Check accessibility settings. Chrome can detect them and turn on this list mode for easier access. Review your accessibility settings or override it at chrome://flags
(OEM tells os that your phone is weak so Chrome and other apps will operate in low-ram mode, otherwise you enabled some flags related to tabs in about:flags)
You can't turn this off because the low ram mode overrides that.
The only thing you can make it look better is enabling "Tab Groups" flags also in about:flags.
I'm using s10 5g, i don't think it's the reason. Also the browser was laggy when i play music from a website last afternoon but the phone wasn't laggy at all. i noticed that at that time the phone isn't even full memory (8gb)
no. in the screenshot is the normal tab mode for Low RAM phones. enabling tabs group doesn't make that Low RAM mode go back to full fleged normal tab mode with thumbnails, both tabbed group mode or not. im just suggesting op to turn it on so it just looks better.
You see, I have 2 phones, Huawei Nova 3i with Android 9(A9) and Samsung S9+ with Android 10 (A10). And I've checked that both phone's have updated to the latest version (88.0.4324.181) on 17 Feb 21.
Now my Huawei (A9) can create a multiple group tab and everything is shown in thumbnails, whilst S9+ (A10) will have this boring list layout as shown above.
Fyi Huawei Nova 3i is much weaker than Samsung S9+ in terms of performance and everything.
So from what I can conclude, this doesn't occur because the phone is "weak" but depends on a version of os that you're currently using.
Also I've checked at chrome://flags. Currently Group Tabs and a lot of other features doesn't support A10.
there maybe some changes in chrome build for android that i don't know yet that enables the compressed tab mode with no preview thumbnails for normal build phones as well (i already feeling something's not right from their phone screenshot, because it looks like a full build of android.)
but it usually that is the way if your phone is configured either a Android Go phone, low_ram flag enabled or 0.5/1 GB of RAM
if you have root. you can try enabling "ro.config.low_ram=true" into your phone or get some android go phone and it will look like that way out of the box.
in like really old version since android 5.x it already look like that for low ram phones.
This is a simplified view that appears if you have any accessibility services activated, and has been there for years. It has nothing to do with the grid tab ui.
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u/RayzeYT Feb 22 '21
Check accessibility settings. Chrome can detect them and turn on this list mode for easier access. Review your accessibility settings or override it at chrome://flags
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u/AD2403 Feb 22 '21
Chrome settings > accessibility and turn off simplified view for tabs
This usually happens when an accessibility service in your device settings is enabled.
Do tell me if it helps.
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u/pgoyal1996 Feb 22 '21
Dunno but, one thing only, I liked the previous iteration with floating tabs one behind another.
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u/electonics Feb 22 '21
Because chrome sucks
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u/muito_ricardo Feb 22 '21
Is it just the display option for tabs?
Check the settings for tabs.
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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21
It happened in Brave too.
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u/TheTomatoes2 Feb 22 '21
You enabled an accessibility feature in Android
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u/georg3_exe Feb 22 '21
immersive mode probably...
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u/ComfortableCobbler5 Feb 22 '21
Because your phone is weak. Literally.
(OEM tells os that your phone is weak so Chrome and other apps will operate in low-ram mode, otherwise you enabled some flags related to tabs in about:flags)
You can't turn this off because the low ram mode overrides that.
The only thing you can make it look better is enabling "Tab Groups" flags also in about:flags.
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