The new version is horrible. I've been very frustrated by this change.
They really dumbed it down. This is happening to many web sites, as they compete for the smartphone user, who has a tiny screen, so can't see much.
I used to use yahoo finance, until yahoo ruined that site. Now it takes forever to fire up, because videos load and start playing, and they download the whole database of stock symbols when the page fires up so they can guide you as you type. (Google does this thru the network!)
So I've been using google finance every day for the past few months, and now suddenly it is worthless. Not only the problems you cite, but also they've ruined the charts. They draw a curve no matter what the volume is. If you're looking at a thinly traded stock, you want to see those disjoint lines, so you can see that it is thinly traded. Now they just draw a curve, whether it means anything or not. No option for OHLC bar chart.