While the convenience of Chrome’s ability to link with a Google account, and the constant introduction of innovative features, the experience is quite impressive. However, if you are a friend who often uses browsers to download data, I believe that Google’s experience in this area does not seem to be quite intuitive and easy to use – or should I say that I haven’t seen related improvements for a long time? In this regard, the Chrome development team seems to be actively seeking changes through the Canary version recently. Continue reading the redesigned Google Chrome download interface brings more intuitive operation evolution report inside.
▲ Source of this picture: Leopeva64-2 (Reddit)
Redesigned Google Chrome download interface brings more intuitive operation evolution
Maybe it’s because many people jokingly call IE the Chrome downloader can’t move The inspiration for the revision caused by the news of the official retirement (mistaken). Google’s experience with the download feature of its signature browser has been a lot of activity lately. Not only the part of the interface has been adjusted, but even the supported operations have been improved.
In the part of the interface, you can see the download sequence interface that would have taken up space at the bottom and made the wide screen narrower. It has been changed to a download symbol integrated in the toolbar to the right of the URL bar, and will display the download progress in the form of the full weight of the circle as the file download is in progress.
Originally, the interface would be arranged one by one like cards at the bottom, although it allows people to quickly grasp the download status of multiple files. However, it still makes people feel annoyed about taking up the upper and lower space of ordinary web pages – at least I do, so usually when starting a download, this column will be turned off, and then there will be no more (often when the browser is closed, I think it is still downloading) …
It feels like this new interface is about to become the official version of the function (after all, it has been improved through the second update). In addition to confirming the total download progress by referring to the circle, you can also click the button to start a floating window to display the status of all downloaded items in a straight line; for individual files, you can directly select “Cancel” to end the download. Or right-click to open the advanced menu. It can be paused, or you can choose how to handle such files, such as whether to execute directly after the download is complete.
After the latest Canary update, a user from the Reddit forum discovered a new “secret” description. It’s that this new download page for Chrome doesn’t just support right-click functionality. It can directly perform related operations on the target file by dragging/dropping. What he demonstrates is that by directly dragging and dropping items in the list to the desktop, you can complete the advanced operation of moving files from the recently downloaded folder to the desktop or other folders, or even applications such as Photoshop for processing.
That is to say, this kind of operation and interface, for the author who uses the Firefox browser as the main browser for work, everything feels so familiar (laughs). Speaking of the interface of this floating download window, on Chrome, there is probably an “X” in the upper right corner that can clear the list at one time. Including the information and menu of the download list, and the operation method that can be directly dragged and dropped are really very similar.
I can only repeat an old saying again, that is, this is the same as swimming and running, and it is not… (taken away by covering mouth)
Further reading:
iOS 16 actually has the ability to skip CAPTCHA authentication pictures