recently microsoft made windows 11 20% more efficient, consuming less ram. we should send suggestions to google to make chrome more efficient so that it can run on lower end pcs. thoughts?

I hate that it's on the right side now is there an option to put it back where it was

Tl;dr is the title, basically. Help please!!

I had probably 10-15 groups and a bunch of tabs open on my iphone. I held down to move a tab to a group and all of a sudden everything disappeared except that one tab.  I know I didn't hit clear all tabs and groups because the 2nd message didn't pop up. I’m not even sure the menu to select where to move it popped up, I think instead it actually moved around a little on the screen before whatever happened happened? I’m not sure though because I’m kind of short circuiting from having portions of my brain’s external storage seemingly evaporate in a split second for no apparent reason.

By far the weirdest part (to me anyways) is that the only thing other than the one tab that didn’t vanish is 5 groups, all say created 1 year ago and seem to be old ones, the tabs within them aren’t anything I’ve opened or added recently, and I’m fairly sure I had saved new tabs to at least one of the groups in recent months and there’s nothing new or recent there that I see.

(I have looked in recently closed tabs and don’t see anything there. Some history does seem to exist when I look at the iPhone history from my laptop so I’m hoping I can reconstruct some from there, but nothing about the missing groups anywhere i can see. I actively use chrome with this account on 3 devices and less often on a fourth)

If you are running an older PC or laptop (like 1st, 2nd, or 3rd Gen Intel Core processors with old Intel HD Graphics), modern Chrome and Edge disable hardware acceleration by default because your GPU only supports DirectX 10/10.1 instead of DirectX 11.

This forces your CPU to do 100% of the work, causing choppy scrolling and 100% CPU usage when watching videos. Here is how to force it back on and fix video playback.

Step 1: Enable the Chrome Flags

1. Open Chrome and type chrome://flags in the address bar.

2. Search for Override software rendering list (#ignore-gpu-blocklist) and set it to Enabled.

3. Search for Choose ANGLE graphics backend (#use-angle) and set it to D3D11 (this allows the DirectX 10 fallback flag in Step 2 to work properly).

Close Chrome completely before moving to Step 2.

Step 2: Add the DirectX 10 Launch Flag

Google removed the old ANGLE fallback flag from chrome://flags, so you have to add it directly to your browser shortcut:

1. Make sure all Chrome windows are closed.

2. Right-click your Chrome shortcut (Desktop) and click Properties.

3. In the Target box, go to the very end, add a space, and paste this:

--enable-angle-features=allowES3OnFL100 --ignore-gpu-blocklist

1. Your Target line should look like this: "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --enable-angle-features=allowES3OnFL100 --ignore-gpu-blocklist

2. Click Apply and OK.

(Note: Always open Chrome using this edited shortcut so the flags stay active).

Step 3: Fix YouTube & Twitch Lag (Important!)

Even with GPU acceleration turned on, old GPUs cannot decode modern VP9 or AV1 video codecs used by YouTube, which will still spike your CPU to 100%.

1. Install the enhanced-h264ify extension from the Chrome Web Store.

2. Open the extension settings and check Block VP9 and Block AV1.

This forces YouTube to send H.264 video streams, which your old GPU can decode smoothly in hardware.

Step 4: Verify It Worked

1. Open Chrome using your edited shortcut.

2. Go to chrome://gpu.

3. Under Graphics Feature Status, check that Canvas, Compositing, Rasterization, and Video Decode now say Hardware accelerated (in green) instead of Software only.

Hope this helps breathe some new life into older machines!

As this is on a KDE Plasma machine I am not sure if this in the right flair. Are the labels vertical and horizontal swapped? Vertical means stacked on top of each other and horizontal stacked next to each other. However if I in Devtools I select Panel layout vertical is see a horizontal layout and vv. Is this by design? The screenshot shows vertical selected.

When I download an APK it downloads like usual but at the end it freezes and asks me if I want to download the file, you should ask me before I download the file, not after

Please help me please

I've been dealing with a really strange Google Search issue for months, and I'm wondering whether anyone else has experienced this or found a way to fix it.

Google has been rolling out a redesigned desktop homepage featuring:

• An "Ask Google" search bar instead of "Search Google or type a URL".

• A + button instead of the traditional magnifying glass.

• AI shortcut buttons underneath, including "Create images", "Ask about files", and "Brainstorm".

However, my main Google account consistently gets an older version of the homepage.

It's not the completely original Google homepage either. It has the AI Mode button, but it still uses the old search bar, has no + button, and doesn't have the new AI shortcut buttons.

Here's what I've tested:

• My main account gets the old interface across multiple computers, browsers, and devices.

• My other Google accounts get the new interface, even on the exact same computer and browser.

• When I visit Google.com without signing in, I get the new interface.

• Signing into my main Google account immediately switches it back to the old interface.

• On an unused computer, the new homepage initially appeared, but disappeared after signing into my main Google account.

