{"id":44925,"date":"2023-08-26T00:06:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T00:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/26\/chrome-got-rid-of-the-downloads-bar-heres-how-to-defy-the-cruel-whims-of-google-and-get-it-back\/"},"modified":"2023-08-26T15:40:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T15:40:24","slug":"chrome-got-rid-of-the-downloads-bar-heres-how-to-defy-the-cruel-whims-of-google-and-get-it-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/26\/chrome-got-rid-of-the-downloads-bar-heres-how-to-defy-the-cruel-whims-of-google-and-get-it-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrome removed the downloads bar: this is the right way to defy the merciless whims of Google and get it again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Even good UI modifications are met with hostility from belligerent software program customers who <em>preferred issues the best way they had been<\/em>, so I will not declare to know whether or not or not the selection to maneuver Chrome&#8217;s downloads checklist from a bar on the backside of the display screen to a tray on the prime proper is nice UX design or not. I am going to simply meet it with hostility.<\/p>\n<p>Till at the moment, I used to be dwelling in a dreamlike state of delusion over the lack of Chrome&#8217;s obtain bar. I tilted my head at its absence each time I downloaded one thing, however slightly than believing that some merciless Silicon Valley fiend would actually transfer my downloads from the place they have been since earlier than I even began utilizing Chrome\u2014so, for many years\u2014I shook it off, discovered the file in Explorer, and left the thriller for one more day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garrynewman\/status\/1695099815623868419?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garrynewman\/status\/1695099815623868419?s=20\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check=\"\">\n<div class=\"image-full-width-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-widthsetter\" style=\"max-width:769px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:32.51%;\"><picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" alt=\"@garrynewman: Chrome moving the downloads to the top right has ruined my entire life\" class=\" lazy-image-van\" onerror=\"if(this.src &amp;&amp; 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he wrote.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"hawk-nest\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\"\/>\n<p>The replace occurred on August 2, and makes Chrome extra like Firefox and Edge, which additionally show latest downloads in a tray that sits minimized to the proper of the handle bar on the prime of the display screen. I suppose obtain trays that run alongside the underside of the browser and show file names in massive, apparent bins are old style. What&#8217;s cool now, apparently, is looking amongst all of your Extension icons to search out the downward-pointing arrow behind which hides the .zip file you need to open, or the .jpg whose listing you need to navigate to.<\/p>\n<p>Not in my home!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I modified it again, and you may, too. <strong>Here is how get the Chrome obtain bar again:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Enter <strong>chrome:\/\/flags<\/strong> into the Chrome handle bar, which is able to take you to its &#8220;experimental&#8221; characteristic settings<\/li>\n<li>Discover &#8220;Allow obtain bubble&#8221; and set it to &#8220;Disabled&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Relaunch Chrome<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Do this, and your downloads will as soon as once more seem side-by-side in little bins in a thick bar that, now that I take a look at it once more, does appear fairly old style. Simply how I prefer it.<\/p>\n<p>There is no assure that the choice to disable the brand new UI will stick round, so possibly sometime I will be compelled to go on with out my cozy shelf filled with .rar information and .jpgs and information that I assumed had been .jpgs however had been truly .webps. 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