Im not sure why but the issues started no matter what you search it will open on a new tab. even incognito searches open in a regular tab. samsung phone

Howdy,

Just trying to look up some (not even very) old searches from October '25. When I type relevant keywords into the search bar of my Chrome history tab, I get zero results. However, if I'm patient enough to hold Page Down for a couple of minutes, I will find myself in October '25 with all of my search history full of the keywords I was searching for. From there, I can physically have my eyes on a specific word, type it into the "Search History" bar above it, and immediately yield no results.

What's going on here? Why is the information being saved and stored and yet rendered inaccessible?

Thanks in advance for any tips.

Seems to happen most often when I'm watching videos but happens pretty frequently regardless of what I'm doing. Turning off 'Use graphics acceleration when available' fixes it but makes the whole browser run a lot worse so I'd rather find a better fix if one exists. Only started a few days ago.

For me, Dark Reader still works the best to turn websites to dark mode. Because it's resource heavy, I started using the flag "Auto Dark Mode for Web Contents". It works okay for the most part, but fails in places where Dark Reader works fine. The other issue with the flag is that one can't easily toggle it on or off--it requires a browser restart.

I've also tried Night Eye, but it's not much better than the flag.

Question--if the flag is enabled and Dark Reader is enabled, how do they interact with one another. Is it complementary or conflicting? Ideally, Dark Reader could allow Chrome to render dark and step in when needed. This could reduce DR's overhead. I know I can toggle DR, but just wondering if DR requires the flag to be disabled.

I did do some testing and the result was inconsistent. I am posing this question to those who understands what is going on under the hood. Thanks.

Hey all, my Chrome window is stuck in some kind of fullscreen mode on Mac. The menu bar, tabs, and bookmarks bar are all hidden — they only show up briefly when I hover my mouse near the top of the screen, then disappear again as soon as I move down.

I've tried:

• Pressing Esc
• Control + Command + F
• Clicking the green button at the top-left
• Checking Mission Control for a separate fullscreen space
• Quitting and reopening Chrome

Nothing's fixing it so far. Anyone run into this before or know another way to force Chrome out of fullscreen? Thanks!

so im trying to type out ø, which uses the key code alt 2 4 8 on my pc. However, for some reason, alt 4 is keybind to going back a page. So now, I cant even type a singular letter o. How do I disable this because I am unreasonably angered.

Le problème

Sur Twitch, l'option 1440p60 2K (Source) était grisée sous Linux, alors qu'elle fonctionnait sous Windows sur le même PC.

Twitch utilise le codec HEVC/H.265 pour le 1440p. Chrome ignore par défaut le décodage VA-API des cartes NVIDIA sous Linux.

Configuration testée

• Kubuntu 26.04.1 sous Wayland
• Google Chrome 152
• NVIDIA RTX 3080
• Pilote NVIDIA 595.84

Cette procédure concerne NVIDIA. Les paramètres peuvent être différents avec AMD ou Intel.

1. Installer le pilote VA-API NVIDIA

bash sudo apt update sudo apt install nvidia-vaapi-driver vainfo

Si le paquet est introuvable :

bash sudo add-apt-repository universe sudo apt update sudo apt install nvidia-vaapi-driver vainfo

Vérifier aussi que l'accélération graphique est activée dans :

Chrome > Paramètres > Système > Utiliser l'accélération graphique si disponible

2. Tester avant de rendre la modification permanente

Fermer complètement Chrome, y compris les applications Chrome en arrière-plan, puis lancer :

bash LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nvidia NVD_BACKEND=direct google-chrome-stable \ --ozone-platform=wayland \ --use-gl=angle \ --use-angle=gl \ --enable-features=AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxGL,VaapiOnNvidiaGPUs \ --ignore-gpu-blocklist

Se connecter à Twitch et ouvrir un stream qui propose réellement la qualité 2K.

Dans chrome://gpu, la section Video Acceleration Information doit notamment contenir :

text Video Decode: Hardware accelerated Decode hevc main Decode hevc main 10

L'option 1440p60 2K (Source) doit maintenant être sélectionnable sur Twitch.

