Bridge 2023 and 2024 is practically unusable

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September 25, 2023
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Dear folks in the Bridge team! It's beyond understanding how you don't realize, these versions of Bridge are a big failure!? It's like an early beta version. But already 2 years in beta...

Compared to version 12, the newer versions have numerous bugs, the UI is almost non-responsive, etc. The overall feel of the software is like a bunch of libraries put together in a hurry, by a student.

Annoying things:

- The window often misses the clicks. Yes, clicking in the window, too often does nothing. Tested on multiple computers. (I have to connect this bug with the annoying sticky hand tool bug where the mouse button release is missed, making the hand tool and the lasso tool unusable in photoshop, and Lightroom Classic is affected as well with this sticky hand tool).

- Scrolling is painfully slow, to the point of unusable. I see, the scrollbars were reinvented, just to break the things, because there are absolutely no benefits having some super minimalist fancy scrollbars. Instead of fixing the bugs, the team was busy reinventing the wheel.

- Search is slow. I'm typing the file/folder name, then the window stays, doing nothing, then after some time passes it jumps to the target. But careful, because if something isn't focused well, search isn't working.

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- Countless UI glitches, like awful blue focus outlines, bright white title bars of windows, forgotten menu separators, etc. Even amateur software writers care about these.

- Countless other issues, mentioned by other members in this forum.

I had to reinstall v12, that's the last usable version.

About refunds: due to a non-working software and broken features, do we have a refund?

Correct answer Loop1Photography

I'm happy to report here it seems the most recent version of Bridge has addressed the issues I personally had with other post 2022 versions of the software. If you haven't yet tried it, you can keep the older version installed by unchecking the checkbox that would otherwise remove the old version. I still have both versions installed pending further testing but for now, problem solved!

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Swati Agarwal

Adobe Employee

Hi,

The latest Beta build 14.0.1.128 has fix for this issue along with few other performance optimisations and bug fixes.
For a complete list of fixes available in the Beta build, please refer to the community post : 
https://community.adobe.com/t5/bridge-discussions/adobe-bridge-beta-is-now-available-14-0-1-128/td-p/14189891

Kindly try this build and share your feedback.
 
Regards,
Bridge Team

NetPixel StudioAuthor

Known Participant

@Swati Agarwal I downloaded the latest beta version and I can confirm that the scroll speed has returned to its normal state. For the moment I am still using Bridge v12 (12.0.4.286) on my production workstations since it's fast and free of those newly introduced UI/UX glitches. Can your IT team re-analyze that v12 iteration of Bridge to see/feel the real difference? A question in parathesis: it was really necessary to rewrite the whole thing?

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Lumigraphics

Brainiac

I use Bridge at work in a production workflow for product photography. I'm still on 2022 because the two recent versions are unusable. Its like the dev team never heard of either Visual Studio or XCode and they are using some crummy internal cross-platform toolkit for even basic stuff like windows and menus. There are glaring bugs, UI mistakes, misfeatures, and general sloppiness everywhere. How many bugs did I report in PR that still haven't been fixed or are even worse? A lot...

There was so much opportunity given that this was a rewrite, and what you came up with is worthless. Bridge 2022 gets a C- grade from me, 2023 gets an F, 2024 gets a D-.

NetPixel

Inspiring

The latest versions of Bridge is clearly a bad example of a software house product as "To have something". Look at other image managers, like FastStone, XnView, ACDSee, etc., how smooth is the experience using those, everything is working as expected, everything is common sense, etc.
I just don't get it, for example this scroll speed issue is packed in the production release of the software and it's beyond understanding, how is that nobody notices, it's SLOOW. Yet they are happy and they advertise Bridge 14 as something exceptional...

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marionr

New Participant

I totally agree. After having spent hours, days and weeks exploring the promise of Adobe Bridge I find it seriously lacking. After repeated tries on my own to export my starred images without downloading the entire card of 5000k+ photosand painstakingly starring the chose ones it repeatedly dismisses the star and downloads the entire card defeating the purpose of trying to not fill my hard drive with unwanted files. It is USELESS and I have lost time Icannot get back. Does anyine from Adobe read this. Just to be certain I once again called Adobe and after three hours with an Adobe representative his determination was it's not possible to export to LrC.