Comments on: Google Chrome Linux Beta http://www.chromestory.com/2009/12/google-chrome-linux-beta/ Fri, 18 May 2012 21:41:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Aquaadverse http://www.chromestory.com/2009/12/google-chrome-linux-beta/#comment-817 Aquaadverse Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:32:10 +0000 http://chromestory.com/?p=557#comment-817 For all the great things Google does, it's really hard to understand why they dig in their heels and flat refuse to simply add a feature or item people want. In iGoogle it was the wasteful addition of entire sidebar for the tabs. People came up with workarounds and kludges so it went back to 3 tiny tabs along the top. But complaints to the feedback site got messages like "We think this fits the modern web browsing experience better and you'll agree after using it a while." Now it's the refusal to add a bookmark drop down button in Chrome. I did a quick web search, there are complaints about it everywhere. And the addition to the launcher of --bookmark menu switch won't work in the Linux Beta. It's really hard to understand exactly why a simple little thing is so intractable. It's back to Firefox and Opera for me. For all the great things Google does, it’s really hard to understand why they dig in their heels and flat refuse to simply add a feature or item people want. In iGoogle it was the wasteful addition of entire sidebar for the tabs. People came up with workarounds and kludges so it went back to 3 tiny tabs along the top. But complaints to the feedback site got messages like “We think this fits the modern web browsing experience better and you’ll agree after using it a while.”

Now it’s the refusal to add a bookmark drop down button in Chrome. I did a quick web search, there are complaints about it everywhere. And the addition to the launcher of –bookmark menu switch won’t work in the Linux Beta.

It’s really hard to understand exactly why a simple little thing is so intractable. It’s back to Firefox and Opera for me.

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