3. Rendre le lancement permanent dans KDE

Créer une copie utilisateur du lanceur Chrome :

```bash mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications

cp /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop \ ~/.local/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop

sed -i 's|<sup>Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable|Exec=/usr/bin/env</sup> LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nvidia NVD_BACKEND=direct /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --ozone-platform=wayland --use-gl=angle --use-angle=gl --enable-features=AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxGL,VaapiOnNvidiaGPUs --ignore-gpu-blocklist|' \ ~/.local/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop

kbuildsycoca6 ```

Cela adapte le lancement normal, la nouvelle fenêtre et la navigation privée.

Fermer complètement Chrome, puis le relancer depuis le menu KDE. Si une ancienne icône épinglée utilise encore l'ancienne commande, la retirer puis épingler de nouveau Chrome depuis le menu.

4. Validation finale

Dans chrome://gpu, vérifier que :

• Command Line contient AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxGL,VaapiOnNvidiaGPUs ;
• Decode hevc main et Decode hevc main 10 sont toujours présents ;
• le journal ne contient plus Should skip nVidia device named: nvidia-drm.

Messages observés sans impact sur cette configuration

Les messages suivants peuvent apparaître alors que le 1440p fonctionne :

text Wayland is not compatible with Vulkan Video Encode: Software only GCM DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT

Cette configuration utilise OpenGL/ANGLE et le rapport fonctionnel indique Vulkan: Disabled. Video Encode ne concerne pas le décodage d'un stream regardé.

Annuler la modification

```bash mv ~/.local/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop \ ~/.local/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop.vaapi-disabled

kbuildsycoca6 ```

Le lanceur système d'origine sera de nouveau utilisé.

Avertissement

La prise en charge VA-API de NVIDIA dans Chromium reste expérimentale. En cas d'artefacts, de plantages ou de consommation anormale, revenir au lanceur système.

Sources

• Documentation Twitch sur le streaming 2K
• Pilote NVIDIA VA-API utilisant NVDEC
• Documentation Chromium VA-API

Heya!

First of all, the solution for the problem is related to the ds4 controller, or in my case a cheaper but better knockoff from a local store that acts as a ds4 controller. So whenever your controller is listed as a ds4/ds5 controller and you have the below problem, try the solution at the end. Might as well work for xbox controllers or others..

This very morning when i booted my pc after the night and after opening chrome, i got a new tab saying that a new udate was installed.

I did hold my breath, cause as of late, a lot of updates did gave me some problems.. Some for translating, soms for gemini not responding as i wanted, some for dns problems, and some for something else so to say. All were solvable though, but were annoying and made me believe that google devs were trying to re-invent the wheel with every update.

So now, at first nothing was wrong, but then i wanted continue plyaing final fantasy rebirth, of which i use steam input to make the mini games easier. So, as normal, i booted up steam, booted my trainer, booted the interactive map and the walktrough for the tifa route and i was ready to go.

But then something in my mind came up which i wanted to ask gemini, And there we go.. Gemini started slowly scrolling up, which drove me nearly crazy.
At first i thought my mouse was broken, but ofcourse that shouldnt be the problem..
I booted up my own written book in notepad, and the scrolling stopped. I gone back to chrome, on another page, scrolling was back.

I tried goging to flags, and disable everything gamepad related there, and it didnt work. So i asked gemini again with the controller disabled in bluetooth, and it gave me a couple of solutions:

- adding a flag next to chromes exe: chrome.exe" --disable-gamepad
- trying some stuff with device manager
- trying some stuff with windows settings
- other stuff that didnt work

So, again nothing worked..

I then half scolded gemini by text saying nothing worked, and then it came up with the solution:

The program HidHide

I remember this little thing in a different form back when i still used ds4windows or inputmapper, so i installed it, rebooted the pc and tought it was gone, it wasnt however.

So i gone back to gemini, said it was still there, and it said that i had hidhide configured wrong.

So, if you gonna install hidhide, make sure that at the applications tab, only the default entry is there.
Next up enable your controller like normal in windows, and then go to the devices tab.
You will see now that your controller pops there.
Tick the checkmark there, and you see that a red logo like thingy shows. this is good.
Next up, at the bottom, tick enable device hiding.
Then you can close the program, and you gotta go to task manager and close everything related to chrome there.
Then relaunch chrome again, and the scrolling is gone, or it was at least for me.

pro tip: you might wanna at the applications tab, add steam or whatever game launcher you have there, or even the game that you wanna play, to make sure its whitelisted of the blacklisting of the device page.
In this case hidhide does know that it shouldnt hide your controller for example when you wanna use steam input like i want.

