Updated Edge and it now seems to put a frame with rounded corners around every website

No corner. Only Edge.

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Wha... Why are you using Edge?
I'm so confused

Sure they can add rounded corners but can they fix this mess?

I gotta say I love that Microsoft has the self confidence to think that there are people who use edge on Linux.

Softer...like they just wanted to take the edge off.

I'll see myself out now.

As it's Microsoft, you can be pretty sure the option to turn off the new look and feel will be removed in 6 months

Smartphones: Rounded everything, nobody actually likes it. Edge:

That way you can't cut yourself on the sharp edges

I... Kind of like it?

Use Linux and Firefox

If you're lucky, it'll follow along with Chrome and start sharing your browser history to advertisers, too!

Use Firefox

I've noticed that there's a shift in UI design currently back to the 2000s style of round UI design, which eventually moved out of the way for nice straight crisp corners when we shifted from CRTs to LCDs which could render pixel perfect images at last.

We never limited the viewport on a browser of course, that's madness. But just look at XP's bubbly design and interfaces of the time vs Win8/10's very angular, clean crisp interface.

I do hope we're not descending back into an age of curves, I'm not a fan. But styles come and go every few decades, and maybe younger people today are ready to experience their "age of curves" for the first time?

I sort of understand rounding outside edges for aesthetics since there's nothing lost and it might be easier as a target for resizing, but inside corners are just stupid. You're arbitrarily cutting corners out of content for no good reason.

Guess they're going for the CRT look? Next up, all pages default to 4:3?

Probably to match windows 11 borders

They can't even make it consistent. The border radius on the tabs, the URL bar, and the main page are all different.

Edge corners the market!

Counter opinion: I think the rounded corners look nice. And do a good job matching up with the windows 11 aesthetic

Settings -> Appearance -> disable 'Try new look'

I actually like rounded corners but I wouldn't ever touch Edge.

I get we're all old blokes and don't like change, but these rounded corners and UI changes are arguably better. Nothing wrong with a new modern look

Uh, I use Gnome and rounded corners are all around the gnome apps I use. I wouldn't use Edge, but I'd like to see Chrome have this.

I blame Apple for that trend.

It's like 20 years on and the rest of the world is still trying to ape it.

The real mildlyinfuriating part is that they probably got inspired by Arc, a relatively new browser. They already copied how their window splitting works.

Pretty crappy for MS not to have good designers themselves and then copy (often poorly) what one of the small players is doing.

The rounded corners part of Web 2.0 was honestly the worst.

Edge is copying a lot of stuff from the yet-to-be-released-on-Windows arc browser. This is one of them. They seem to have not added the other stuff that interfaces with it like the one window split screen.

Nice security feature, you don't know how many people get hurt by those angular corners.

Rounded is the new thing? Aren't YouTube videos also rounded now

I actually like it tbh

I remember a version of Chrome in the early days where I feel like they finally got the UI perfect. Of course, it's been changed a hundred times since then. Can't developers just leave well enough alone?

Edit: Within a day of posting this, I started getting pop-ups in Chrome saying something to the effect of "You can change the appearance of Chrome". I changed it alright. I'm using Firefox now.

A E S T H E T I C S

The text overlap really gives

Oh god, this is going to be the next must-have design for everything, isn't it? Argh.

Fuuuuck edge

to help you protect your data

Somehow that bothers me...

Might be that this is just part of the Chrome/ium Redesign 2023 that just startet to get published.

Opera did it, and since opera's always the first to bring any useful featurse, other browsers usually just follow troop.

Opera did it well - if this is edge's attempt and you use that as main browser, I feel sad for ya!

Bro I don't understand why would anyone use chromium? Its fucking shit!

Doesn't appear to have been rolled out for all markets (yet), or perhaps they excluded/disabled it for Win10 users. I still have my edged corners with the latest update.

Web 2.0.2.0

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I think this was kind of copied of arc browser

I will write an unpopular statement:

I use Microsoft edge even on Linux because it's the only browser that has an option to save temporary downloads in /tmp instead of littering /downloads with unwanted trash. I open 100s of PDFs every day and the behavior of every browser to save in downloads without my consent is infuriating. Firefox allowed this but then they really had to copy the behavior of Google chrome. Reverting to the old behavior requires too many hacks, it's easier to uninstall and use Edge

laughs in Linux

god that looks ugly

How about not using that shitshow?

God you poor thing! Are you okay? You'll get through this, don't worry.