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How to I stop tabs from blinking and freezing the windows

How to I stop tabs from blinking and freezing the windows forcing me to close it and open it again. It happens often I can just be google something and while I’m typing it freezes and the tab it self starts blink and sometimes it move to other tabs. I tried clearing memory, cache, cookies, and even history and nothing works. Everything was work perfectly fine on my Mac until I updated to the new os, could this be the source of my problem?

1 Comment
2024/11/04
04:40 UTC

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how to lock pop ups when clicking

for example on twitch you can open the stream in a pop up, i wanna watch while multi-tasking other apps but the moment i click outside the pop-up it disappears and have to open it again, how to lock it?

1 Comment
2024/11/03
21:36 UTC

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chrome is so slow for me.

ive deleted and reinstalled, restarted my mac, reset my wifi, and literally everything imaginable, and my chrome is still so. SLOW. everything i try to pull up just times out and its so bad to where i signed out and i cant even sign back in because the sign in screen TIMED OUT. this definitely isnt me, or my wifi because safari can pull up the same things without timing out. has this been a problem for anyone else?

4 Comments
2024/11/03
21:26 UTC

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Installed Chrome on MBA M3 - then Uninstalled In 5 Minutes

I've been Chrome-free for over 4 years and wanted to see how it works on M3 MBA. 5 tabs consumed more ram than 15 in Safari. Uninstalled straight away and removed all files. Does anyone else feel Chrome need a lighter version (like Chrome lite)?

4 Comments
2024/11/03
20:01 UTC

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Chrome keep switching hulu's location permission to block even after i change it.

Chrome keep switching hulu's location permission to block even after i change it. I will switch it to allow but it automatically switches back to block. Does anyone have a way to fix this?

1 Comment
2024/11/03
18:22 UTC

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Performance issues while gaming and trying to watch Twitch at the same time

So this just started within the last few months, but while playing a game now, my second monitor performance tanks. Most notably Twitch. I use to be able to game and watch Twitch with no issues. Now every stream lags badly, to the point its almost not moving. I can't for the life of me figure out what is causing this issue now. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

1 Comment
2024/11/03
17:55 UTC

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Some of my search results are russian and some websites even think i'm in Russia.

For context, i live in Italy and have never been to Russia, but ever since this morning me and a friend have reported seeing various russian URLs for seemingly no reason? (Used wikipedia as an example)
Tried switching accounts and the issue persisted, worth mentioning this happens on my phone aswell

2 Comments
2024/11/03
16:08 UTC

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Clear all cookies based on time or time duration

Is there a Chrome extension or third party software that will remove all cookies in Chrome at a specified time or after a specified time duration?

1 Comment
2024/11/03
14:46 UTC

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I'm tired of Manifest v3, it leaves a mess.

I tried to migrate my extension to manifest v3 a while ago, and I had to start tinkering with it, not to mention the code refactoring caused by switching service workers, registering listeners caused me a lot of trouble.

Manifest v3 requires listeners to be placed at the beginning of the code and need to be registered repeatedly, which makes conditional listener registration very troublesome. You will have to pre-register them and unregister them repeatedly, which is very anti-human and annoying.

Chrome should provide a way to keep registered listeners resident without being cleaned up.

4 Comments
2024/11/03
14:11 UTC

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Chrome keeps getting logged out

Hey Chrome users

Having a really annoying issue with Chrome on my laptop running Linux 22. Every time I restart or shut down my laptop, Chrome completely logs me out of everything - my Google account and all other websites I was logged into.

It's getting really frustrating having to log back into everything after each restart.

Has anyone encountered this before? Any idea what might be causing this and how to fix it?
Thanks in advance

1 Comment
2024/11/03
13:37 UTC

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How to Disable Resume Browsing History?

I really want to disable this feature. It’s incredibly annoying because I always use autocomplete in the search bar, and for the past week, pressing Enter often brings up the resume browsing history instead. How can I turn this off? It seems like all the flags to disable it are no longer available in the current Chrome version.

