{"id":183289,"date":"2022-02-10T12:31:15","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T11:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=183289"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:56:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:56:48","slug":"chome-download-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/chome-download-button\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome to receive new animated download icon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Google Chrome<\/strong>&#8216;s traditional <strong>download bar<\/strong> will soon be replaced by an animated download button that is more streamlined and offers more useful information about progress and details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ever-popular <a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"Chrome\">Chrome<\/a> <strong>web browser<\/strong> is constantly receiving updates that all aim to improve its overall user experience. One particular addition that came back in December 2021 introduced a new <strong>download icon<\/strong> that&#8217;s located along the top toolbar, right of the URL address bar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chrome is used and enjoyed by millions of people all across the world, for both daily web browsing and <a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.en.softonic.com\/articles\/best-chrome-productivity-extensions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"productivity\">productivity<\/a>. While it has established a name for itself when it comes to <strong>speed and stability<\/strong>, the overall user experience is not quite on par with other competing options in the market. One aspect that could use more work is how it handles <strong>downloading files<\/strong> over the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It used to be that downloads are <strong>individually displayed<\/strong> across a bar located at the bottom. It&#8217;s handy for glanceable information, but it can get cluttered real quick just like how tabs can often <a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.en.softonic.com\/articles\/how-to-group-tabs-in-chrome-in-5-fast-steps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"get out of control\">get out of control<\/a>. The new download button aims to address this by consolidating them all inside a <strong>drop-down list<\/strong>, accessible via the top toolbar row to the right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s more, the icon itself is <strong>animated<\/strong> to help indicate download progress. Clicking on it will show a small pop-up window containing <strong>Recent Downloads<\/strong>. There&#8217;s a <strong>Show all downloads<\/strong> button at the bottom should you wish to browse through all of your files. There&#8217;s no official word yet on when the revamped download manager will be implemented, but it should make its way to the Chrome Canary channel any time now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Chrome&#8216;s traditional download bar will soon be replaced by an animated download button that is more streamlined and offers more useful information about progress and details. The ever-popular Chrome web browser is constantly receiving updates that all aim to improve its overall user experience. One particular addition that came back in December 2021 introduced &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/chome-download-button\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Chrome to receive new animated download icon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9226,"featured_media":183298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2378],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-183289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionchrome"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324416,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183289\/revisions\/324416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183289"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=183289"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=183289"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=183289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}