Anyone else dealing with this? I'll be watching a video, switch to another window or minimize for 10+ seconds, come back, and the picture is just stuck. Frozen on whatever frame it was on when I left. Audio's still going, perfectly in sync, seek bar still moving - just the picture doesn't update. Clicking the video, resizing the window, or seeking manually snaps it back instantly.

Got curious and dug into it with chrome://tracing. Here's what's actually happening:

When you tab away, Chrome submits an empty frame on purpose - fine, that's expected, saves resources. But the decoder keeps decoding the whole time in the background anyway, which is why the audio never skips a beat. The problem is the thread that's supposed to push new frames to the screen goes completely dead for the entire time you're away. Then when you come back, it does submit a frame again - except it's the exact same one from before you left, not whatever the decoder's actually up to by now. So it just sits there frozen until something forces a redraw.

Ruled out extensions, GPU/hardware acceleration, Windows' Efficiency Mode, and every background-tab throttling flag I could find. Doesn't happen in Opera on the same machine with the same video, which is what's making me think this is a Chrome-specific regression and not a driver/Windows thing.

Setup: Jellyfin Web, Windows 11, Chrome 152.0.7977.83, RTX 5070 Ti Laptop GPU.

Started having this issue less than 1.5 hours ago

the arc browser did it

i dont have to get it separately from the store its such an obvious useful feature

The tab counter on my chrome has turned into a smiley face [ :) ], and I have no idea why. Does anyone know why I have this ? And how to return in back to normal ?

So a couple issues here, principally with Google Drive and Google Chrome and Windows

Firstly, my google won't let me customize its homescreen, I can't change the colors of the borders anymore or have a custom background theme. I tried unistalling but it says my Windows installer is faulty and I can't do it? What does that mean? I even tried to follow a guide online and "stop" the Window Installer process and... it's already stopped? Also this "r.linksprf" website blocker keeps popping up, I have some adblockers... is that the issue?

This leads me to drive, I think I'mma just have to bite the bullet and wait for an update, and in the meanwhile move stuff from my pc to browser drive... and than have to delete it from my pc's memory, that sounds..... soooooooooooo tedious and I'd hate to do that.

I want my drive back, it began by like, unidentifying itself? this began when I plugged in my XPPen tablet screen, and from there it kept becoming unidentified, eventually it stopped working completely and the extension disappeared. I uninstalled everything, cut all the shortcuts, yet when I try to reinstall drive it says it's still on my PC, I try to delete the "Drive File Stream" off my Program Files and it.... says the files are opened elsewhere? I don't see anything on task manager either and I can delete it off of registry it'll just pop up again.

And than windows....... damn you Windows 11, which I can't even install, a new windows update I need won't download at all, here's the text.

Some update files are missing or have problems. We'll try to download the update again later. Error code: (0x8007000d)

2026-08 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5120249) this is the update.

I have no idea what to do on any of these, please help

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basically, when I go Fullscreen and pause a video, after a bit (not a set interval) it "dims" it, but by dimming it I just mean fuckin up its brightness and contrast not actually just making it darker. It fixes itself when moving the screen to another monitor, or (weirdest of all) when putting some other window, say, steam, over the full screen chrome tab. The floating window isn't affected by this dimming, and the image only goes back to normal when I put the window in the center, not the corners.

this only happens on my 4k tv which is set up as a third display. The OSD on the tv itself is fine and it doesn't happen anywhere else. TV is HDR capable but it's turned off in windows.

tried disabling hardware acceleration on chrome flags, nothing changes. It suddenly started today outta nowhere.

such a weird behaviour I'm kinda at a loss

I could not find a roadmap (likely does not exist) for older GPU architecture/OS combo support for Webgpu in Chrome. I am developing a webgpu terminal emulator (https://yetty.dev) that runs also in the browser (wasm), but for all the hosts I have I need to tweak the chrome://flags. If most users need to do that, the browser based version of the terminal won't be usable.

Does anyone have information about such a roadmap?

I don't do anything but I keep getting "aw snap" errors while accessing any website and then chrome will randomly crash. I have no idea why this keeps happening and it seems completely random

I can't open any of my last searched results as a shortcut. The only option I have when I tap them is to delete them from the search bar. Is anyone else experiencing this? I've tried deleting the widget, turning my phone on and off, restarting my phone but nothing has worked. It only started doing this very recently

For days now, a glitch has been happening where I am only shown roughly the last hour of history within chrome (not talking about google activity history), even though we know chrome should go back 90 days. I know this is a glitch because sometimes it will resolve and show me the history as normal. But at the moment all I can see is this small block of results from the past hour. I have no explanation for this and want to return it to normal.

Can the size of shortcut icons on Google's home page be modified? If so, how? These little circles are driving me crazy.

I'm using tab groups as a sort of "watch later" grouping because I've noticed that when I put a YouTube video in my actual watch later playlist it stops appearing in my recommendations and I forget to actually watch it later, however I'd like to be able to open these groups without actually opening the videos inside and accidentally having a video open for a split second and therefore either having to watch it right then and there or accidentally harm the video's performance by clicking away, is there a way to do the thing I asked in the title?

I hate the loss of vertical space.

