AI is finding hundreds of vulnerabilities every month. I read that Chrome is supposed to check for updates every 5 hours, but it's been longer than that and most of our systems are still on version 150.0.7871.129. We're not being prompted to update to 150.0.7871.182. How often are you prompted to update?

An issue I've only discovered recently, it was very confusing at first.

Using Tumblr as an example, the main feed is tumblr.com/dashboard, and the setting pages are tumblr.com/settings/account and /settings/privacy, etc. All of these pages have the same title, just the single word "Tumblr". So if you visit several of these pages at different times, or if you keep these pages open in different tabs at the same time, Chrome's history tab would only save one single entry for Tumblr, with the URL being based on which page has been loaded most recently. I just want it to go back to normal, saving based on different URLs instead of titles.

Tumblr is the most obvious example I could think of, and there aren't many other websites I visit that have the same title for different URLs. But I've confirmed that this issue isn't exclusive to Tumblr, it happens with Pixiv too, so this has to be an issue with Chrome.

Hello there,

I have this reccurent problem when I am staying too long on a window I can no longer open a new tab.

Do you know what is the problem and how to fix it ?

Thanks

Why this happen in my chrome when i search and click link

My laptop died and is no longer able to boot up (Critical Process Died error) the repair shop said they believe my hardware is fine and the OS is corrupted and will need Windows reinstalled. I have a ton of tabs still stored in Chrome, about 100. How can I retrieve those tabs if possible before or after the reinstall? Thanks.

How do I return these bottom options to the top.

Originally they weren't down there.

I recently moved back to Chrome after spending quite a bit of time using ChatGPT Atlas. Since Atlas is being discontinued, Chrome makes sense for me, especially because I can use ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini directly from the sidebar.

But there’s one Atlas feature I miss, and I haven’t found a good replacement for it.

In Atlas, you could focus any text field, trigger a shortcut (cmd + E), and get a small prompt bubble. You could ask it to write (or rewrite) something, and it would use the full context of the current page. It wasn’t trying to be an agent or run a workflow, it was simply a very good contextual writing assistant.

For example: “Write a concise, friendly reply to this email,” “turn this into a Reddit post,” or “reply to this WhatsApp message.” It understood the page and gave you text you could use immediately.

Most Chrome sidebars seem to handle this poorly. They try very hard to become agents: creating drafts, scanning inboxes, analysing things, launching multi-step workflows, etc. That can be useful sometimes, but it’s slow and overkill when all I want is excellent contextual writing help in the field I’m currently typing in.

Has anyone found a Chrome extension or workflow that gets close to this? Ideally:

• Works from any text field via a shortcut
• Understands the current page’s context (very) well
• Lets me give a simple writing prompt
• Returns text quickly
• Is not agentic / doesn’t start heavy workflows

I’d love recommendations

This stupid bar wasting space on my screen always shows up on websites I visit and I have tried every stupid method under the sun but there is no direct way to disable this worthless button on my screen. I swear to god (whom must be dead) I will switch browsers because google keeps shoving AI shit DOWN MY THROAT.

I don't get how up this is. Where is you delete something and they keep it all tabs groups how do stop this madness

After a certain threshold, whenever I press F or click the full-screen button on YouTube in Chrome, the browser window temporarily disappears or drops to the desktop before/after full-screen transitions.

This behaviour is seen when I am using twitch on brave. I have purchased a new macbook. And it is very annoying can you help me diagnose this issue?

Is this a known Chrome GPU rendering bug or a macOS Space transition glitch? Any fix recommendations?

Please find the screen recording of the same here: https://youtu.be/Gj1fHE3-u0o

Thanks

After a certain threshold, whenever I press F or click the full-screen button on YouTube in Chrome, the browser window temporarily disappears or drops to the desktop before/after full-screen transitions.

Also, this behaviour is seen when I am using twitch on brave. I have purchased a new macbook. And it is very annoying, can you help me diagnose this issue?

Is this a known Chrome GPU rendering bug or a macOS Space transition glitch? Any fix recommendations?

Please find the screen recording of the same here: https://youtu.be/Gj1fHE3-u0o

Thank you.

I'm at my wits end here...

I've went into the Chrome settings and added custom websites to open on start, and it just completely ignores that and opens bing.

I've even removed all search engines from the settings and STILL it opens bing.

I want to get rid of bing, completely, absolutely, unequivocally.

I do not want this garbage on my internet browser... It should open the websites I tell it to open.

We use Chrome enterprise latest version Version 150.0.7871.129 (Official Build) (64-bit) and when double clicking downloaded files from chrome://downloads it doesnt do anything no errors they just dont open. If you browse to the folder and double click the downloaded files they open fine. We do redirect chrome downloads to a UNC location on users home drives via DFS path. I have reset chrome settings and disabled all extensions ect but didnt work the previous 150.x version also did the same. If i log in as local admin who doesnt have a redirected chrome downloads it works fine

when i click copy all as har, and paste it into notepad theres no response source of any requests or should i say no content -> "cookies": [],

"content": {

anyone knows a fix or an extension for it?

