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Can Google chrome see my photos on my phone? I don't use Google Photos. But have gotten ads based on my photos.

This has happened a few times before, and just happened again today. This time, I got an ad for a bunch of baby dolls, all looking pretty similar, all girl dolls. I've never searched for anything like that (no kids, not looking at toys or dolls, nothing of that nature) but did take a couple pictures (using X gallery app) of a co-worker's baby girl and texted it to someone using a texting app called Next SMS. Seems weird that I got what seemed to be one of those targeted-looking ads now, with all the baby dolls. Anyone else have this happen?

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2024/12/04
02:48 UTC

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Active Tab Highlight or Glow

I use a black color scheme for Chrome since I work many hours on the PC, and it helps prevent my eyes from getting too tired. However, from the angle I view my monitor, distinguishing which tab is open is nearly impossible. This becomes a major problem when I have more than 50 tabs open at work. I need an extension or something that clearly highlights the currently open tab. Any recomendations?

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2024/12/04
02:19 UTC

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When I make a group and try to drag it to rearrenge it in the tab bar, it drags showing all the tabs in it. I want to just drag the icon which is much more practical, is there any way to do that?

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2024/12/04
01:47 UTC

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Performance Issue Alerts setting on other PC but not this one?

Both PCs have latest version of Chrome but one has Performance Issue Alerts under the "performance setting" and the other one doesn't, how to enable this setting on the other PC?

1 Comment
2024/12/04
01:35 UTC

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Weird fonts on every single page I open in Chrome?

Not sure if this is an issue with Chrome or my mac, although I haven't had this issue with Safari so I'm assuming it's chrome. The font suddenly changed on every page I open a few weeks ago and didn't change back to normal. Not sure what do do because my font settings in the app are normal? (see attached images) Please help!

https://preview.redd.it/179tavj2aq4e1.png?width=1191&format=png&auto=webp&s=cc9c5c9fc8a383dfbb95e6be96d0a32c97ff5740

https://preview.redd.it/a5vssk63aq4e1.png?width=1201&format=png&auto=webp&s=5fed8bcb21a9d4873876f63cfbb3d3ad426737ce

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2024/12/04
00:42 UTC

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Asus Chromebook Crashing

Hey all, basically in a bit of a pickle, my Chromebook keeps crashing and just instantly restarting, I've updated all software, play store and games and apps and it's just absolutely not having any of it, it had got a tiny bit better and now it's just going on one again, any ideas?

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2024/12/04
00:22 UTC

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xq el navegador se buguea cuando saco el limite de fps?

Hola, bueno tuve problemas al momento de sacar el limite de fps en cualquier navegador, no se por que cuando lo sacas se bugea el navegador y los fps suben tanto (alcanza hasta 2000 oh 8000 fps) que se congela y se queda ahí.

1 Comment
2024/12/03
23:21 UTC

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Google search freezes a couple seconds every time I search something

Every time I search something on Google the page freezes for like 2 or 3 seconds. Every other page works well without any freezing. Anyone knows any solution?

1 Comment
2024/12/03
22:25 UTC

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Chrome on Mac closing when I hit enter to upload a file from desktop

As title says. Chrome fully shuts down when I click enter/open to upload a file from desktop. Is there a fix?

1 Comment
2024/12/03
21:51 UTC

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My passwords are gone but they still do autofill

I wanted to check my password to write it, and i only found one unkown saved gmail ( it's a very old gmail of mine) and every password is gone but when i go to gmail and press add new accounts it still autofills the info

3 Comments
2024/12/03
21:29 UTC

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Tab isn't auto-filling/jumping to the search feature

I am no longer able to use the Tab button to jump to searching a site when typing it in the address bar. It just keeps skipping down to the next saved site. Is this happening to anyone else? Anyone have a fix?

1 Comment
2024/12/03
21:12 UTC

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Tabs & Crashes - Memory Requirements

Hey,

So I am building a new computer, I want to make sure that I have enough memory. Lately I've been experiencing crashes, probably due to running out of memory, I got around 1000 tabs (yes , I know) - I got (I think 32gb of ram) - how much ram would you recommend for this?

1 Comment
2024/12/03
19:31 UTC

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Tabs Index is no longer traversable using up/down arrows

The Tabs Index - reachable by Shift-CMD-A on macOS - is not responding to either up or down arrow anymore. I have to do the clunky thing of dragging the mouse over to the list and click. In addition I can't just start typing search terms: I have to click in the "Search" field first.

These were working until a couple of weeks ago. Did some update to chrome break it?

1 Comment
2024/12/03
17:08 UTC

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"highlight this" is a great extension that highlights the words from a list that it finds. is there an extension like that but also can give a customized tooltip next to the word ?

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2024/12/03
16:14 UTC

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Has CORS blocking made Chrome essentially useless at work for anyone else?

I honestly have no idea what happened in terms of my company's cybersecurity changes, however, within the last month, I stopped being able to use almost every website with interactive or media content. That includes, YouTube, X, Discord, my banking website among many others. Interestingly, Reddit and Instagram still work for some reason.

