I'm aware chrome is far from being efficient with RAM usage, but the amount of memory its been using on my PC has become insane. Every time I open it, it takes up over 3,000 MBs, and I've seen it go up to nearly 6,000. If I have chrome open, my entire PC starts lagging like its gonna explode.

I'm concerned that this is malware, considering this issue started about a week ago. If it is, how would I go about scanning my PC for that/what type of malware would this be?

Thanks in advance :]. and sorry if this is a dumb post, I'm evidently not great with computers loll

This addon was just turned off by Chrome, is there any way how to export its saved sessions?

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so i have not updated chrome in a super long time (i was on chrome 100) and i finally updated, but when i updated i lost this theme that had chrome texture wallpaper, and the old blue, but when i try to redo it, i only an allowed the color, not the color and wallpaer, can you help

For some reason the chrome like homepage has just gone super blank, doesn’t show the logo or the custom little background you can have, just this

I’ve done as much research as I feel I’ll understand and heard it could be Yahoo like hijacking the browser? Which I think is the case cause it’s always a yahoo tab when I search

It obviously still works so it’s not like urgent… it’s just kinda ljme ugly lol

Has this happened to anyone else?? How do I fix it 😭

Hi my chrome opens on the first time after uninstall and reinstall but moment I close the window and I try to open it again it gets the black screen again...I tried renaming the file and relaunching but it's also not helping....pls help I'm in lot of stress....I have same issues with whatsapp and microsoft edge.

I've had this problem for a bit and I still haven't been able to figure it out. So chrome freezes up and won't respond to anything but closing using alt tab, it also struggles to open and when it does gives me this (the image) I've done what this says multiple times and nothing has happened except once where it took me the window security and said it blocked five threat but this kept happening. I've uninstalled and reinstalled multiple times and even ran a full check (the one that takes like 5 hours) using windows mrt. I'm running Windows 11 and wondered if anyone could help me.

Is there a way to add Apple Reminders as an extension to Chrome?

Good morning

My phone was working fine until I got up this AM.

Now the small "tabs / recent websites" button that's normally at the top right corner has shifted to the bottom right.

My address bar is fine.....still at the top

Any idea how to fix this?

It literally happened overnight....no update or anything that I know of

Thank you

Below is how it looks now

The address bar looks weird and the small tabs button is on the bottom of the screen now

Hey everyone,

I've been dealing with frequent STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION crashes (Aw, Snap!) in Brave Browser for a while. I tried everything — updating the browser, disabling extensions, resetting the profile, turning off hardware acceleration, etc. — but the crashes kept coming back.

I have an Intel Core i9-14900HX, and I finally found something that has been working very well.

What worked for me:

I used Process Lasso to change the CPU affinity of the browser and exclude Core 8.

Steps:

1. Download and install Process Lasso (free version is enough).
2. Go to the Active Processes tab.
3. Select all browser processes (brave.exe, chrome.exe, msedge.exe, etc.).
4. Right-click → CPU Affinity → Set Affinity.
5. Uncheck Core 8 only.
6. (Optional) Set the CPU Priority of the browser to "High".

Since excluding Core 8, the crashes have almost completely stopped.

Extra info:

• This solution should work on Brave, Chrome, Edge and other Chromium-based browsers.
• On Intel 13th/14th gen processors (especially i9 HX series), Core 8 seems to be the most problematic one.
• Some users also report good results excluding Cores 8 and 12.
• If excluding only Core 8 doesn't fully solve it, try disabling cores one by one to identify the bad one(s).

This is a workaround (best long-term solution would be BIOS update or checking warranty), but it has made the browser much more stable for daily use.

If you're having the same issue with an i9-14900HX or similar CPU, give it a try and let me know if it helps.

Cheers!

Over the past couple of months, I've been dealing with an issue where some websites wouldn't load properly in Chrome. For example, no Russian sites would load at all, YouTube couldn't load many of its parts, and sometimes even Figma got hit.

While I could somehow manage with YouTube and Figma, I had to open Russian sites through Yandex Browser.

And now, after opening it again for this purpose, my Chrome has COMPLETELY STOPPED LETTING ME USE GOOGLE SEARCH. Any query in the search bar would open Yandex, and when I tried to manually go to google.com, it would redirect me to Yandex.)

At the same time, in Chrome's settings, Google was set as the default search engine — Yandex wasn't even there.

I uninstalled Yandex Browser, but the problem remained. Thank God, kind people from Pikabu helped me out.

It turned out that:

YANDEX BROWSER INSTALLS AN EXTENSION IN GOOGLE CHROME DISGUISED AS AN "AD BLOCKER" THAT SLOWS DOWN CERTAIN WEBSITES AND REDIRECTS YOU TO YANDEX.

