[Liquidor]

I use Chrome. I'm a fan of the change.

The old bottom bar was annoying in different ways (taking up viewport space, disappearing when you still needed the shortcuts, downloads not being visible across windows etc.).

I like it when the Chrome team writes blog posts explaining their changes rather than just the "What's New" infobox once in a while :-)

Whether someone else did it first... Who cares. The browser is a utility. If someone else has a better way of doing things then why not bring that to your users too if it works well. Just like water, power and any other utilities.

[smashed]

Nothing wrong with applying tried and tested UI elements, that's how the majority of GUI software is built.

Coming up with a long winded article about how you invented a new way of managing your downloads and how great you are for coming up with this new way of doing things when you actually mostly copied your main competitor's UI is disengenious.

[wink]

I use chrome and firefox and I couldn't tell you any differences between the two download windows without looking at them. Neither party managed to break it in the last 15? or so years. I click on files and then I find them in the download window.