Hello, i used to have a bout 7 google accounts on my laptop but suddently lost all and had to login in into all of them, was able to do htat for the ones i use the most frequently but all my 'alts' were maded too long ago with no double othentifications, anyone have a similar probleme when they woke up this morning? Is there a way to restore the accounts i previously had on the same device? Any help is welcomed

I've been writing TypeScript professionally for a few years, but a browser extension was new territory for me — just shipped my first one, a CSS/design inspector, and a few things about extension development itself surprised me enough to write them down. Not really a product post, more notes from a first-timer.

A few things that got me:

• Manifest V3's service worker model doesn't keep anything alive the way you'd instinctively expect. If state needs to persist, it goes through storage, not memory — cost me a genuinely confusing debugging session before that clicked.
• Chrome's sidePanel API is more generous than what Firefox offers for the same job (a persistent sidebar UI). Building for both meant discovering how much the platforms diverge in places I assumed were standardized by now.
• Permissions are a UX problem as much as a technical one — every optional-permission prompt is a moment a real user can bounce, so most of the actual design work ended up being "ask for this only at the point someone actually needs it," not upfront.
• Both stores' review process forces you to write an honest data-collection disclosure, which was a good exercise in being straight with myself about what the thing actually sends over the network. Turned out to be almost nothing — one optional license check, and that's it.

If anyone else here has built for both Chrome and Firefox, curious what surprised you, or what you wish someone had told you before you started.

(For context if anyone's curious: the project is PeekCSS — computed CSS inspection, palette/font extraction, contrast checking. Not the point of this post, but happy to answer questions.)

I tried asking gemini, it says it is the Touch to Search feature. That's off. It says whoops, actually it's a search labs thing. I'm not enrolled.

What the heck is it, it's driving me insane. See circled item in photo, followed by what happens when I click it.

I read a manhwa and find a sauce pic at the end. I used Google Lens in the past to find Reddit posts of people asking about the manhwa. Finding the manhwa within 1-2 minutes.

Now the mf won't even load images after 10 minutes! Not only that, if I try to translate text, it copies the text perfectly into the search bar, but instead of translating, there's like 50 squares on the side menu that are loading. I think it was searching for matching images, which is STUPID considering I only asked for it to translate the text.

A year ago it was fast and worked really well. Now? It's slow and I only use it to copy foreign text so I, MYSELF, can search up "translate" and then have google translation do it for me.

Honestly, I don't think it will ever load those images if I did try to keep using it to find matching images.

Billions of dollars spent on this ai crap.

Instagram opening our

I'm using the Codex Chrome Extension to interact with web pages. In many cases, the browser opens successfully, but Codex often:

• Times out before completing the task.
• Fails to retrieve the information displayed on the page.
• Reads only part of the page content.
• Stops responding after opening the page.

What I've tried

• Waiting for the page to finish loading before asking Codex to continue.
• Breaking the task into smaller steps instead of one long prompt.
• Refreshing the page and retrying.
• Using simpler prompts.

These approaches improve the success rate slightly, but the problem still occurs frequently.

My questions

1. Are there any best practices for making Codex interact with Chrome more reliably?
2. Is there a recommended way to write prompts so that Codex waits for the page to become fully stable before reading or interacting with it?
3. Are there any browser settings, Chrome Extension settings, or debugging techniques that can help reduce timeouts?
4. For authenticated internal web applications, is the Chrome Extension the recommended approach, or should I be using another browser automation solution (such as Playwright MCP)?

I'm mainly looking for practical recommendations or workflows that have worked well for others.

Thanks in advance!

Anyone else having this issue? Long press on address bar, set to bottom. Address bar still remains on top even after closing app and reopening.

The default sound for calendar notifications in Chrome (for Google Calendar) are really jarring, distracting and unpleasant. They can really upset my concentration, especially on days when I'm tired.

Apparently, you used to be able to change it in Windows or IOS (according to Copilot). I cannot figure out any access to make a setting change, on either OS or Chrome itself. There are no articles in Google Calendar Help.

Does anyone in the community know more? I could use an assist. Thanks!

Yesterday I started getting a major error on Chrome browser.

I'll be watching a video and the website becomes unresponsive. I can click off to another tab and that tab will function just fine (I'm typing this up while youtube is unresponsive), but I can't do anything on the page itself. And eventually the browser will ask me if I want to wait or kill the page.

Sometimes closing that tab and reopening it will fix it and sometimes I have to restart the computer. I've also tried clearing the browser's cache and the only extension I have active is my password manager.

this happened sometimes but it irritates me. Right before when i am working, i saw that chrome remove tabs by itself, idk maybe button triggers it but i am not sure. I searched and someone said maybe its because memory saver mode, but mine is off

I’ve deleted every browser, deleted the old chrome, turned off s mode, check my computer for viruses and still NOTHING!