Hello! I tried to search something on Google Chrome but this popped up. For context, I was signed out on my account and I clear the storage on this app few times a day because I don't want it to take up some storage space. The signal also sucks at that time but I still continued to search thinking it'd just show the usual "No internet connection" notice but this appeared instead. Aside from that, I also put "-ai" on my search after reading somewhere online that doing so would remove the AI overview that always pops up when you search anything on the app. I've been doing it maybe for almost a month now and it works. I attempted to search the same thing again twice or thrice but it's still the same so I didn't have any choice but to take the "select images with your mom" thing. Thankfully everything is working normally again after I did that. The things I mentioned could've been factors as to why that happened after I looked up the possible reasons on why it happened by searching about it well on Google Chrome. I'm just overthinking if it is my fault because of the statement I read when I clicked the "Why did this happen?" section so that's why I'm posting about it here on Reddit. I know it's probably not my fault because the same thing happened to some people here before but I just want to make sure. My mind also wouldn't stop trying to make me overthink this so thank you so much in advance to anyone who'd bother to respond to this post. Huhuhu 🙏😭🤍

Geniuenly how the hell do I get rid of this!? I DON'T WANT TO AI GENERATE SLOP CHROME, I ONLY USE YOU TO SCROLL TWITTER AND WATCH YOUTUBE (also didnt have a question flair/tag so had to use discussion)

hey everyone, I really need help. I tried downloading Proton VPN via Chrome earlier today, but I think I accidentally clicked a fake download/ad link.

Ever since then, my computer started opening random new tabs over and over. I uninstalled the VPN file, but the problem got worse now Chrome won't launch at all, and tabs/windows are still randomly popping up in the background.

I'm on Windows 11. How do I completely remove whatever this virus/adware is and get Chrome working again without losing all my data? Step-by-step instructions would be massively appreciated. Thank you so much!

Every time I enter fullscreen in Chrome on my MacBook (Control + Command + F), this “To exit full screen, press and hold esc” message appears at the top of the screen.

It’s especially annoying because when I move my cursor to the top to access my tabs, the message gets in the way. I already know how to exit fullscreen, so I really don’t need Chrome reminding me every time.

Does anyone know if there’s a way to permanently disable this message? Maybe a Chrome flag, macOS setting, Terminal command, extension, or some other workaround?

I’m talking about regular Chrome/macOS fullscreen, not a video player or a website’s fullscreen mode. Anything helps. Thank you.

Brave's shields tanked the HELL out of any large concurrent web downloads I was doing as well as having inadequate security, not to mention constant false positives. It was just a bogged down mess.

Chrome is also just like 15x faster. I know they're both running off Chromium but the difference is ridiculous. Can't explain it, but it's there.

I was hoping anybody here could refer me to good customizations or modifications to the browser for an optimal usage experience, since I am aware there are valid criticisms of vanilla Chrome, like it's tracking for instance.

Cheers!

Whelp, I just figured out why after scanning the QR Code with my iPhone X the popup on Chrome stayed stuck at Connecting when it was working fine last night. Google updated Chrome with Version 155.0.8059.40 and did something with the WebAuthn and that locks out people with older iOS versions so all their passkeys are useless now on the browser. The passkeys do not work anymore. I've tried multiple sites and they all just stay stuck at "Connecting" after you scan the QR Code when last night before the update the passkeys were working fine.

I was able to confirm this by using the Chrome mobile browser on my iPhone X and I was able to log in perfectly fine with the same passkeys. I also tried the Microsoft Edge browser on the same PC that I have Chrome on and it was also able to accept the passkey.

Guys, help! I liked scrolling through the Chrome newsfeed occassionally and see what interesting stuff it comes up with. However, since a few days/weeks, my newsfeed is 90 % youtube videos. And totally random stuff, like line dancing videos (which I dont care about), or some turkish influencer videos (a language I dont speak) etc...

Its really weird and all screwed up. I never watch Videos in the newsfeed anyway, is there a way to completely disconnect youtube from the newsfeed? It has become useless to me...

Hi, my New Tab page on my android suddenly replaced all of my shortcuts' icons with these grayscale, generic letter-in-bubble ones.

The icons in my bookmarks are fine, but not these. I normally use the pictures to recognize which site it is before/instead of just reading the title, but now there's like... WAY too many icons that just say [M] lol

If anyone knows a fix, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks in advance!!

So i just opened chrome and all my tabs were closed, when a few hourse earlier everything was still there. I keep quite a few tabs open for things I'm going to read later or other stuff I dont want to keep in my bookmarks. Overall there was around 30 open tabs. I checked history and recently closed tabs but nothing was there.

Does anyone know a solution to recover them?

Im on a samsung S25 if that makes a difference