I've been playing around with Amazon Luna and it works fine as a regular separate window/tab etc - but when I installed the Chrome App version, it appears to be in a loading loop, and just that app flickers throughout, never loading the final screen.

I've tried all the screen setting options mentioned here: https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/crxt2o/screen_flickering_on_chrome_mac/ (diff resolution, auto-brightness disabled, disable promotion etc) and disabled hardware accelleration (although that would probably neg affect Luna streaming performance!) nothing works.

This is the only chrome app that has this issue, but again, doesn't happen when loading the website through the browser.

Does anyone know if there's a specific setting that could target this issue? TIK 😃

Hello

would someone kindly tell me why that flag was removed and why the option to decide if chromium based browsers should be using the media keys of keyboards is not there in the first place?

Now I can not use Brave anymore like I am used to because now instead of pausing Spotify it is pausing Youtube videos... Really cumbersome and not userfriendly at all!

Is there something one can change on the Win10 OS side to prevent the browser from having access to the keyboards media keys so we are not on El Googs mercy?

Mayhaps some registry entries?

Could someone code an extension to disable the use of the keyboards media keys? Or is that not possible since that flag got removed?

Like they want users to switch from Chromium based browsers xD

Looking forward to your thoughts, many thx in advance! ( :

Is it really not possible for users to change the title? XDDD

It's becoming a bit annoying to regularly grant permissions to Bypass Paywalls Chrome Clean every time it updates.

I understand that it may be risky, but is there a way to grant permissions automatically?

Is there an official version that has the "✱://✱/✱" permission, allowing it to work on any site?

Solution:

chrome://flags/

Now the folders are sparkling yellow again 😀

https://preview.redd.it/8j2szr4ixkqc1.jpg?width=1342&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8e81f092a582dec25ec13eacef91ee9336b13fdf

Great.... You've been trying to f*cking get out of my preference choice as UI and layout, refresh 2023, and download bubble that all are now gone. This is time to uninstall my Chrome browser and will switch to another browser tomorrow.

Farewell chrometrash browser: 2009-2024

I hate how spaced out and enlarged everything is now , plus it runs slower. is there a way to switch back to the old design?

This is so random but when I use caps lock (noticed on quizlet and gmail) in chrome my typing lags for like 30 seconds. it’s extremely difficult to get work done and i’m wondering if anyone else has this issue? my chrome is up to date and I have a mac that I have restarted and everything. maybe I should delete chrome and redownload? I just don’t want to loose my bookmarks. google told me to clear my cache which i’ve done but I shouldn’t have to clear it every day to use chrome?

If anyone has any insight or troubleshooting ideas I would greatly appreciate it!

Would it be possible to build a Chrome Extension that did "something" to the HTML property of a form field that allowed you to always paste values into it? I'm relatively new to HTML, but one thing that always annoyed me on websites was forms that prevented you from pasting values into a field.

One tiny, harmless, example is the American Airlines flight status page. Why in the world can't I paste in a flight number? Why must we manually type in the flight number? What could I do to the HTML form to allow it to accept pasted values?

I have a ton of tabs open for a million things I intend to read, beware this may hurt your eyes.

But this is my current Chrome appearance: https://i.imgur.com/tINanf6.png

And this is the new one: https://i.imgur.com/yIrPbx7.png

The new one is kind of painful to look at, so many shades of white. But there's also no division between elements? I find that way more difficult to mentally navigate at a glance, especially with many similar favicons where I'm looking for tabs not pictures, often navigating by offset from a known tab.

It also takes up more vertical space. Like what's the point of the huge empty space around the url box? Maybe it was made by people who primarily use phones and tablets these days, but on PC the vertical space is the most limited real estate on a screen, so why is Chrome going the wrong way when its whole original appeal was a sleek browser which cut out all the bloat and got out of your way? Now it feels like it's trying to flaunt its appearance with bright attention grabbing designs, but I don't want to look at my browser, I want to look at the webpage I'm using the browser to get to. The browser should be as invisible as possible.

Ironically the space for the buttons was made larger, but the buttons were made smaller, making them look very much at odds with each other.

I also semi-frequently use the share to device button to send pages to my android phone, which was removed in the new one. Maybe there's a better method, but at the moment it's the only way I know of, and it just disappeared.

You can revert by going to chrome://flags/ and disabling 'Customize Chrome Side Panel' - thanks to /u/TiraMizzy for that tip.

Up until version 123, I was able to "Temporarily unexpire [M120/M121] flags" and then disable #enable-system-notifications, so that Google Chat would show notifications in the old white-style box instead of the native windows box (which I easily confuse with my Outlook notifications).

Now that I can't unexpire M120 flags anymore (in Chrome 123), and the #enable-system-notifications flag is gone, I assume I'm hosed?

Hi, wondering if anyone has encountered this particular browser hijack. I think I resolved the issue, but trying to better understand what happened.

Someone was asking why they didn't see their shortcuts anymore on the Chrome new tab page of their Windows machine. When I got a look at their computer, I could see that the new tab page wasn't showing the normal Google search box and was showing some other search box with some shortcuts underneath to stores/brands like Fanatics, Macy's, etc... (that the person never visited before).

I checked their Chrome browser extensions and didn't see anything out of the ordinary. But in their Chrome settings for the search engine, something that had "Lookingup" or "Lookup" (I forgot what it was exactly) was being used instead of Google. And in their browser search history, they had some urls that started with https://lookingup-lookup.com/search... When going to such urls, it eventually went to Google's site to show search results.

