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Comment by Jemaclus | Hacker News Reader

I updated my Chrome today (Mac OSX) and the graphics took a huuuuge step backward. Almost like someone accidentally published the Linux build to the Mac link. A couple of my friends have reported the same experience, but I don't see anything official about this. Am I going to have to attempt to downgrade to get the better UI back?

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It's the new "material design". You can disable it in chrome://flags to get the non Windows 95 style back. I too hate it. Not sure what the recent design trend of sucking all colour from UIs is hoping to achieve.

Thanks, those 5 minutes were really uncomfortable. Apparently some people are really into sad UIs.

Just know that that flag will not stick around. It will be removed at some point, the rule of thumb is 2 major updates, so 12 weeks.

If you have actual issues with the new design, file bugreports or issues.

Where they will sit ignored and unaddressed like literally every complaint about crappy browser UI.

(Me, bitter?)

Not sure what Linux has to do with anything; a Linux build would simply not run on OSX.

What do you mean the graphics took a huge step backward? You don't like the new UI, or stuff like WebGL/HTML5 Canvas is performing poorly?

Personally I prefer the new UI, better suits El Capitan's return to a more clean, flat look.

When they eventually remove the Material UI toggle from chrome://flags, I'd recommend installing a Chrome theme that you like rather than rolling back actual security patches and bug fixes.

https://chrome.googleblog.com/2016/08/flash-and-chrome.html?... also echoes what you say:

  I don't know what you guys changed under the hood, but I'm
  experiencing the exact opposite of your first paragraph claims:
  most videos don't work, and it's draining my macbook's battery
  at an unprecedented rate. I can live with my flash videos not
  working, but the reduced battery life is making chrome
  unusable.

I'm getting frequent graphics glitches on my MbP

Can you please file a bug at crbug.com/new ?

Why would he file a bug for a UI change?

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