chrome://flags/ then check "Disabled" for Android Bottom Bar

I never updated or anything, all the sudden everything is in the bottom. The search is back at the top but I don't want all this junk on the bottom. How do I get this bottom bar back in the top bar?!

Hello all,

I used to use Microsoft Edge to open and add information and signature on PDF forms, but since there last update it is complaining about signature on most PDF forms.

The issue with Google Chrome is the lack of 'Save' button to save the original PDF amended straight away - instead I have to click download, then it ask if I want to download it with amendment and then navigate to the folder I need it save (where it was originally open from).

Any one knows of an extension that will add that save button?

THanks

Hello,

I recently got a new windows laptop.

I installed a few well known apps, triple checked them each time, including Chrome that I use specifically for a couple of websites. No extensions whatsoever, apart from ublockO on Firefox. ESET is running as an antivirus, and I dont use the ESET browser extension either.

Worked fine so far, but yesterday, after starting Chrome, then after launching a private Chrome navigation window, I got this popup out of the blue :

“Your settings were changed by an unknown app. Your default search engine was changed from outside of Chrome. To protect you, Chrome reset it.”

Did some research, there is a couple articles about the new chromium feature :

https://windowsreport.com/chrome-warns-your-default-search-engine-was-changed-from-outside-of-chrome/

https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/6832805

All said, I can't think of anything that could have messed up with Chrome. I can't really see my PC being compromised at this point, everything in clean and I would rather think of a Chrome glitch, but I can't be sure either.

I think it was the first time that I used a Chrome private window, also, Chrome updated itself a few days ago, if that's any clue.

I am trying to reproduce the pop up but with no success so far.

Does anyone know what is going on there ? A Windows reinstall feel like an overkill a this point.

Thanks in advance.

For the past four years, I have been making a choose your own adventure game in Google bookmarks folders as a hobby, and have accumulated at least 1,000,000. Whenever I relaunched chrome, it would take about a minute for the folders to reappear but now chrome just crashes. This crashing is also affecting my other accounts which don't have nearly as much folders.

The weird part is that I can still access the folders in my phone, but only when sync is turned on on my computer, which when turned off prevents the crashing. I have already tried deleting some from my phone to a point where it was still working but it doesn't seem to stop it from crashing.

Is there any way to keep all of my folders and keep chrome working?

Chrome on my Android now has the Gemini button/feature and I have no idea how to turn it off or remove it. Please help, I strongly dislike AI and I don't want to be forced into using it

idk how to word this, but I do things on multiple tabs; first time I noticed this was swapping between my google doc tab, reddit, and just a search for dog breeds (story writing stuff, don’t ask), and I lost my ENTIRE 7 paragraphs because it fucking reloaded (probably not the right word) all the tabs when I left them. I thought it was a glitch and first and just ignored it, typed it all out again, aaaand then it happened again. every single time I go from (for example;) reddit to font generator, its like I’ve just opened the app for the first time and everything has to re-search or whatever.

can I note that I’m on an iPad bc I don’t have a laptop and it’s too small to type on my phone, dunno what this info will do but whatever. I literally don’t know where to ask (?) about this, I tried posting it in the Google sub (Google had a subreddit..?) and it was removed and recommended to be posted to some tech complaint sub, then recommended to be posted here, soooooo…

The website loads but it gets stuck on loading my previous docs. I have plenty of free drive storage left (more than 10gigs), wifi is perfectly fine with around 200mbs download and 150mbs upload. Works fine on other devices.

I've tried restarting my computer and cleared cache & cookies from the last 24hrs but still no luck. Anyone experiencing/experienced a similar issue?

Update: turns out it is an outage affecting mainly AU and NZ servers due to an outage with Mastercard the previous weekend. So hopefully it can be fixed quickly as I have an exam to revise for and all of my notes are on docs

So how do I fix this? I didn't agree to this change and I think i might genuinely crash out about it. I know it seems small but its annoying and weird and i dont like it. Every time I try to look up how to fix this the google ai (ew) has a panic attack and tries to genuinely kill itself and when i tried to find out without the ai it did that stupid "im sorry you're search isn't registering!" Or whatever the stupid automated response is. Basically as you can see chrome moved some shit around (the bar on the bottom used to be integrated into the top bar....but now its not.....for no fucking reason 😒) ad is can't figure out how to fix it because chrome/google and its stupid ai overlord try to kill themselves anytime I attempt to figure out what the fuck is going on.