Then I looked in their Window settings > Apps, and saw something called "Search Synergy 1.7". I uninstalled it and afterwards their Chrome new tab page was working as normal with the person's usual shortcuts. I confirmed in the Chrome search engine settings that Google was being used and the "Lookingup" (or "Lookup") search engine was no longer listed as an option.

Does anyone have more information about this "Search Synergy 1.7" application and how it could have gotten installed? I also tried to look more into this lookingup-lookup.com domain. When trying to go just to the domain address https://lookingup-lookup.com, it redirects to https://home.lookingup-lookup.com/, but nothing is shown as the Chrome says "This site can’t be reached home.lookingup-lookup.com took too long to respond" due to ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT. I can't find anything about "Search Synergy" or lookingup-lookup.com when I search Google on these.

I also did a whois lookup on the lookingup-lookup.com domain and could see that it was recently registered on 2024-02-14 and that the contact info lists a Reykjavik, Iceland address. The organization name is shown as "Redacted for Privacy".

The computer owner has no idea how the "Search Synergy 1.7" application got installed. What is the purpose of these kind of browser hijacks that change the search engine being used? It seems like a search request first goes to their domain and then they redirect to Google to show the search results, but not clear how they make money (or get some other benefit) from this.

Hi, I usually use my media keys to control spotify and previously thats been no issue on chrome as there was a flag to disable media keys controlling chrome. This seems to have changed recently and I can no longer find the flag. Is there any new information here?

Is there anyway to add frequently visited site to the highlighted spot? We are able to remove but I can’t figure out how to add them.

anyone know what might cause my bank account cookies to go missing?

i never clear cookies, nor do i have any extension that does so.

When using Google I perform a search.

At the top are the sponsored Google Ads.

When I click on one of these suggestions / ads, I get the attached error message.

This is driving me insane, it only happens when I move the cursor over the video. Anyone know a fix?

My old "flags disabled" method of getting the old bookmark spacing has failed as of today. Does anyone know a current version getting back the tighter spacing? (Windows)

I swear im the only one with this problem as none of my friends get this issue, sometimes when i go into chrome my search engine would be yahoo or secure search and i would make chrome the default and even delete the other ones but it doesnt work. Can anyone help?

I swear im the only one with this problem as none of my friends get this issue, sometimes when i go into chrome my search engine would be yahoo or secure search and i would make chrome the default and even delete the other ones but it doesnt work. Can anyone help?

Im trying to watch sopranos on a streaming site and noticed it wont go fullscreen, so i tried a different site , and another one and another one and nothing. full screen just wont work. I tried on youtube and it worked on there but no other site. Can someone help?

Hello, I'm an IT admin and one of my users is having a very strange problem I haven't been able to solve. Their google chrome has spontaneously started displaying in Danish (according to google lens at least). The chrome language settings are already in English, the computer's language and region are nothing but English and US, and no amount of resetting or reinstalling chrome or messing with it's language settings have gotten it off of Danish. I've followed guides for setting the language back to English but it just doesn't actually change for some reason (and yes I checked the little checkbox for make this the main display language or something like that). How do I fix this?

how do I stop pop-up downloads? whenever I go on some sights ill get an automatic download after clicking on the page, how can I disable that? also this ( chrome://flags > Enable download bubble > Disabled ) is not working in 2024 but any help will be appreciated

I am on a domain joined computer and we have a chrome GPO but that only applies a home page.
I can modify it if necessary.

On my laptop I have enabled the "Protect passwords with Windows Hello" but it only asks for my password and touching the fingerprint reader does nothing. I have my fingerprint enabled and it works to log me into windows.

Is there a setting I can change anywhere on my pc or in our GPO to allow me to use my fingerprint from windows Hello?

Lately i noticed that if i click on bookmarks in bookmark folders it will immediately freeze the process. I have the same chrome synced on my pc and my m1 macbook and the results are the same on both. I quit application on my mac and end task on windows and restart to remedy the situation or wait 30-45 secs before it loads site. I turned off hardware acceleration and still have same result. This just started happening within the last week. Anyone with same issue? I cleared cache already and same results

I managed to have hw-assisted acceleration on Chrome/125 for video (i.e. youtube).
But I still cannot get it with WebRTC (meet/slack/zoom/teams).
I see from chrome://flags that both "WebRTC hardware video decoding" (chrome://flags/#webrtc-hw-decoding) and "WebRTC hardware video encoding" (chrome://flags/#webrtc-hw-encoding) are "Unavailable".

Does anyone here know whether this is due to something I am missing in my Linux PC or to Linux altogether?

My systems is:

Distro: ArchLinux
Kernel Version : 6.8.1.zen1-1
Plasma Version : 6.0.2-3
KDE Version : 24.02.1-1
Frameworks Version : 5.115.0-1
Qt5 Version : 5.15.13+kde+r7-1
Qt6 Version : 6.6.2-4
Wayland Version : 1.22.0-1
XOrg/Wayland Version : 23.2.4-2
Mesa Version : 1:24.0.3-2
LibVA Version : 2.21.0-1
VDPAU Version : 1.5-2
GPU: TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics]

I cannot read this website on Chrome (or Safari). I cleared cache and cookies and updated Chrome. Any suggestions?