Hope this had helped for you, like it did for me.
Lemme know if it did or not!

Cheers, Mara

The new mobile app is horrible. Who designed this? It makes me consistently feel like I'm not in a browser session. The weird back button at the top left making it just feel like a weird and awkward experience. I feel like every tab is its own browser session.. it just feels clunky and unusable now. Rant over. Fuck you Google change it back

So I don't know who designed it but today Omnibox, the Chrome search bar give you "useful" suggestions about your past website searches of all time, mixing privacy, work, life and anything else.

Who designed it should be removed from his position, with over 100 settings options they do not permit users to remove this Omnibox suggestions feature, damaging the life of all the users and killing their privacy. Removing cookies and history doesn't stop this "smart" unrequested Ai feature, so I am removing Google from chrome.

Also another question that's unrelated to this, but my old laptop's tabs keep crashing if I leave them alone for a few minutes, and stay crashed until I open up a window from another user. Why does that happen?

I've been having a really weird issue with Chrome lately. A new tab (from let's say a Google search) will sometimes just keep loading indefinitely and never actually finish loading the page.

The strange part is that if I open the exact same URL in a second tab, the second tab loads normally, and then the first tab loads for long time instead.

It seems to happen somewhat randomly, and refreshing the original tab doesn't always fix it. Has anyone experienced something similar or know what could be causing this?

I'm on the latest stable version of Chrome on Mac

Hi, Recently my chrome tabs have been refreshing automatically and I do not know how to fix it. I haven't had such problem before. my memory saver is off and I have a lot of free memory space. I tried to disable background sync of each site but nothing happened...
How should I fix it?
It's very annoying.

I'm migrating my stuff over to a new Windows 11 computer. I've created some desktop icons for favorite websites that launch in my Chrome browser. The icons are of the specific website logo but have the Chrome pinwheel circle image on the lower right side. Is there a way to get rid of that and have a clean website logo? On my old Windows 10 desktop the shortcut icons do not have the pinwheel so I'm hoping it's just a settings adjustment.

EDIT: I found this in a search. This is just what I want to do....

Remove Chrome Badge from Desktop Shortcuts

To remove the small Google Chrome overlay badge or logo from your desktop shortcut icons, you need to change a setting in your browser.

Open Google Chrome.

Click the three vertical dots in the top-right corner.

Select Settings.

Click on Appearance in the left sidebar.

Look for Behavior.

Uncheck the box next to Open links in Chrome when clicked from other applications.

Close and restart Chrome.

(Note: This stops Chrome from stamping its tiny logo badge onto newly created system shortcuts.)**

Great! But I can't find "Behavior" or that box to uncheck!!

It seems the "Behavior" section has been removed in a recent update

on iOS, if I open a website in a new tab or from an url external to chrome. it opens with a small scroll to the bottom, very annoying on full page website. do you have the same issue?
example on google.com

try it by killing the app et restart it for force newtab opening

when i try to open youtube on chrome specifically it gives this erroe message: This site can’t be reached

www.youtube.com took too long to respond.

Try:

• Checking the connection
• [Checking the proxy and the firewall](chrome-error://chromewebdata/#buttons)
• [Running Windows Network Diagnostics](javascript:diagnoseErrors())

ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT

before anyone asks i have:

cleared browsing history and cache, used a different network, flushed DNS and changed from cloudflare to google, reinstalled the app, checkled my hosts file in windows 32.

it works on my phone and other devices, and ive never had this problem before. it also works on edge but not google for whatever reason. thanks

Hi everyone. Since my next phone will be a Google Pixel, I’m planning to move more fully into the Google ecosystem, including the browser. I’ve been using Google Chrome for years and have always been happy with it, but over the past year I switched to Brave mainly because of its built-in ad blocking and because it makes using YouTube and YouTube Music ad-free and in the background so easy. Now I’m trying to switch back to Chrome. On PC, there’s not much of a difference compared to Brave thanks to extensions, but on mobile it’s a different story. As far as I can tell there’s no real way to effectively block ads on YouTube services. At least I managed to figure out how to get background playback working, although it’s a bit clunky since you have to switch to desktop mode. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Posting this because I spent days stuck in a loop and every guide said the same useless thing ("just wait 24 hours"). What actually worked was something nobody mentioned.

