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

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.

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

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

The address bar keeps looking like it’s popping out and acting weird. I haven’t been able to figure out what’s going on, or how to make it stop..

Anybody know what’s going on?

I added a few locations in Developer Tools so that I can change my location for some sites. Is there a way to export/import these locations, or add them programmatically with a script? Or are they stored in a file somewhere that I can just replace? It gets a little tedious having to add them back in every time when setting up a new VM. I suppose I could always set up a baseline VM with them added, but curious to see what other options I may have.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.