I don't see the need for the extension icon to be moved to its own small box in the search bar, it was perfectly functional where it was and now it's more of an eyesore, as instead of being alongside the other icons like bookmark, download and settings, it's on its own with a purple bar and a line between it and the searchbar's box.
Also:
Did anybody do testing with larger numbers of tabs? I know it's not the prettiest thing even in a well-formatted browser, but I'm familiar with my tabs and I used to easily be able to navigate them. Now it's just. Yikes.
All I want is a functional browser. I don't want AI integration that I'll never use, I don't want flashier UIs that're distracting and lose functionality, I don't care at all for changing rectangles to have rounded corners.
I'd appreciate if you put development time into fixing issues like the browser conveniently never remembering our preferences when we click "never show again" on the banner ads you shove on our start page, or the website links you shove next to our speed dial. I will go out of my way to avoid those sites out of spite whenever I see things like this, shoving them in my face doesn't work.
I've had lots of people tell me to switch to firefox, might do it now because of this ugly changes.