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Looks like someone at Google is working on this actually. Found this in chrome://flags

New Downloads UI Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS

Disables the download shelf. Will show the new downloads UI as it is implemented.

This flag exists since chrome://flags exists. I always enabled it (due to the shitty download bar), but never saw a new UI, even 2 years later.

There is some "new UI" insofar as the "Keep"/"Discard" Buttons for "dangerous" files are now in the Download Window. Maybe they were talking about that... Who knows

The only difference, that i was able to make out, is that it disables the bar. But it does say "Will show the new downloads UI as it is implemented." as you point out, so it may still be a work in progress, although i have been seeing it for some time now in about flags. More than a few months actually.

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