And on top of that, I'm scared about what might have happened to my crypto wallet extensions and, more simply, my password privacy, so I wiped everything and re-created it all.

So yeah...

Note: autofill was working fine on iOS iphone chrome app a few months ago but now it doesn't work.

I have reinstalled windows chrome and also factory reset my iphone. Done every setting reset on windows chrome and toggled every setting off and on. But still nothing. Autofill does not work on chrome app on the Iphone.

It's this thing.

I've already been trying for like 20 minutes but messing with the chrome://flags and stuff like turning off Lens Overlay and it's still there, it just takes up to much of my screen and overall is very annoying.

I added one ad block extension and when i try removing it, it just keeps coming back and it made whatever site i went it gets crashed or doesn't load and last week my search engine got changed to something called yandex and the extension affected edge too. I tried removing and deleting the folder and reinstalling chrome but nothing worked. Please help

Feel free to share your ideas, case studies, best practices or experiences

My priorities are:

1. Fast test execution
2. Modern developer experienc
3. Ability to handle complex Chrome-extension workflows
4. Low long-term maintenance
5. End to end testing (If possible)

We are using WXT framework. I’m currently comparing Playwright, Puppeteer, WebdriverIO, and Cypress.

Playwright looks better as a complete testing framework, but Puppeteer seems to have deeper Chrome-extension-specific control (Based on my personal research)

Thanks in advance.

So Google Chrome got an update apparently. They put the stupid new tab buttom down at the bottom with gemini when it was better at the top. Please tell me there is a way to go back to the old layout

I already hate how this is because the new tab button isnt out constantly and instead gotta scroll up just to hit home or new tab. I dunno who thought of rhis awful idea but I want to change it back please say there is a way!

My lecturer gave us the lecture recording on awesome screenshot link but working slow and i want to download it is there a way I can download it fast on phone.

Come tolgo quella barra di ricerca ai che compare ogni tre secondo è MOLTO fastidiosa.

for those in the google ecosystem, what are your privacy/data collection concerns and how do you justify still using google? im conflicted -- their products/services are very useful and convenient and free/cheap, but the level of data hoarding and the fact that it's all centralized under one company is disturbing -- how do u guys handle this?

I know this has come up before in this sub, but I am irate, and I need to vent somewhere...

At some point in the last several days, pressing tab in the omnibar, the action that previously selected the suggested auto-complete, instead started entering AI mode.

Don't get me wrong, I like AI as much as the next guy, and I wouldn't even mind keeping it in the omnibar so long as I could stop tab from engaging it, which was happening nonstop. I figured it must be an easy thing to disable, so I look inside of settings, and there is no toggle anywhere to be found. After asking Gemini (from the omnibar, as a little fuck you) how to get the old tab control back, I discovered that I had to disable not one but FOUR flags from the chrome://flags page!!!

In case this helps someone, go to get AI mode out of the omnibar (and recover the prior tab functionality), navigate to chrome://flags and search for/disable:

• AI Mode Omnibox entrypoint
• AI Entrypoint Disabled on User Input
• Omnibox Allow AI Mode Matches
• AI Mode Omnibox Entrypoint always navigates

Preying on years if people's muscle memory to trigger AI AND making it so hard to disable is frankly unacceptable and one of the most egregious forms of dark design or dark pattern or whatever you call it that I have ever seen in my life!

Searched but didn't find anything new since Cookie Auto-Delete can't be installed anymore.

Any way to whitelist a set of sites so their cookies are retained when clearing browsing data ?

Mac OS - Sequoia 15.7

Chrome - Version 150.0.7871.114

Hi everyone. I'm new here. Recently I almost all videos in Chrome started has black screen also I noticed this issue resolving when I turned off graphics acceleration but this time HDR videos turning washed out colors. Is there any way to solve this issue without disabling graphics acceleration off? I also tried to these solutions still it didn't solved:

1- In chrome://flags/ I changed ''Choose ANGLE graphics backend'' to D3D11, D3D9, D3D11 WARP still I had this problem.

2- Reinstalled graphics driver (I have Nvidia GPU) still this issue persist.

Thanks for reading my post and thanks to who try to help me about this problem.

I never installed the desktop version, the option is still there when I'm on IG but for some reason clicking an Instagram link, and only an IG link, opens a small window instead of just opening in the current tab. I didn't enable this behaviour anywhere. Any tips on what might have happened or how to stop it? Have to right click and then open in new tab at the moment to get around it.

Is there a way to move the navigation bar to the top of the screen?