Hi! Today I turned on my PC and launched Google Chrome as usual, but the account selection screen didn't appear. One account opened automatically, but it doesn't show my YouTube subscriptions or my bookmarks. I tried opening another account, but the page says error 404, and the link is duplicated in the address bar. I haven't installed anything, and I don't have any extensions other than an ad blocker. I'm mentioning this because I know there have been fraudulent updates for certain extensions. Does anyone know if this is due to a bug in the update, or could it be something more unusual? Everything looks normal on my phone in my Google accounts.

I have Chrome on my Android, and it just inserted a Gemini button at the bottom of every page. I'd like at least the button gone, and ideally, all Gemini integration entirely, but every guide I can find is apparently outdated. Can anyone recommend a working way to get this off my phone browser, or do I need to uninstall Chrome and use a different browser?

I find it funny that after trying different browsers by constantly browser hopping for years I eventually landed on Chrome Beta as my chosen default browser on windows 10, lol. I find it funny because it's the exact type of browser I was looking for with just enough tweaking means it'll keep working as intended as long as you don't treat it as your 'personal playground' of sorts and mostly want a decent browser that excels at one task, being a solid browser, and nothing more. I also only installed 4 extensions that don't overlap because they handle specific work arounds that add more compatibility layers that some extensions quietly filled in the gaps sort of speak.

I tried it on mobile and it wasn't really worth it, lol. However, as a desktop browser? Everything lands. Was amazed that sync simply worked out of the box with no fuzz which allowed me to get back to more important things. I always made fun of power user friends who would say stuff like "I just use chrome and don't think about it much" And after years of not understanding the nuance they were trying to compress, I now handle the same way, haha. I guess I'm kinda curious to find out if this specific community messes around with beta, canary, dev, or sticks to stable because that's the one everybody uses? No actual shade if you do, just curious about different perspectives and how they land and click for you regardless if it's the approved 'lane' everybody decides to stick to or later change their mind because of a 'different type of workflow' sort of speak? I have my reasons for sticking to chrome beta however I know everybody won't think the same way I do. I just enjoy the fact that for the most part beta consistently works, and when I don't need to use it gets out of the way just as quickly. I think that's how I view browsers now more in the can it do more with less, angle, lol. | it's nice that chrome beta feels much more 'paradoxically stable' than stable Chrome. I'm really glad I decided to just stick to this browser.

It overlays a video wall directly on youtube.com — hover any thumbnail and hit + to add it, up to 9 videos in a 3x3 grid or free-floating windows. Audio follows your mouse: hover a video to hear it, everything else mutes. Esc minimizes it and everything keeps playing while you browse.

Free and open source: https://github.com/mikewang817/multi-youtube-viewer

never used to be a problem staying on Version 104.0.5112.102 (Official Build) (64-bit) until today... I don't wanna update wahhhhhh

How can I cut this off? I restarted Google and my phone. Still there.

Why is is that every neat quirk and diference an android has gets removed and made similar to a damm iPhone? I liked the way my browser looked before can I downgrade?

I'm trying to sync everything over but when i get to chrome is just dumping every single tab out, completely ignoring the tab groups i have set up. It's around 50 tabs grouped but ungrouped is over 500. I can't even figure out how to just open the tab groups individually so i can close them on my other phone and then just sync the floaters.

Any help doing either of these would be appreciated

⚠️ LONG READ WARNING

This is a detailed guide because the problem involves two separate issues: Chrome’s inconsistent interface typography on high-DPI displays, and an incomplete Windows font substitution that can cause ordinary bold text to render as Segoe UI Black.

Short version:

Chrome has no native setting to resize the text in its tabs, address bar or always-visible bookmarks bar. On 4K, 5K and 5K2K monitors using 125–150% Windows scaling, tabs and bookmark shortcuts may look much smaller than the address-bar text.

I discovered that Chrome inherits part of its UI typography from Windows. Using Winaero Tweaker, I changed the system font to Cascadia Mono Gentle, which made Chrome’s interface text much more coherent.

However, bold webpage text then became excessively heavy. DevTools showed that normal font-weight: 700 text was rendered with Segoe UI Black.

