Chrome address bar font size is ridiculously oversized

[Doomlord]

Recently, with the arrival of the new Chrome 29 update, the address bar is now ludicrously oversized and totally ruins my (together with many others') web-browsing experience. Therefore, I advise that those who are yet to update shouldn't update your Chrome to 29 (a how-to is available here).

Attached below is a screenshot to show how the current address bar of Chrome 29 is just horrible comparing to Firefox.

And no it is not a bug, they said it is a part of the update as base for the next one

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Of course one could choose to adapt to this change. If that is the case, be my guest :3

 

[Occult Glider]

Profiled.

 

[GhostWolf]

This surmises my response.

And yes, I am completely and utterly ridiculing you.

Not that I like Chrome very much, but you can't beat it performance-wise. Firefox is such a slow piece of garbage (talking mainly about SpiderMonkey versus V8).
And yet there are apparently people that a couple of pixels RUIN THEIR BROWSING EXPERIENCE (which means nothing because it's a marketing term).

Firefox's tab name is bigger than Chrome's. I think you should find yourself a new browser (IE for example has them on the same line. Go for it, your BROWSING EXPERIENCE will improve by over 9000!).

 

[Doomlord]

I think you are misunderstanding me somehow

I am just saying that those who may feel uncomfortable with this change should not update their Chrome. I never explicitly mention that Firefox is better than Chrome or that people should use a different browser. I myself use Firefox for now as an alternative browser but I don't tell others to switch as I do.

What matters here is not a couple of pixel but how it breaks the "usualness" of how they have always used the browser. It is, to me at least, repulsive and quite hard to adapt to. That is what I mean by browsing experience in its entirety. I reckon that it is the correct term to use here. If I am wrong, I definitely will apologize and make a fix.

Thank you for your response after reading this. Your input is valued.

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Just to reinforce my earlier claim of how many people share this feeling with me, here are some links:

• Chromium forum discussion.
• Google Group.

Do a google search for more discussions of this topic.