My situation

• Google account got disabled. Filed an appeal, and the appeal was approved - got the email saying access was restored.
• But I still couldn't sign in. Every attempt: "We couldn't verify your phone number... Too many failed attempts. Unavailable because of too many failed attempts."
• No recovery email on the account. "Try another way" led nowhere.
• Bonus stress: I had a paid subscription to a service that only supported Google Sign-In, so losing the Google account meant losing that too.

What actually fixed it

My brother originally created this account for me because I was struggling to set it up myself. He turned on location services on his device and signed in from there -and it went straight through.

That's it. No waiting period, no appeal escalation, no support ticket.

Why I think it worked

Google's risk engine doesn't just check whether you know the password. It weighs device, IP, location, and browser against the account's history. Since my brother created the account, his device and location were the trusted fingerprint. Mine never was. Every attempt from my own phone looked like an attacker to their system, which is exactly why it kept failing and kept extending the lockout.

So if someone else set up your account, or you used to sign in from a different phone, laptop, or house -go there and try from that device with location services on. Especially the original device.

Other things I learned the hard way

Every retry restarts the timer. The lockout is not a countdown that runs down no matter what. Each new attempt resets it. I was retrying daily for 3 days and effectively kept the hold alive myself. If you're stuck, stop completely - no sign-ins, no code requests, nothing for 72 hours.

Check for a session that's still alive. Old Android phone, tablet in a drawer, Chrome on a laptop, YouTube, Google Photos, a smart TV. An existing logged-in session often survives a verification block. If you find one, don't sign out now go straight to Security settings.

An approved appeal ≠ being able to sign in. These are two separate systems. The appeal just means they're not deleting the account. You still have to pass authentication normally.

What I did the second I got back in

1. Signed in on my own device while the working session was open, so my device became trusted too. Do this first.
2. Added a recovery email. Not having one was the entire reason recovery was impossible.
3. Added my own phone as a recovery number.
4. Turned on 2FA and saved the backup codes offline.
5. Added a passkey.
6. Reviewed "Your devices" and signed out anything unfamiliar.

I recently made a new gmail account and a new chrome profile. My old account shows the AI overview results just fine, but this new one doesn't.

This is driving me crazy. I did everything imaginable. Web & Activity is on, safesearch is off, deleted cookies and cache multiple times, AI mode/Overview is turned on in Search Labs, age is verified, location is set to US, search queries are fine (AI Overview does show up in Incognito and in my other account so the query is not the problem), no chrome extensions, etc etc. It's not working on my desktop nor my phone, iPad, or macbook.

But then it works fine in my other account. How do I fix this? It's driving me insane

There's a new button below your recent searches that is a plus sign, titled "Enhance your search (...)"
Were anyone able to remove this button? Couldn't find the solution anywhere!

Hi! This is my first post!

The "Enter" key stopped working for me in Gmail. The one next to the ' doesn't work, but the one on the number pad does work. The first one sends the email instead of going to the next line. ChatGPT gave me many things to try, and none have worked. I'm using Chrome on a PC and an external keyboard on a desktop computer. It works in other programs and on my phone. Help!

My google chrome profile is asking to be validated on all of my devices. When I hit the button to verify it's you, it takes me to a page telling me I am at risk of losing access to your saved passwords. Then it says that one or more of my password recovery options will soon expire. Details how to setup Android screen lock (is enabled on my Google Pixel that I bought a few months ago.

I have no idea what I need to do to get my account verified properly. Tried on my phone, on my laptop that is fully signed into my google account. Nothing seems to be working.

All of a sudden, a lot of my web pages are looking weird. And when I took a screen shot of what I was seeing, it doesn't even look like what I am seeing. My screen doesn't look like a negative. The light spaces look dark and the dark spaces look light. I even deleted and reinstalled it and it automatically opened up the tabs from the last session.