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Looks like someone at Google is working on this actually. Found this in chrome://flags New Downloads UI Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS Disables the download shelf. Will show the new downloads UI as it is implemented.
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.
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/deta…
If Google ever changes the download bar in Chrome, you can be damn sure it has nothing to do with a snarky Chromium bug tracking thread. And they wouldn't be totally in the wrong because it isn't a bug, obviously.
Anybody have this same issue?
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.
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.
My biggest annoyance: When I click on downloaded items on the download bar, it takes me to the folder instead of opening the file. Anybody have this same issue?
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.
Just curious, how come you have so many things to download? Is that email attachments in web mail? I can't really think of many things to download - usually PDFs, I suppose.
Looks like someone at Google is working on this actually. Found this in chrome://flags New Downloads UI Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS Disables the download shelf. Will show the new downloads UI as it is implemented.
This flag exists since chrome://flags exists. I always enabled it (due to the shitty download bar), but never saw a new UI, even 2 years later.