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Is google's rounded search box less ergonomic than the rectangular box?

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Is google's rounded search box less ergonomic than the rectangular box?

  • Yes

    Votes: 6 54.5%

  • No

    Votes: 5 45.5%
  • Total voters
    11
What rounded edges are you guys talking about is it the address bar? When I go to www.google.com the rectangular search box is still the same so it must be in browser right?

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I honestly don't know if this is that big of deal guys. Companies update the ui of their software all the time and this seems pretty minimal. Are you sure you guys aren't just creatures of habit? Getting comfortable with the way something looks is pretty normal but bitching about such a small change might put a lot of you guys in the old man category....just sayin.
 
bbhaag said:
What rounded edges are you guys talking about is it the address bar? When I go to www.google.com the rectangular search box is still the same so it must be in browser right?

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I honestly don't know if this is that big of deal guys. Companies update the ui of their software all the time and this seems pretty minimal. Are you sure you guys aren't just creatures of habit? Getting comfortable with the way something looks is pretty normal but bitching about such a small change might put a lot of you guys in the old man category....just sayin.
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Skipping past the pointless ad hominem...

I doubt that anyone here thinks this 'update' is a 'big deal', it's just a colossal waste of time, and I'm pretty sure that Chrome just like any other software product worth a damn has an outstanding bugs/improvements list that wouldn't be a colossal waste of time to work on.
 
Chaotic42 said:
You can change it back by going to chrome://flags/#top-chrome-md and changing UI Layout for the browser's top chrome to Normal
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LOL The normal setting is an option?

That's what's wrong with America. You have to make a special request to get anything normal/medium/standard and then you get ridiculed for not wanting to eat supersized food and bang trannies.
 
Just wait until the gmail changes are forced upon us. The new layout (which you can currently not use, but will become standard soon enough) are HORRIBLE
 
Homerboy said:
Just wait until the gmail changes are forced upon us. The new layout (which you can currently not use, but will become standard soon enough) are HORRIBLE
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Funny you should mention that as my company just made the switch over this morning. "It burns!"

The fonts suck and they moved stuff around just because it had been there awhile. It would be nice if Google could learn to build a decent UI and for f's sake, Google needs to learn how to build a search engine for gmail. Outlook circa 2005 was vastly superior to modern gmail.
 
Even Reddit's UI sucks now, you need to go to old.reddit.com to get the normal look now. I would have figured, they, of all people would not follow this stupid trend.
 
bbhaag said:
What rounded edges are you guys talking about is it the address bar? When I go to www.google.com the rectangular search box is still the same so it must be in browser right?

Y47uNyt.png


I honestly don't know if this is that big of deal guys. Companies update the ui of their software all the time and this seems pretty minimal. Are you sure you guys aren't just creatures of habit? Getting comfortable with the way something looks is pretty normal but bitching about such a small change might put a lot of you guys in the old man category....just sayin.
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Get off my lawn!
 
Thebobo said:
How about a way to go back to the old style of their home page?
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Google? I don't know what the old home page looks like, since there's almost no reason to visit it when you can search using either the ominbox or context menu, but you can install the Stylus extension, if you don't already have it installed. This gives you the ability to use custom CSS on any web site/page. Either your own CSS, or something created by someone else and uploaded to userstyles.org.

There are 405 alternative styles you could choose from for google and its pages such as gmail.

https://userstyles.org/styles/browse/google
 
Red Squirrel said:
Even Reddit's UI sucks now, you need to go to old.reddit.com to get the normal look now. I would have figured, they, of all people would not follow this stupid trend.
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Reddit's UI/layout has always sucked and continues to suck that's the sole reason I don't use the place.
 
Carson Dyle said:
Yeah, but you can have actual discussions there, where everyone isn't either an elderly man or a shut-in.
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Well you infer that everyone here is an elderly man or a shut-in and that you cant have an actual discussion yet we are having one now and I aint a shut in. Yes I am a man, elderly not yet and I'm not dead yet. Now get off my lawn!
 
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Reddit has pretty shit discussions, but it's a good source of articles and news. Reddit Enhancement Suite is pretty much essential for desktop, and I use Redreader for android. It's one of the few exceptions I make regarding not using a (cr)app as a replacement for a browser. The interface is so terrible by default, it makes sense to use an app for it, and RES is kind of heavy for mobile.
 
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