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Created page with "<div style="font-size:200%; letter-spacing:0.5em; text-align:center;">Everything <span style="color:red;">wrong</span> with <br /><div style="display:inline-block; background-color: white; border-radius:10px;">frameless|alt=Google Chrome mobile</div></div> ---- One would expect Google Chrome, the most widely used mobile web browser, to be the pinnacle of mobile web browsing. However, as it turns out, it is popular fo..." |
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<div style="font-size:200%; letter-spacing:0.5em; text-align:center;">Everything <span style="color: | <div style="font-size:200%; letter-spacing:0.5em; text-align:center;"><span style="color:#4285F4;">Everything</span> <span style="color:#EA4335;">wrong</span> <span style="color:#FBBC05;">with</span> <br /><div style="display:inline-block; background-color: white; border-radius:10px;">[[File:Google Chrome logo and wordmark (2015).png|frameless|alt=Google Chrome mobile]]</div></div> | ||
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Let's get the "elephant in the room" out of the way first. The constant threat of accidentally refreshing a page has turned browsing with Chrome into a headache since 2019. | Let's get the "elephant in the room" out of the way first. The constant threat of accidentally refreshing a page has turned browsing with Chrome into a headache since 2019. | ||
In spite of the abnormally high number of complaints by users suffering from accidental refreshes, Google has refused to reinstate the option to turn off this anti-feature. It seems to be part of Google's brand identity.<ref>[https://archive.today/2024.09.04-094015/https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41471115 Please bring back ability to disable Android pull-down-to-refresh. I lost my work because the feature. | In spite of the abnormally high number of complaints by users suffering from accidental refreshes, Google has refused to reinstate the option to turn off this anti-feature. It seems to be part of Google's brand identity.<ref>[https://archive.today/2024.09.04-094015/https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41471115 Please bring back ability to disable Android pull-down-to-refresh. I lost my work because the feature. [41471115] - Chromium]</ref><ref>[https://archive.today/2025.10.07-180843/https://issues.chromium.org/issues/391378124 No way to disable pull-to-refresh [391378124] - Chromium]</ref><ref>[https://megalodon.jp/2025-0111-2220-13/https://support.google.com:443/chrome/thread/8391096/wanting-to-know-how-to-disable-pull-to-refresh-as-it-s-no-longer-showing-up-in-flags?hl=en Wanting to know how to disable pull to refresh as it's no longer showing up in flags - Google Chrome Community]</ref><ref>[https://megalodon.jp/2025-0701-0647-33/https://support.google.com:443/chrome/thread/8152831 Missing Android Chrome 75 flags disable-pull-to-refresh-effect How to disable it now? - Google Chrome Community]</ref> | ||
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Websites look wildly different from each other. Some websites are designed in a way where it isn't clearly visible where the top of the page is. On those sites, pull-to-refresh makes web browsing a walk on eggshells. | Websites look wildly different from each other. Some websites are designed in a way where it isn't clearly visible where the top of the page is. On those sites, pull-to-refresh makes web browsing a walk on eggshells. | ||
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The quick menu has icons. From what I remember, they were added in 2020 or 2021. This is something Firefox on desktop once had, but it was removed [[Firefox#Removal_of_icons_from_the_main_menu_(2022)|because Mozilla's developers decided it was "clutter"]], even though it helps finding an option faster. | The quick menu has icons. From what I remember, they were added in 2020 or 2021. This is something Firefox on desktop once had, but it was removed [[Firefox#Removal_of_icons_from_the_main_menu_(2022)|because Mozilla's developers decided it was "clutter"]], even though it helps finding an option faster. | ||
The URL visible in the URL bar is not shortened to the domain name like it is on Safari (which invented this design) and Samsung Internet. This means, "example.org/test.html" is not shortened to "example.org" in the URL bar. | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
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