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Re:Stop Changing UIs for No Good Reason by theGimp on Thursday November 20, 2014 @09:55AM (#8635972) 

   The thing I'm hating is that they've managed to completely screw up Chrome by getting rid of tabs
Go into Chrome's settings and restore them.
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Re:Stop Changing UIs for No Good Reason by hackmiester on Thursday November 20, 2014 @10:16AM (#8636074)
I don't think users should have to tick the "behave in a less broken way" box.
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Re:Stop Changing UIs for No Good Reason by Mikeb85 on Thursday November 20, 2014 @11:01AM (#8636334)
Except the new way works better, and casual users who are used to the concept of 'an app for everything' won't mind...
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Re:Stop Changing UIs for No Good Reason by hackmiester on Thursday November 20, 2014 @11:37AM (#8636565)
I don't agree. Users understand a browser, and that it contains tabs. I'm sure people will get used to the new way, probably, but it's not something that was in need of innovation. It was well understood.

The new behavior is surprising to people who have used any phone browser before, and it will continue to be surprising to people who use their desktop browsers as a point of reference.

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Re:Stop Changing UIs for No Good Reason by yuriks on Thursday November 20, 2014 @05:45PM (#8638666)
Most casual users (family, non-tech saavy people) that I've seen don't even use the task switch button. They go to the home screen and then open whatever app they want, even if it ought to be in the task list already most of the time.
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