In the F12 menu, I always see multiple instances of:

A cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) request was blocked because it was configured to include credentials and the Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header of the request or the associated preflight request was set to a wildcard *. CORS requests may only include credentials for resources where the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header is not a wildcard.

The wild thing is that all of these sites work fine in Edge! What the hell is happening with Chrome? I've read about multiple workarounds for this, including turning off security features and installing suspicious add-ons, but I've got to figure that there's a better solution to this.

Any thoughts?

2 Comments
2024/12/03
15:24 UTC

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How do I disable dark mode on Chrome without having light mode on Windows 10?

It seems I can't default Chrome's theme to light mode if Windows theme setting (default app mode) is on Dark. I tried to go on chrome://flags and disable Auto Dark Mode for Web Contents but some website persist being in dark mode.

Is there no other way?

2 Comments
2024/12/03
14:39 UTC

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Chrome consumes so much internet

Chrome uses ~ 200 MB of internet in under one hour when I'm googling stuff and opening random websites (not youtube of course). I can't afford that because I'm working on a limited internet plan. Is there any solution ?

12 Comments
2024/12/03
14:38 UTC

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What is the lightest and least CPU-intensive dark mode extension for Chrome?

Dark Reader works well but it slows down my browser a lot, especially when switching between tabs. Are there any other alternatives that don't have as big of a performance impact?

0 Comments
2024/12/03
14:15 UTC

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What is this different symbol/logo?

I've never seen this before. What is this?

1 Comment
2024/12/03
14:07 UTC

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Browsers lagging after clean windows 11 install

So I just build my first pc this weekend and everything is working perfectly, except that all browsers I've tried(chrome, opera, edge and firefox) are lagging like crazy especially when streaming. At max I can stream at 780p without having problems, but as soon as I go above that it just doesn't play anymore. I've tried every solution I can find, so I'm getting very pretty desperate now. I've speedtested and it's fine(900 up and down). Online games work perfectly fine, so does discord and other programs that use internet. Thanks in advance for any advice🙏

edit: I solved the issue by going to realtek own website and downloading the newest pcie network adapter, thanks for any suggestions

5 Comments
2024/12/03
12:24 UTC

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How do I tell Chrome to stop trying to use Adobe to open PDFs?

My Adobe subscription has expired, but whenever I open the link to a PDF in Chrome I just get the login page for Adobe and a message to say that I need to pay to renew my subscription. This is frustrating because it doesn't ask if I want to use anything else to open the PDF, and I often can't simply copy and paste the link into a different browser because often it will require a password and I'm not logged in with a different browser.

3 Comments
2024/12/03
11:28 UTC

1

Copying text from incogtino mode.

Is there any way to copy text from chrome's (android) incognito mode and use it in other applications?

2 Comments
2024/12/03
11:00 UTC

1

help needed with website restart

I hacked a website game and i got blocked from it i cant play it or anything is there a way to fully reset my data on it and start over please help.

1 Comment
2024/12/03
10:15 UTC

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Why does Chrome want me to download Chrome when there is no update

There was some kind of Chrome AI explainer link on Chrome's main page this morning and I went down that rabbit hole, wherein Chrome offered at link to download Chrome.

What's that all about? There are none of the usual indicators of an upgrade being available.

(I am just asking a question but "Discussion" is the best flair I can find.)

3 Comments
2024/12/03
09:42 UTC

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Tabs freeze after a while

Sometimes active tab freeze after ~10 minutes. When moving to other tab and back, page unfreezes. I have 16GB of RAM, i5-1235U, Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EUs, Windows 11 Pro. Any suggestions?
P.S. Sorry for my English, I'm Ukrainian and I don't use translators

1 Comment
2024/12/03
09:24 UTC

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New feature pop-up on main page

Did anyone else notice a pop-up beneath the 9-pin/app launcher in the upper-right corner on the "New Tab" home page when first opening Chrome today? If so, did anyone catch what it said? I had already clicked on a bookmark by the time I had noticed it, and was just wondering what it was notifying us about. Assuming it was a new feature of some sort.

Thanks!

0 Comments
2024/12/03
07:27 UTC

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How to always open links in main window

Hi there,

I typically use two Chrome windows: my main window on my desktop and a side window on my notebook screen, where applications like Microsoft Teams or my email client are open. When I click on a link in Teams or in an email, it always opens in a new tab within my side window. However, I would prefer the new tabs to always open in my main window instead.

Is there a way to achieve this?

2 Comments
2024/12/03
07:17 UTC

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Chrome profile information recovery

Hello everyone!

In my Chrome browser, I have a user profile linked to an email. Previously, the profile saved passwords, but because its synchronization ceased, I cannot access the passwords or information saved in the profile.

Is there any way to retrieve all this information?

1 Comment
2024/12/03
06:40 UTC

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How does the recovery period for a deleted Google account last?

Hii, I wanted ask how long does the recovery period for a deleted Google account lasts until it gets permanently deleted?

4 Comments
2024/12/03
05:18 UTC

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