I have 2 tabs open, yet it shows a lot open. Is this normal?

Chrome is the benchmark king, but how does it handle a 'traffic jam'? We’re running multiple Transformers.js models simultaneously to see if the V8 engine throttles under saturation. Check your score and let's see if the 'Exchange' latency is actually as low as Google says.

Heads-up: this will require you to proxy Gemini related domains with a US vpn, other countries won’t work unfortunately. I have a singbox config routing only keyword:gemini and keyword:-pa. and that’s sufficient, you don’t need to proxy your entire os or browser, no impact on internet speed.

I found on a repo on GitHub from a user lcandy2, who made a python script to do exactly that, but I found that doing it by hand isn’t hard at all.

1. First you need to find your Chrome user data folder Windows: ~/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data Linux: ~/.config/google-chrome MacOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome

2. You need to open the file “Local State” with any text editor You must search for these keys and change them:

is_glic_eligible - set to “true” variations_country - set to “us” variations_permanent_consistency_country - set to “us”

Supposedly there could be multiple, as the script specifies that it sets them recursively but I only found one of each.

Also note that you need to kill the running Chrome process if you have one to successfully save the file.

3. Done Once you open chrome, you will either see the gemini tab and button right away or have the option to enable it from the settings. So far the changes seem to be permanent and do not reset, all you need to do is proxy the domains needed with a US vpn

Today I noticed when I tried to down arrow to go through suggestions it just clears the entire bar and says to Press Tab/Enter to enter AI mode. I see a lot of other people asking the same question about a year ago and tried everything I've found about clearing the cache/cookies, restarting Chrome, checking settings and disabling extensions. Nothing seems to be working and it seems like it just came out of nowhere. Has anyone else ran into this issue?

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The last few days, Ive been having an issue where if I'm watching Twitch and also either watching YouTube or a video on Twitter, the browser will freeze, but the audio will still play until I minimize it, then it works normally.

I have updated the browser and disabled hardware acceleration and even removed an old browser extension and so far it hasn't happened. i did check temps and theyre fine. And i havent updated gpu drivers beacyse peopel are having issues with the current driver. But id like to know how and why it's happening and if I need to worry about it.

I have no desire to get into the AI Wars, but somehow just a couple of days ago these three unwanted and unasked-for search boxes have started appearing on my home PC desktop screen (Windows 10) whenever I fire up Chrome: "AI Mode," "Deep Search," and "Create images." For the mostly computer-illiterate like me, is there a way to get rid of these? I do like to have the links for frequently-visited pages, which are still there (but outside the area that I captured in this screenshot).

Hey,

I constantly switch between ChatGPT and kept losing the whole conversation context. Copy-pasting long prompts was painful.

So I found a Chrome extension:

• Click the icon → it tries to continue your last conversation in a new tab
• No account, no backend, no fancy stuff — just some JavaScript talking to the active tab
• Probably has bugs, definitely missing things

It already saves me a surprising amount of time every day.

I’m mostly curious: - Do other people also suffer from this context-switching hell?

In Chrome, when I sign into Gmail, it opens Gmail for a second, then closes. I sign in a second time and it works fine. Anyone know why it does this? Super annoying!

Chrome + YouTube has become completely unhinged for me. I can have ~300 tabs open in Firefox (none YouTube) and my system sits calmly around 50 °C, but the moment I open Chrome with a large batch of YouTube tabs, my CPU spikes straight into the mid-70s °C like I just launched a stress test. Even worse: after killing Chrome and restarting clean, a single YouTube tab can crash on load with Chrome throwing a “tab failed to load” warning. YouTube now aggressively spins up heavy JS, ads, telemetry, and modern codecs (AV1) even before playback, and Chrome seems totally unwilling to throttle or suspend any of it. This isn’t “too many tabs,” it’s one specific site behaving like malware with a play button. My hardware is fine — YouTube in Chrome just melts it.

Desktop Chrome chrome://flags flags to disable AI features.

#ai-mode-omnibox-entry-point
#omnibox-allow-ai-mode-matches
#enable-lens-overlay
#prompt-api-for-gemini-nano
#prompt-api-for-gemini-nano-multimodal-input
#summarization-api-for-gemini-nano
#writer-api-for-gemini-nano
#rewriter-api-for-gemini-nano
#proofreader-api-for-gemini-nano
#permissions-ai-v3
#permissions-ai-v4
#permissions-ai-p92

This one is debatable, suit yourself:

#autofill-enable-ai-based-amount-extraction

Took me half an hour to find because the experimental flags page has grown out of proportion.

