Use of real estate is entirely valid here because the point of a web browser is to view content. If the content area can be increased by reducing the chrome, then this is a good thing. If the reduction of chrome is not detrimental to average UX, then we're still on the winning side. This isn't about minimalist…

You don't have to choose between two bars. you just type and choose the result. It's simpler.

Why is it beneficial, though? What is the actual benefit of a combined location/search bar? Also, how do those benefits outweigh the drawbacks? There's no objective answer (to the latter, in particular), but we can still be more concrete in how we approach the question than this.

How is it an extra step when typing in most search strings allows you choose autocompletion along the way, which many people do and find a plus (no pun intended)? In terms of expected process to complete a task, this 'extra step' seems more like a parallel operation.

Yep. And that's still an extra step necessitated by what what sold by Google as a simplification and labor-saving measure. It's not, and every fix or workaround basically begs the question of what the actual benefit of trying to combine two entirely different activities into a single UI element is. It would be one…

I was never able to use to Opera as my primary browser, both because it always felt a little more bloated than Firefox, and because I always ran into some site or another than didn't render quite right. But I really liked what it was trying to do. I haven't used it since version 12, though, and I'm sad to hear that…

Because searching and entering a URL are two different activities, no matter how much certain search engine providers want to combine the two. If I want to search for the phrase "gizmodo.com," I don't necessarily want to go to http://gizmodo.com/. The design is also more cluttered, due to having to combine both URL…

I can't speak for "people," but I've never liked the thing. From day one, I hated the dumbed-down UI that manages to look entirely out of place on every operating system it runs on and complicates what should be simple tasks in the name of streamlining (combining the location and search fields, for instance, or hiding…

The color scheme strikes me as very much in keeping with the precedent of The Flash, which also features a much more drab color scheme than you see in the comics. Unfortunately, I think we're stuck with it. At least it's pretty close to the original look otherwise.

This is why I don't watch SM64 speed runs without first turning off my speakers....

That's what ruins it for me, personally. The basic look is a good one, but that power button symbol is just so... tacky.

I'm reminded of the old canoncal explanation why Batman used to have a bright yellow oval on his chest. It was, supposedly, to get criminals to shoot him in his chest, which was kevlar-lined, and not his head, which wasn't. Of course, said explanation avoided the issue of why you'd want to give criminals a nice big…

Wasn't the idea in the suit's original appearance in Zero Mission that Samus had been unexpectedly separated from her power suit? Doesn't explain why she keeps losing it since then, though.

Some of these designs are great, and none of them are terrible. Except for Power Girl. I don't have any love for her current costume (actually, I was disappointed when it was brought back by DC Comics), and the jacket isn't a bad touch... but that "power button" motif is a bit too much for me.

Yeah. The power build-up wasn't an all-at-once thing. It started, IIRC, with the "return of Barry Allen"/Reverse Flash story arc, and continued for another few years, culminating in "Terminal Velocity."

Interestingly, that was a fairly late addition to his character. For nearly the first 100 issues of his run (ahem) as the Flash, Wally was slowed down substantially from Barry (or, for that matter, from his own top speed as Kid Flash). He could barely make the speed of sound, and couldn't come anywhere near fast…

Eh. With the Legion, it's not the number of time travel-related continuity problems. For the most part, the series was pretty good about staying consistent with the rest of the DCU. It's just that, when there were problems, they tended to be really major and difficult to reconcile.

I'd still rather the show do a version of "The Flash of Two Worlds" using the 1990 show instead. While exploring the extent of his powers, F2 Barry accidentally vibrates himself into an alternate dimension based on the F1 series, projected 25 years into the future.

I'm surprised you manage to summarize time travel in the DCU without even a passing reference to Zero Hour, which was explicitly pitched as doing for DC's time line what Crisis on Infinite Earths did for the whole parallel universes business. It led to a hard reboot of several properties (including Hawkman and the…

In 30 years of collecting comics, and having read comics from every era going back to the 40's, I can't think of a single thing that either of the Big Two has done that was so poorly conceived, poorly designed, and poorly executed.