2y ago

Challenge: reading google chromes blog without throwing up

blog.chromium.org

Redesigning Chrome downloads, to keep you productive and safe online

If you can read a few paragraphs of this article without wanting to punch someone, congrats.

I'm so sick of Google...

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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?
- It's how they are talking in the blog post... You don't see it?
  
  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...
An awful lot of text for "We made a new Downloads UI."
- I think it’s pretty brave of them to make the bold decision to do what Edge and Firefox literally already do.
  
  I guess they had an epiphany.
I'm gonna call this intentional satire:
limited by screen width in how many files it could sh...
- It overruns on mobile Safari, too. It’s Ok, I just used the new download feature to download the rest of the sentences.
  
  Did you enjoy your core download journey?
so they copied Mozilla's downloads ui? that's an improvement for chrome imo
I guess I shouldn't be surprised if the page looks like shit on Firefox Mobile
- don't worry, it does (I use mull, which is a fork of Firefox for android)
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.
- I got to "crown keeper of communication" and then I had to turn it off. Jesus.
Not a shitpost
true

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