CONFUSED BRIDGE USER

For me, Bridge 2018 (verison 😎 was the last "good" version of Bridge. Since the 2019 user interface overhaul, it's been a constant struggle of usability decreases, bugs, and frustrating losses of once useful behaviors.

Swati,

Perhaps you could start with the entire problematic universe surrounding the feature View>Show Items from subfolders.  This is a feature that was severely crippled with the introduction of Br 13 and hasn’t significantly improved since that time. In some ways it is actually worse in 14 than it was in 13.

The fall-off in scroll speed, and the associated hesitant performance, (sticky, jumpy behavior), is more than enough to become a deal-breaker for those who remain loyal to Br 12.  In Br 12, scrolling is smooth and quick when browsing large numbers of assets in hierarchical folder structures displayed in a content panel. This is an activity that is common in high volume production studios and not something that should have been compromised so severely for the past two years of the Br 13/14 era.

Taking away the arrow keys on the vertical scroll bars only compounded the waste of time inflicted on customers.  Now, instead of being able to scroll quickly, page-by-page or line-by-line using only a mouse has become a problematic mess that is a constant annoyance. Being forced to waste time and attention moving back and forth between the mouse and the keyboard just to maintain a proper, efficient, and speedy grid-enforced scroll is an insult to your customers who have enjoyed this smooth and seamless performance for more than 15 years.

You might also look into the absurd crashing of Br every time one attempts to use View>Show Items from Subfolders when the path bar is not present in a customer designed workspace.  That is a recent development that trashes custom workspaces designed to eliminate the uselessly bloated vertical space the new Path Bar now wastes in the current configuration.  This bug has now made it into a released version of the application twice. That is beyond absurd. For amost two years there have been enough existing bugs to keep you busy playing Wack-A-Mole.  Why introduce new ones?

Finally, for Adobe to decide to allow docking of vertically designed feature panels to the horizontally designed pathbar location is a galactically stupid idea that serves no legitimate purpose that I can imagine.  Please enlighten us about why this is a good idea and I’ll listen.  Otherwise get rid of it.  Currently it is just another opportunity for a customer to make an accidental mistake when dragging feature panels around and then waste additional time trying to figure out how to un-do it.

Do things once, efficiently.

Do things automatically whenever possible.