Ugly Black Border, Ugly Chrome

Derek Ji
1 min readJun 2, 2020

Lately I found there are always black borders around the links, just like below:

Black Outline

I thought it a bug in some websites, but it turns out to be a new feature in Chrome as I accidentally viewed the same sites in Edge and did not get the same issue.

That’s so ugly that I cannot believe it could be an important feature in the new release of Chrome.

Our clients start complaining from this Monday. I explained but still had to make some work-around changes to remove the disgusting outlines.

Personally I am just simply disabling the flag: chrome://flags/#form-controls-refresh in Chrome but I cannot ask all our clients to do so.

Bad feature, bad chrome.

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