https://blog.chromium.org/2023/08/redesigning-chrome-downloads-to-keep.html?m=1
With the latest release of Chrome for desktop we are introducing a redesign of the Chrome downloads experience to make it easier for you to ...
If you can read a few paragraphs of this article without wanting to punch someone, congrats.
I'm so sick of Google...
I mean fuck Google and all, but this is just an announcement that they are copying Firefox's way of display download information. Is there something inherently wrong with that?
I mean is this your first time hearing corporate/marketing speech on the internet? I don't like it myself either, but it is not like it kills children in africa...
Are you sure this wasn’t written by some poor intern under some form of duress?
“With the download tray, you can see a list of all your downloads from the past 24 hours in any browser window, not just the one in which you originally downloaded a file. The tray also offers in-line options to open the folder a download is in, cancel a download, retry a download should it fail for any reason, and pause/resume downloads.”
I think it’s pretty brave of them to make the bold decision to do what Edge and Firefox literally already do.
I'm gonna call this intentional satire:
It overruns on mobile Safari, too. It’s Ok, I just used the new download feature to download the rest of the sentences.
Pro tip, just don't breath whenever the anger gets worse, you will pass out before you throw up! ;)
As someone who has geeked out on fonts since we were trading bitmap fonts for System 5 on the Mac, I can say that article is fine. Believe it or not, all of that actually matters to graphic design/text design people.
