
with the address bar at the top… this would not have happened. Say “file” “edit” “view” “history” “help” “bookmarks” “downloads” all at the top of the screen with the tabs below. Now, if they had WORDS on instead of these stupid icons, it would not matter. I rarely use the browser, but apparently this happened months, if not a year, ago, and documentation still refers to the “wrench” icon. Its Chrome team headache’s to update all their Chrome browser help pages with this change, but from now onwards we need to mention this icon for e.g “click on hotdogs icon” instead of “click on wrench icon”, it sounds/seems not good. This requires revised ConOps documentation, a blog post, and new assets for all desktop clients.Īny implications for Google webservices (i.e. Here is the Chrome team discussion on Issue 137744: Hotdogs menu icon on all desktop platforms revealsĭescription: We want to switch the “Wrench menu” out with the new hotdogs icon. Chrome Wrench icon to be removed and replaced by a new icon called “hotdogs” The new Hotdogs icon seems related to foodie stuff which is favored by the Chrome team, you can see how this icon looks on the Chrome toolbar on Mac OS X from the screenshot below. The wrench icon has been part of Chrome till now, this icon resembles the meaning of settings. And interesting part, it is going to be replaced by the Hotdogs icon. Chrome to get a minor change, the wrench icon on the Chrome toolbar which allows us to access the ‘Settings’ menu has to go for all desktop platforms, as decided by the Chrome team.