• This also happens when I sign into Google directly without enabling Chrome Sync.

• My main account is actually about a year younger than one of my other accounts.

I've already submitted feedback to Google, but haven't found a solution.

My question is: Is there some hidden Google Search setting, account preference, Labs experiment, or server-side configuration that could be forcing my account to use this older homepage?

I would really appreciate any suggestions. I'm particularly interested in finding an actual fix rather than workarounds like using another account or staying signed out.

Thanks!

Drafted with AI because I tried to ask for help with ChatGPT and it did not help and I did not want to restate it again.

Random post, but I wonder why Google Chrome is always updating or has an update 😭

Hey there! I’m reaching out since I recently try using my Nord VPN while surfing the web but failed to do so. Every time I open an incognito tab on Chrome while VPN is on it forces me to do a captcha and once I do it forces me to sign in on a google account.

If I turn the VPN off, I can access the incognito tab and all goes normal. Any idea what’s going on?

I am not using a vpn and this only happens when I am connected to my home wifi using my laptop. I have the same issues when using google on Firefox and this happens even when I’m not using incognito. Before this, I kept on having to do reCAPTCHAs to verify that I’m real but now I don’t even have that option. While I’m aware incognito does not mean “private” in the way we think it does, I feel like having to sign in defeats some of its purpose.

I’m assuming it has something to do with IP address and I saw an article about this but if anyone can shed more light on what’s happening I would appreciate it.
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-sign-in-verify-41808.html

Apparently, you can check whether your competitors are implementing WebMCP on their websites.

I came across Google's WebMCP debugging documentation, and there's a dedicated option for it in Chrome DevTools.

Here's how to check:

1. Open Chrome DevTools.

2. Go to Applications.

3. Click WebMCP.

4. Check the Available Tools section.

You can see what tools a website exposes to AI agents, including actions related to forms and other site interactions.

Interesting way to see who's already experimenting with the AI-powered web.

Have you tried WebMCP yet?

Why no auto update for Mac OS Chrome ?

Each time should manual update it. Does it need any settings ?

Thank

I've been opening previous session every time I use my home PC, and had like 100 tabs I needed to check or go thru.

I got on to check something (without opening that) and of course ended up opening and then closing several tabs, before I remembered.
I had shut down as well, if that matters.

Any way to get all those tabs back, like deleting previous things so that group shows up in my recent things under history again?

Thanks for any help (not great with computers so would need simple/complete steps).

Since I've updated Chrome, I've noticed that the color for incognito tabs became slightly more bluish. No one noticed this, but I did. Why did they change the palette?

since chrome started keeping closed tab groups as saved groups i make one for basically every project or trip i'm planning. problem is they just pile up and i reopen maybe a couple of them

how do you all use them? do you go back to them regularly, or is saving a group mostly a nicer way to close tabs without feeling bad about it lol

also curious if anyone cleans them out or just lets the list grow

I was using an old PC running windows 7, on that PC, I have firefox and chrome. On each browser, I have a different yahoo acct. And I can easily stay SIGNED IN on both browser under Windows 7.

Now upgraded to Windows 11, on a new PC, again, I have firefox and chrome. And once again, on each browser, I have a different yahoo acct. The firefox acct. can stayed signed in, but the chrome acct. is a different story.

It memorize my username, and the "Stay Signed IN" box is CHECKED ON. But it won't automatically enter my pwd., so after I click NEXT under my username, I have to enter my pwd., and click NEXT.

Then yahoo ask me 2 stupid question daily: "Sig in w/ your finger printer or code", so I click "Skip"

then yahoo ask e "Turn on 2 step verification" and I said Skip

so ea. day, I have to do the above 4 steps to sign in to yahoo.com

all my gmail acct. does not have the above problems on neither browser

and firefox can view my other yahoo acct. w/o the above steps.

Is there a way to have Chrome store my yahoo password?

My cache setup is the same as my old PC. I have a 18GB RAM Disk, all daily cache is dumped over there, once the PC is turn off, all cache is erased

For months I havent been able to use chrome on my phone, it simply stopped loading pages one day, even though I have an internet connection, I tried using other browsers, but over time, they started having the same issues as chrome. On my other devices, the browser works perfectly fine, even though they are connected to the same wifi network

Started today to have this new issue with Chrome where when I launch it or open a new tab it behaves normally but then right after it freezes/lags for a couple seconds. Windows 11 just had an update, and possible fixes or is anyone else experiencing this issue?

toward the end of October, livejournal (I'm old) suddenly would not load on my laptop (chromebook), giving this message. I've tried every fix recommended and no changes. now it's even doing it on my phone. is there any solution? does Chrome just hate this domain? I'm bored.

This was a problem that occured a couple of years ago with a chrome update, and the old fixes don't seem to work anymore. Any suggestions for how to fix this?

The previous thread.

https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/18hh6n5/bookmarks_in_bookmarks_bar_are_too_big_i_have_to/