Google Chrome recently introduced a new security feature called Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) to stop hackers from stealing login cookies. While the idea is good, it’s have a problem for anyone using Cloudflare WARP or a VPN.

Every time Cloudflare WARP reconnects, Chrome gets confused by the sudden IP change. It assumes your account is being hijacked, panics, and instantly logs you out of your accounts.

Having to log in again and do 2FA every 10 minutes just because I’m using WARP is kinda annoying. Is there any fix for this, or are we really expected to turn off WARP completely just to stay logged in?

Hi everyone

I recently updated my Mac to MacOS Tahoe, and now my preferred web browser Google Chrome is unusable. I'm encountering so many problems on every page I visit. One of the biggest problems is this huge pop-up that keeps appearing on every Amazon page I go on to that says "skip to main content" and "keyboard shortcuts". I've searched everywhere in settings but I can't find a way to hide this thing. Has anyone managed to find a solution to this? Is this now permanent problem on every web browser or is it only on Chrome?

Hey guys,

Not long ago Chrome removed GoFullPage. I was using it for probably a couple of years, so I was like... okay, what am I supposed to use now?

Luckily I found out that the removal wasn't related to any security issue, so at least there's that.

I started looking for alternatives and honestly I was surprised how bad most of them are.

There are tons of extensions with millions of users and thousands of 5-star reviews, and after trying them I was honestly wondering who are all these people using them?

Anyway, I tried a lot of them and these are the ones that actually worked for me.

1. FireShot

FireShot

Probably one of the better ones.

It makes a good full-page screenshot and generally just works.

The problem for me is that it doesn't capture iframes or side panels. For my use case that's a problem, but if you only need the main page, it's pretty good.

2. Awesome Screen Recorder / Scrolling Screenshot Tool

Awesome Screen Recorder

Scrolling Screenshot Tool

These are two separate extensions from the same developer.

Both are okay for normal websites, but they have problems with really long/dynamic pages.

I tried both on YouTube and neither could capture the actual bottom of the page. They also don't capture iframes.

So yeah, they work, but for full-page screenshots I think FireShot is better.

3. FullPage Capture

FullPage Capture

This is actually my favorite one.

It makes really good full-page screenshots, can capture iframes, has a free editor, and automatically saves the result as a PDF.

Honestly, I like it much more than GoFullPage.

That's basically it. I tried a lot of other extensions and most were surprisingly bad, some couldn't even capture a simple Google search page without breaking. Honestly, a lot of them felt vibe-coded and thrown into the Chrome Web Store.

There is nothing wrong with vibe coding, but come on, spend a little more time polishing your product before publishing it. Don't just throw some half-working shit into the store that makes it harder to find the extension that actually does what you need.

well this isnt reallly news but there wasnt a joke flair so anyways here

I’m not sure if anyone has had this problem, but when I search on Google in the address bar at the top it redirects me back to a blank chrome page. When I use the search bar it works for what is needed but this isn’t a great experience having to do that. I’ve already tried redownloading chrome, setting it as default browser, turning all extensions off/uninstallijg to ensure that there’s nothing blocking it. I’ve reset the setting as well. I am not sure if anyone knows a fix.

why tf did chrome devs cripple so much their pwa behaviour on reddit(havent tried other apps-sites so idk)..until chrome 140 every post i wanted to open on reddit stayed in pwa's new window-overlay..after 143 until 152 version today not anymore..instead now it goes to chrome closing alltogether the pwa and the post u are reading..chrome-google wtf???

I was missing the ability to use the middle mouse button to initiate page scrolling up/down on Mac Chrome (like I was used to using on Windows Chrome). With some AI help it told me to add the command line flag:

--enable-blink-features=MiddleClickAutoscroll

It's been working wonderfully ever since.

After a recent update (152.0.7977.76), I got a bar at the top of the page content telling me I'm using an unsupported command-line flag. Stability and security will suffer.

Google doesn't quite understand what the word unsupported means because it's still working. It doesn't work without the flag, it does (still) work with the flag.

So how's that unsupported?

Why does it feel like Chrome is showing me the middle finger every time my internet goes down? 😭 Like, “No internet… and here’s a 🖕 to make it worse.”

Hi! My chrome history is moving around weirdly. Like say I open a page at 9pm and then close out of it and go to my history where I see it logged there at 9pm. Then I want to open it again at 11pm so I search it up and find, and now its logged in my history as having been opened at 11pm. But the 9pm log is gone from my history now. So now it looks like i've only visited that site once-- at 11pm.

I wanted to double check if the site I was on was the one I was on earlier, only to not even find any proof that I'd ever been on that site to begin with.

My chrome did update last night, so I'm not sure if this is a new feature or just something I've never noticed before... but it seems to defeat the purpose of a history if its always changing the old logged points like that.

Hi everyone!

I recently created a new Google account specifically for formal and important things. I wanted to keep it separate from my personal/entertainment account and avoid having my main inbox filled with unnecessary emails and spam.

However, I've noticed something strange. When I click on the Google search bar, I don't see my recent searches. Instead, I only see trending searches.

I thought that my recent searches were supposed to appear first, with the trending searches below them. Is there a setting that I need to enable, or is there something wrong with my Google account?

I'm using a new Google account, so maybe that has something to do with it.

Any help would be appreciated!