[teraflop]

Although I can sympathize, I don't really understand the point of opening a new issue when all the same information has already been left in comments on the old closed issue.

If the new issue gets closed, then it just reaffirms that the Chromium team doesn't care about this feature request. If the new issue somehow convinces the team to do something about it, then it shows that the team is utterly dysfunctional because their decision-making is more influenced by whether you say "pretty pretty please" in the right way than by the content of the discussion.

[rocqua]

Further discussion on that closed issue is no longer possible right? So any new information that might cause a re-evaluation needs to be presented in a new issue.

The new information here seems to be 'most people thought the previous decision was bad', rather than 'please I really want this'. Changing an old decision because most people think it was bad is not a sign of utter dysfunction.

[JyrkiAlakuijala]

Further discussion is possible there. It just does not get triaged like a new bug.

[izacus]

"most people" of which group thought that?