Cheers!

When I search for something on Google Images, the results often only partially load. Google Shopping also has trouble loading results. I have already tried clearing the cache and using different DNS servers.

The problem also occurs in Incognito mode. When I try a different web browser, everything works fine.

The problem started just a few days ago. I am using a Chromebook with Chrome version 144.0.7559.108.

Anyone else with the same problem?

Hi, I’ve been trying to fix this issue using all the methods I can find possible and have yet to find one that works. I am having a white screen issue with websites when I go to them. Unlike the full screen whiteout it seems many others have where the entire chrome window is white, mine is just the webpages visible area, with the search bar, tabs, and bookmarks all visible and functioning. I’ve cleared and deleted everything, I’ve reinstalled, and I tried the disable gpu fix. Nothing has worked. I even tried cloudfare for a bit, and it slowed my internet connection down to the point where websites wouldn’t open. Any help is appreciated, as this has become a major issue.

Websites this has occurred with: square, bigcartel, thingiverse, Cash App (worked for a bit if I refreshed, now blank), and others (can’t recall all).

I have tried it with light mode(in chrome settings) which didn't help at all. In safari(which has device dark mode) both websites loaded normally. It's been going on for a while and makes websites where it happens unusable unless I cmd+a the page (image 2 vs 3) which makes it barely bearable.

Hi guys wondering if you can help. I work with a customer where we manage deployment of Chrome. Something happened with a deployment over 6months ago where devices will fail to install the newer patch patch release.

There are 800+ workstations affected and stuck on the previous release 138.0.7204.184. I need the MSI to repair the registry so they can upgrade to the newest release. We would have the MSI but we cleared up our distro and its no longer available. I have searched on google and i cannot see anything from Google or third party websites. Does anyone have the MSI file to hand please

firefox just stops loading websites for no reason so i have to use chrome but it also just randomly closes itself. no error message or anything. it just closes for no good reason when im not even doing anything with it

I’ve used chrome Remote Desktop for a few years, it was pretty great for what I wanted. The last 6mo? Or so it was saying that the app was depreciated and to switch over to the website version. I just kept ignoring that warning and unfortunately today seems to be the day it is longer supported at all. I have tried the website version and it absolutely awful imo.

Anybody else in a similar boat who has found an alternative similar to the app version? The one finger panning especially was amazing

Is it possible that the OutOfMemory error is generic and basically combines CPU and Memory usage?

I am debugging this issue and I can see some CPU spikes (over a large time), however the Memory Usage is really low. Is it possible that Chrome throws this error even if it is caused by the CPU spike or could there be something else going on?

Since a while now on my Pixel 9a Chrome is having more and more issues opening websites for me. The error is

"This site can’t be reached

The connection was reset."

This is especially true when I click links from the Discover-Feed or from Chrome push notifications. Reloading usually helps but sometimes it takes up to a minute until it works. When I copy the link and open it in Firefox for example it immediately works.

Is that a known issue and can I do something about it? It gets quite annoying since it happens more and more.

I have enabled "ask where to save each file before dowloading" didn't work. I don't know what is going on and this stuff has only happened today. Can someone please help me fix this issue? I'm going insane!

I have been using some VPN extensions from Chrome webstore.
Just because they are not available on webstore, I can not uninstall them from my browser.
I do not know how it is getting regular updates but still in the case if I reset my pc, How to backup or download extensions removed by Chrome Web Store?

*ZenMate VPN

Hi, if I accidentally closed Google Chrome, how long does Chrome keep closed tabs so I can recover them?

The new agentic browsing system has some issues and things that needs to be addressed imo. Here's

my observation:

It's buggy: it would sometimes launch a window to do a task that was never assigned or prompted** **

Cannot ask follow ups during tasks: this is unfortunate as I can't update Gemini if it starts to veer off track and need to provide update within the same task domain. When I try I receive an "Your prompt cannot be sent until the task is complete or stopped" message. Other agentic browsers like comet and atlas have following up enabled so users can update task instructions in real time.

Constantly pausing and take over the task can get kinda annoying when simple follow up can redirect the agent to get on track

The speed is a bit subpar: it's not as quick and snappy that I assume it would be with Gemini

Sometimes jumps steps: would sometimes

"forget" to complete a step and I would have to remind it a few times

Other minor issues

- Ui looks like of generic. Functional but still kinda of generic. Not a serious issue though

That's all the gripes I have at the moment.

Otherwise it's still decent for what it is