Google Nukes Black Horizontal Nav Bar for Pull-Down Menu

[stephenkendrick]

Umm... how do you hover on a touch/mouse-less device?

 

[f-14]

[citation][nom]beayn[/nom]I miss the simple, featureless Google that made them popular. The hospital I work at still has many old Athlon Dual core systems that they won't be upgrading for another year or so. "Google Instant" bogs these things down like nothing before. I've had so many tickets put in for "google keeps freezing" it's ridiculous. I'm betting this new menu thing is going to bog them down even more.While they're also so concerned about saving a few pixels at the top of the screen by getting rid of menu bars, address bars, favorites bars etc, they need to start convincing web devs to make their sites as wide as most widescreen monitors. I'm typing this into Tom's which is like 640 pixels wide on a screen that's nearly 3x as wide. I don't get the "minimalist" obsession when talking about vertical pixels when most websites have massive empty spaces on both sides anyway.[/citation]
that's pretty funny. maybe you should downgrade all their stuff to single core althon xp chips or p4 socket 478. i still have computers running those that handle running 2 games, mp3s, several documents and about 7 tabs on chrome all at the same time. the only thing that bogs them down is the flash ads and that's just with one-3 pages open only, nothing else. with the way those things try to stream tv commercials to your pc, that's what's usually causing the freeze. just uninstall flash and set internet settings to high if your company won't pay for ad blocking software or your time to cutomize internet explorer settings to eliminate bandwidth/cpu hogging ads.

 

[Guest]

What i see at www.google.com?
this ugly pop-out coming on default... WTF?

I want my black nav bar back.

 

[beayn]

[citation][nom]f-14[/nom]that's pretty funny. maybe you should downgrade all their stuff to single core althon xp chips or p4 socket 478. i still have computers running those that handle running 2 games, mp3s, several documents and about 7 tabs on chrome all at the same time. the only thing that bogs them down is the flash ads and that's just with one-3 pages open only, nothing else. with the way those things try to stream tv commercials to your pc, that's what's usually causing the freeze. just uninstall flash and set internet settings to high if your company won't pay for ad blocking software or your time to cutomize internet explorer settings to eliminate bandwidth/cpu hogging ads.[/citation]

Chrome. These are IE8, which might have something to do with it.

 

[Guest]

I like this new design, which is much better than the black thing on the top all the time.

 

[Guest]

I'm very unhappy with googles new tool bar. It's slower, and takes up more screen space, not less. overall it's a tool.

 

[Guest]

I never got it... I still have the black bar. Delete temp files and cookies and still nothing. WTF?