It's so frustrating that I'm actually considering switching browsers, even though I've been using Chrome for years.

1 Comment
2024/11/03
12:56 UTC

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Random websites getting pinned

Appreciate anyone who can help. I have a Macbook. Lately, I've noticed that when I use chrome, websites get randomly pinned. I don't pin any of the websites, they just randomly pin themselves. First I thought it was an extension like Coupert or Honey because it was usually shopping sites, but I've searched through those rigorously and Can't find anything. It's becoming a bit of a problem and an annoyance especially as it does it all the time. Any ideas on what this is and how to turn it off please?

Thank you!!

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2024/11/03
09:50 UTC

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Can I back Chrome's settings without the stupid syncing ?

Chrome policy of making a backup of settings based on syncing is really stupid on multiple levels, why do you even presume every1 is always online, willing to waste time, Internet bandwidth, lets not forget manually doing this to every single Windows of a friend/client/or even YOU on a dual OS environment ? I mean the "User Data" folder is on my HDD/SSD already, why'd I download every thing again from the beginning for god sake ??? do they understand that software should support something called portability and re-usability ?

I know they couple Windows SID with the settings, but its not really convenient to change Windows SID for every Windows you want.

4 Comments
2024/11/03
07:32 UTC

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How Do I Log Out Of My School Account?

To keep this short, no matter what I do when I attempt to log into my personal account it automatically takes me to my school login portal. I hadn’t noticed I was even logged in at first, as it just says “sign in” instead of showing my school account icon. This obviously isn’t ideal and it’s driving me up the wall knowing I can’t log out (there is no option to log out in settings). Do I delete the app? Reset my phone? Administration has blocked anything useful so I can’t just quickly google search this, sorry if it’s a stupid question. Any help at all would be appreciated and I can provide more details if it’s needed to fix the issue.

5 Comments
2024/11/03
04:31 UTC

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What happened I was in the middle of ea team builder and my screen went black then this popped up and wont close or anything

I was in the middle of ea team builder and my screen went black then this popped up and wont close or anything

1 Comment
2024/11/03
03:45 UTC

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Chrome Canary - Right click scroll gone

Yes, this is an unstable Chrome - I don't know if it's available to phone users - if we're not discussing it here and you need to delete, that's cool.

I'm sure some of you know that the right-click and scroll has been fixed in Canary. It was briefly broken again, but hopefully they are on top of it. Canary has other issues (off the top of my head, links aren't changing colour upon click) - but the scroll thing might interest some. I'm sure it'll come around to stable at some point, but I'm no expert.

0 Comments
2024/11/03
03:00 UTC

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"your admin has blocked his item"

Prob not right sub for this, how do I unblock extensions? I literally don't care if it's breaking the rules atp, I just want to get the "better canvas" extension. Also I have iboss, honorlock, and chrome remote desktop as I guess extensions the school installed if that helps. I can't do tests anymore, I'm literally failing because we have to take tests on canvas and we can't change the theme and i can't see jackshit cuz of the bright screen I can't focus literally help me 🤦🏻 also if this isnt the right sub tell me the right one

1 Comment
2024/11/03
02:32 UTC

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Google Lens seems to be getting worse at finding stuff

I mean, if I am looking for something to buy, like a bike lock or shirt that I take a snap of, it seems to be working okay. But I will often try to identify images from online, and it is consistently unable to find stuff.

Thus, I am thinking there must be a reason for the sudden drop in performance of Lens.

0 Comments
2024/11/03
02:26 UTC

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Any way to force light theme on certain websites?

Hello, i'm trying to find any way to force light theme on websites, a extension or something?

Some websites doesn't let me change the settings and is unbearable for me to read :(

1 Comment
2024/11/03
02:15 UTC

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All passwords and logins gone after Windows Update

All my passwords and logins saved to chrome are gone, there are no previous versions saved to restore too. Am I screwed?

1 Comment
2024/11/03
01:09 UTC

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Limit the speed at which Chrome downloads files?