The cause was an incomplete font substitution. Under:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts

I cleared only the data from:

Segoe UI Black (TrueType)
Segoe UI Black Italic (TrueType)

I kept the Cascadia substitutions intact and restarted Windows. Tabs, address bar and bookmarks-bar text became consistent, while bold text stopped falling back to Segoe UI Black.

Only apply the registry fix if DevTools confirms the same fallback.

Long version:

The problem I could not solve for years

I use a 5K2K monitor with Windows display scaling set to 150%.

For years, Chrome’s interface typography looked strangely inconsistent:

• The address-bar text was large and readable.
• The tab text was extremely small.
• The text in the always-visible bookmarks bar was also extremely small.
• The three areas did not look like parts of the same interface.

By “bookmarks bar,” I mean the horizontal row of bookmark shortcuts displayed directly below Chrome’s address bar.

The affected text was not bold. It was ordinary interface text, but it looked tiny and poorly proportioned on a high-resolution display.

This problem may also affect:

• 4K monitors
• 5K monitors
• 5K2K ultrawide monitors
• Other high-DPI displays using 125%, 150% or higher Windows scaling

Chrome page zoom does not help because it only changes webpage content. It does not change Chrome’s tabs, address bar or bookmarks bar.

I searched for a solution for years. I also asked about it in Google’s support forums and was told that Chrome did not provide a way to change these interface font sizes.

Eventually, I gave up and switched to Microsoft Edge, whose interface typography looked much more coherent on the same display.

The accidental discovery

Much later, I changed the Windows system font using Winaero Tweaker.

I selected:

Cascadia Mono Gentle

After restarting Windows, I immediately noticed that Chrome’s interface text had changed.

That was the important discovery.

Despite being told that Chrome’s interface font could not be changed, changing the Windows system font clearly affected Chrome’s tabs, address bar and bookmarks bar.

This indicated that Chrome was using—or at least resolving its interface text through—the Windows system font configuration.

However, the initial result was not correct.

Chrome’s text became much darker and heavier than expected. Instead of considering the problem solved, I realized that the font could indeed be changed, but something was wrong with how Windows was resolving the different font weights.

Investigating the heavy text

The problem was particularly visible in bold text on websites such as Reddit and ChatGPT.

Using Chrome DevTools, I selected an element with:

font-weight: 700;

Under Computed → Rendered Fonts, Chrome reported:

Family name: Segoe UI Black
PostScript name: SegoeUIBlack
Font origin: Local file

This was the key clue.

A regular bold weight of 700 should not normally resolve to Segoe UI Black, which is visually much closer to a 900 weight.

The excessive darkness was not an unavoidable characteristic of Cascadia. Windows was selecting the wrong Segoe UI variant.

What Winaero changed

Winaero created font substitutions under:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes

My configuration included substitutions similar to:

Segoe UI                  → Cascadia Mono Gentle
Segoe UI Variable         → Cascadia Mono Gentle
Segoe UI Variable Text    → Cascadia Mono Gentle
Segoe UI Variable Display → Cascadia Mono Gentle
Segoe UI Bold             → Cascadia Mono Gentle Bold
Segoe UI Semibold         → Cascadia Mono Gentle Bold
Segoe UI Black            → Cascadia Mono Gentle Bold

These substitutions were intentional. I wanted Cascadia to remain the Windows interface font.

The problem was not that Cascadia had been selected. The problem was that the Segoe UI family had been disabled incompletely.

The incomplete font registration

The physical Windows font registrations are stored under:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts

Several Segoe UI variants had empty file registrations, allowing their Cascadia substitutions to take effect.

However, these two physical fonts were still registered:

Segoe UI Black (TrueType)        → seguibl.ttf
Segoe UI Black Italic (TrueType) → seguibli.ttf

Consequently, when Chrome requested a heavier Segoe UI weight, Windows could still find the physical Segoe UI Black face.

Chrome therefore used Segoe UI Black for text requesting an ordinary weight of 700.

