon

Delete your present taskbar icon. Apply the line to chrome on your desktop or in All Programs and then pin that to your taskbar.

Dirk · 9 Apr 2013 at 13:51

Well, coming back to my thread it's nice to see that i'm not the only one that is perturbed by this change. In fact the Google Help Forums are still being flooded with complaints:

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!categories/chrome/windows

For those of us using the fix, it might not be immediately obvious if Google reverse their decision and revert Chrome to it's former state. If anybody notices that this has indeed happened, can they post that here so that we can reverse the changes we have made?