Hello, i have a question regarding limiting the speed of file downloads. I need to download a few files, which are around 30-40GB each, sadly not through a torrent link, but through the browser. Problem is, Chrome will max out the speed of the download. Usually that's fine, since it makes downloading files faster, but maxing out the speed for these downloads isn't good, because it limits the usage of the whole PC in terms of internet speeds.

I tried the Dev tools limiter, but it didn't work at all, speed kept the same regardless of setting. Is there anything else that i can do to limit the download speeds of files?

13 Comments
2024/11/02
20:57 UTC

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uBlock Origin still working

The title. I also haven't enabled the enterprise registry policy which extends the deadline to June 2025. Can anyone explain why?

1 Comment
2024/11/02
20:17 UTC

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Clicking my current college login takes me to my old college login

Hey everyone,

So I have a minor issue that has been happening on chrome lately. I used to go to community college, and so have everything for that site cached and cookies saved.

Trouble is trying to log into blackboard for my 4 year school. Instead of taking me to the school-based microsoft login where I put in my school microsoft 365 login info, it re directs me back to my old community college login screen. How to I fix this? My current workaround has just been using edge browser instead.

TL;DR click blackboard on 4 year school>should take me to school microsoft 365 login

instead> takes me to community college login page for my old school

3 Comments
2024/11/02
19:25 UTC

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"Control your music, videos, and more" feature making my media visible to other chrome users on my network

I can see other people's media with it, so I assume they can see mine, which I'm looking to stop. I've found some info on how to disable the feature in my browser through chrome://flags, but am wondering if that would also prevent other people from seeing my media in their browsers. Sorry if this is an obvious fix or has been answered before, but I couldn't find an answer after some digging. Seems like other people have asked without followup:

https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/ov6b7x/control_your_music_videos_and_more_button/

https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/lr673d/does_anyone_know_if_other_people_can_see_your/

1 Comment
2024/11/02
18:30 UTC

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Help please, lost all tabs on android but i have sync everything turned on

Is there a way to restore the tabs in chrome on my android phone from old sync data? how do i access it as it is showing synced a moment ago with only 5 tabs.

Lost all but 1 tab after I updated chrome.

1 Comment
2024/11/02
17:50 UTC

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How do I get rid of this?

10 Comments
2024/11/02
16:50 UTC

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Redirect Extention for Chrome ?

Is there a chrome extention that helps me redirect from one page to another, because I want the YouTube Homepage to utomsticly redirect to Watch Later

Greetings

Paul

0 Comments
2024/11/02
14:27 UTC

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Bluetooth Sound Delay on Youtube

Hey, I've noticed that since a few weeks ago there's a small but noticeable sound delay when I watch Youtube videos with my Bluetooth headphones on my Mac. I'm aware of the inherent sound delay that comes with Bluetooth technology but I'm pretty sure Chrome used to compensate for this delay on Youtube (and probably other sites) because I never noticed it before. It seems some recent update disabled this feature.

This sound delay issue doesn't occur on Firefox, which probably has its own compensation mechanism. It does happen on Brave too so I assume it's coming from the Chromium engine.

I'm using Sony WH-1000XM4 headphones on an M2 Macbook Pro with macOS Sonoma. Does anyone else have the same issue? Do you know if there's a hidden setting somewhere to turn back on this sound delay compensation feature?

Thanks

1 Comment
2024/11/02
13:47 UTC

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After a software update, Chrome suddenly changed my keyboard for the address bar

I have no idea how to change these back. I updated both my macOS and clearly Chrome was updated with it

I used to be able to type in something in address bar, get search suggestions, and then use the up/down arrow keys to select a prompt. I also used to be able to use the left/right arrow keys like how you normally would when typing, and go back to previous letters

When I press any arrow keys now, it will automatically deselect the address bar and, for example, select the first element on the new tab page. Anyone else experiencing this? Wtf?

2 Comments
2024/11/02
13:32 UTC

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