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Google Chrome's biggest annoyance: Download bar

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Re: Google Chrome's biggest annoyance: Download bar

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Post by electic »

tjoff wrote: post #3

Firefox biggest annoyance: The download window. I feel like I've taken a time machine to the 90's every time it pops up. Chrome's download bar on the other hand is quite neat and it doesn't distract your workflow.

I wish it was more like Safari's download feature.

Re: Google Chrome's biggest annoyance: Download bar

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Post by gsai »

tjoff wrote: post #3

Firefox biggest annoyance: The download window. I feel like I've taken a time machine to the 90's every time it pops up. Chrome's download bar on the other hand is quite neat and it doesn't distract your workflow.

Why drag Firefox into this discussion? Firefox has options for customizing everything, and when it doesn't there's always extensions. That's one of it's best features.

If you don't like "taking a time machine" Firefox's download window can be disabled using "Show the Downloads window when downloading a file" option.

Re: Google Chrome's biggest annoyance: Download bar

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Post by mcpherrinm »

tjoff wrote: post #3

Firefox biggest annoyance: The download window. I feel like I've taken a time machine to the 90's every time it pops up. Chrome's download bar on the other hand is quite neat and it doesn't distract your workflow.

Have you seen the replacement UI?

https://wiki.mozilla.org/File:DownloadsPanel-Downloading.png

For reasons unknown to me, it's been delayed for ages. So long that even Safari has copied and deployed it before Firefox did.

Re: Google Chrome's biggest annoyance: Download bar

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Post by resure »

ronyeh wrote: post #2

Totally agree with you. :-) I spend so much time every day clicking the little X to kill the download bar. I think Google developers design for 30" monitors or something... I work on a laptop all day and my vertical pixels are very valuable to me.

You can type Shift-Cmd-J + Cmd-W to hide it.

Re: Google Chrome's biggest annoyance: Download bar

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Post by xqyz »

tjoff wrote: post #3

Firefox biggest annoyance: The download window. I feel like I've taken a time machine to the 90's every time it pops up. Chrome's download bar on the other hand is quite neat and it doesn't distract your workflow.

Safari's expanding download button is a lot better than the download bar. Ideally I'd prefer it if you could just disable it and it would open the download window in a background tab instead.

Re: Google Chrome's biggest annoyance: Download bar

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Post by autodidakto »

2 and a half years ago I tried Chrome and was turned off by the download bar. I pleaded, along with a few others, for at least a shortcut that would close the bar. The response was: What's the matter with your mouse?

EDIT: Oh wait. This issue was from 2 years ago. Silly me thought something finally changed. And it seems the main discussion isn't in the OPs link, but here: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=27797 and here: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=89922

Re: Google Chrome's biggest annoyance: Download bar

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Post by Karunamon »

There won't be an option to disable the shelf. There are other bugs about making dismissing it easier. Status: WontFix

Grr. What's the bloody point of open source if the developers of the project won't accept wanted fixes? There are a number of ways I can think of off the top of my head that don't involve taking up unnecessary screen space like that.

Heck, even the Firefox extension for a download status bar isn't that absurdly large.

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