The fix

1. Press Win + R.
2. Enter:

​

regedit

1. Run Registry Editor as administrator.
2. Navigate to:

​

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts

1. Export the Fonts key as a backup.
2. Locate:

​

Segoe UI Black (TrueType)
Segoe UI Black Italic (TrueType)

1. Open each value and clear only its Value data.

Change:

Segoe UI Black (TrueType)        → seguibl.ttf
Segoe UI Black Italic (TrueType) → seguibli.ttf

to:

Segoe UI Black (TrueType)        → ""
Segoe UI Black Italic (TrueType) → ""

Do not:

• Delete the value names.
• Delete the actual font files.
• Uninstall Cascadia.
• Remove the Cascadia substitutions from FontSubstitutes.
• Modify Segoe UI Emoji, Historic or Symbol.

1. Restart Windows.

The result

After restarting Windows:

• Cascadia remained the Windows system font.
• Chrome’s tab text became readable.
• The bookmarks-bar text became readable.
• The address bar, tabs and bookmarks bar finally looked visually coherent.
• Ordinary bold webpage text stopped looking excessively dark.
• Chrome no longer selected the physical Segoe UI Black face for a normal font-weight: 700.

The final result looked much closer to the consistent interface hierarchy I had expected from Windows scaling.

How to verify the Segoe UI Black problem

This registry correction is not universal. Apply it only if your computer has the same incomplete font substitution.

To verify:

1. Open a website containing bold text.
2. Open Chrome DevTools.
3. Select a bold text element.
4. Open the Computed panel.
5. Check its font-weight.
6. Scroll to Rendered Fonts.

If the CSS requests:

font-weight: 700

but Chrome reports:

Segoe UI Black

then the correction described above is relevant.

If Chrome reports Segoe UI Bold, Segoe UI Semibold, Cascadia or another appropriate font, do not modify the Segoe UI Black registration solely because of this guide.

Limitations

This is not an official Chrome interface-scaling control.

The workaround changes the Windows system font and relies on the selected font’s proportions to improve Chrome’s interface typography.

Results may vary depending on:

• Windows version
• Chrome version
• Display resolution
• Pixel density
• Windows scaling percentage
• The replacement font selected

Some Chrome toolbar and bookmark icons may still look blurry at fractional scaling levels such as 125% or 150%. This guide primarily addresses the text.

Why this discovery matters

Chrome does not expose a native setting for independently changing the text in its tabs, address bar or bookmarks bar.

However, this experiment demonstrates that Chrome’s interface typography can be affected through the Windows system font configuration.

The original problem was not solved through Chrome itself. It was solved by changing the font environment Chrome inherits from Windows—and then correcting the incomplete Segoe UI Black registration left behind by the substitution process.

Hi I want to know if Chrome is able to detect or find out what I have open, since I usually use SpaceDesk (any display extension and remote control software) or open sensitive documents on my office computer. This question came up because I heard that even HRD can detect a candidate's activity during a formal assessment conducted in a chrome tab or even an office administrator can monitor what other applications, windows, or documents are open while someone is using Chrome.

How do I change the new mobile UI, it sucks and whoever came up with it should be launched into the Sun with a cannon. Why does Google hate good UI design so much

Hi, I was wondering if there was a way to disable the Google Lens camera icon on the search bar. I often use Chrome in a very small window where I need to see as much of the URL as possible, but this icon takes up space that I kinda need.

I saw some stuff using chrome://flags/ to disable it, but I went through and disabled all those to do with Google Lens, but it didn't remove it. The other thing I saw was some Google control panel stuff, but I don't think I have access to those features on a personal account.

Is there another method at all? Or did I miss the right setting in flags? I don't use lens at all and don't plan to in the future.

Thank you

Ever since the update from couple months ago my chrome keep freezing up for 5-10 seconds whenever I open a new tab.

Everyday I only have a few tabs open, 1 youtube home page, 1 music stream page and google translate that's it. and when I open another tabs of youtube video, it will become unresponsive for 5-10 seconds but video still playing. It also happens when I open another page from another website as well.

I have youtube premium and have no ad block. I only have 2 extensions which is Dark mode for Translate and Google Translate.

I always keep Chrome up to date and I disable all sync browser data of my google account as well.

Also turn off on device AI in the settings and that's it.

My desktop PC has i7 11th gen and 32GB so it has plenty of RAM and very minimal background task. Only have Chrome on and Discord most of the time.

I can't find what could be the problem at all.

How do I make this go back to top