Google chrome nav bar
4My Android Google chrome browser updated and now all the navigation bars are white. They used to be colored to match the web pages that had the coloring enabled. That was really nice especially when on websites with a night or dark mode. Now I have this stark white bar that’s really distracting.
It would also minimize scrolling. Now it’s fixed permanently.
Any idea how to get that back?
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Blame the goat?
@narfcake totes the goat’s fault
My Chrome mobile browser doesn’t have visible tabs. Only a box with a number in it representing the number of tabs open.
@medz no tabs. The http bar.
@RiotDemon Ah. Mine is still green for woot and blue for the facebooks.
version 69.0.3497.100
@medz no idea where it shows the version. I’d turn off auto updates on chrome if you haven’t already.
Reading through reviews of the newest version, I am not alone in the hate.
@medz @RiotDemon
I have the same version as medz (see it in chrome settings, about or Android settings, apps, chrome). Running Oreo 8.0 with Samsung experience 9.0.
For me the navbar goes away when scrolling down but comes back if I scroll up at all or if the keyboard is open.
Tab frames are now all white when scrolling through open tabs but change color when in that tab on sites that set it like woot. It actually changes the color of the notification bar too.
I can’t see any settings that would affect the navbar.
One thing I hate is that AMP sites override the nav bar so you have to scroll all the way to the top to get the navbar back and change tabs.
@djslack @medz I just went to woot and I do see that it changed the nav and notification bar to green. It’s odd because I remember more sites having color coordinated nav bars but now all the sites I usually go to are white.
It’s just way too much white. I’ve been trying some apps out to dim the phone’s screen at night beyond the minimum but they all kill my battery. I hate how the notification bar is all blended in.
@RiotDemon Have you tried changing your OS theme to dark? Under Settings > Display > Device Theme. I’m not sure if that carries forward to the Chrome browser though.
@medz didn’t have that exact setting but I went and downloaded some dark themes. It does not carry over to chrome. It makes my phone overall nicer, except…
Found a new fun issue. On the J3 Galaxy you cannot change the text message bubble color. The themes will change the font color. Most dark themes use light colored fonts. Default bubbles are light yellow and grey. So now texts are unreadable. I have to search for a dark theme that happens to use dark fonts on texts. The ones I’ve found use hideous icons.
It really makes me miss my HTC. On that phone you could pick and choose from different themes to make exactly what you want. You could also change the text message bubbles. I found a Samsung help thread where everyone was complaining about it. Apparently Samsung has been notified by the theme creators as well about the issue. Still persists.
Hmm, the nav bar hides when scrolling but then comes back when I stop. Blah.
I use multiple browsers, and am VERY careful to keep what I use them for separate. I don’t trust Google. Haven’t trusted them for years and years. I use the Chrome browser to access the Meh suite of sites, and Woot, and (shudder) Facebook.
I use Internet Explorer (I’m still on Win7, thank goodness) to access Gmail, and the rest of the Google suite of things, and almost always use “goosh” to access Google indirectly, on those rare occasions where I need to look something up.
I use Firefox for most everything else, although I like it less each time I’m forced into an upgrade.
The new and improved Chrome browser makes me want to stab my eyes repeatedly. I hate it a lot. I’m going to go outside and admire the real world for a while.
@Shrdlu we strive for tech-diversity as well. That means email addresses from each of the “big three”, the three browsers, both iOS and Android, Google home and Alexa, three FB profiles, different usernames for different purposes, etc…
That results in at least the illusion of improved privacy/anonymity.
there might be a theme out-there to re-skin
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/themes
Google took something that worked fine and was nearly visually perfect and ruined it. All pages are slower to load, as if the visual enhancements are bogging down the processor.
Sounds like they screwed Chrome the way they screwed up an at least choatically familiar Gmail webmail user interface. The new one is slowwww and unresponsive.