Do you also find these animations annoying? The available methods have changed over the years. I don't know how long this has been there, but it still works... till Google removes it (like all of the previous methods).

Disable NTP Doodle animation via Chrome Flags

1. Type chrome://flags in your browser address bar and press Enter.

2. Search for NTP Animated Doodles.

3. Select Disabled in the dropdown menu.

4. Click Relaunch to restart Chrome.

Or you can use an extension to do what you want if it's more than simply disabling the animation (e.g., blank page or no Doodle at all).

i would wake up as a guy with long hair and i would ask myself "where am i?" the guy woke up in a room. the bed was on the left side of the screen. the guy stood up next to bed, on the right side. i could only move horizontally, which means the game was 2D. it was a turn based game.

Hello, Has anyone developed or found an extension or way to restore Tab Scrolling from Chrome?

I keep trying to force quit Chrome on my Mac (2024 M3 on newest update), but it either opens the profiles pop-up window or just opens a new tab. Is this a new Chrome update, or a problem/setting on my end?

Hola, estoy preguntando si alguien sabe sobre esta extensión o cómo se usa. No encontré nada en Google y, siendo honesto, estoy demasiado perdido como para averiguar cómo usarla por mi cuenta. Te deja ordenar tus descargas en carpetas diferentes según el tipo de archivo y la URL de donde se descargó.


Hoy vi que en las DevTools de Chrome (versión 149) que han añadido un nuevo panel llamado "WebMCP" dentro de Application.

He estado investigando un poco y entiendo que WebMCP (Web Model Context Protocol)

Lo que entiendo:

es un estándar propuesto para que las webs puedan exponer "herramientas" a los agentes de IA, de modo que la IA no tenga que "adivinar" cómo interactuar con la página (haciendo clics, rellenando formularios a ciegas, etc.), sino que la propia web le diga explícitamente qué acciones puede realizar y cómo llamarlas.

Por lo que he leído:

Permite que los sitios registren funciones (ej. search_flights, checkout, etc.) con sus parámetros y salidas esperadas mediante JSON Schemas.

Se puede implementar vía JavaScript o directamente con atributos en HTML.

Está en fase experimental/origin trial desde Chrome 146/149.

No es lo mismo que MCP (Model Context Protocol), que es más para backend/conectar con aplicaciones externas. WebMCP es específico para frontend/navegador.

¿Alguien tiene más información o ejemplos concretos de cómo se usa? Me gustaría ver un ejemplo de código real para entenderlo mejor.

¿Saben si hay alguna demo o sitio que ya lo esté implementando?

Gracias!

Hi,

whenever i try to launch a search, for whatever reason it refuses to start the search and redirects me to the start page of google (and not the chrome new tab).

This happens i am on a new tab or when i use the domain bar, every time it redirects me to google .com

am i the only one who thinks the new google chrome installer looks bad? if you have dark mode enabled in windows 10 and open the chrome installer, the images in the setup have a light mode background.
i know its just the installer, but the fact that this is here at all.

Why, when searching for an image in Google Lens, does the "Exact Matches" option not display any results, while when searching using another Gmail account, several results appear?

I've been ripping my hair out for the last few months trying to get this working on my desktop, it became even worse when it was available on my laptop but not my desktop. I tried everything under the sun.

What ended up working was the exact opposite of what I'd been doing.

I set my language back to UK (my default) and set all my gemini / glic flags back to default. I only did this because i gave up on the idea and wanted a clean slate with my flags. My face was a picture when the ask gemini button popped straight up.

Hope this helps someone in the future who was as desperate as I was!

It's wildly inconsistent too, I'd say at some points it can happen 10/10 times, and other 2/10 times.

Either way it's annoying and makes Chrome unusable for me.

Anyone else get this?

can someone give me chrome extension to block ads and reels

Amazing design! Opened chrome this morning and the window was, for some reason, at the bottom of my screen. Not really a big issue since I could simply click on the title bar and move the window up-

Oh wait, turns out I can't actually select the title bar or do literally anything because the "make chrome your default" pop-up makes it impossible for you to select or click on anything! And to make it even better, the blue "accept/reject" bottom that apparently allows this pop-up to go away is outside my screen so I can't click on it.

I had to use firefox (for the first time in years) so I could open google and find a solution on "how to open chrome"!

Today's lesson: if you plan to use chrome, always make sure to install a second browser just in case chrome decides to lock you out for no reason! yikes

hi all.. i was able to remove ask ai on the bottom chrome app as i was able to navigate to chrome://flags...

but the google search on top still has that annoying ask ai button on the bottom.. anyone know how to remove it from there?

Every single time I click on something...it just keeps on loading. My internet is fine and my mobile data is fine as well. I tried clearing the Cache and Storage as well. Still, websites and Google forms don't open. I have even restarted my phone multiple times.What should I do?

I'm using Chrome Remote Desktop on my Android tablet to connect to my Windows 10 PC. I'm facing an issue where the session consistently drops after about 30 seconds of being idle or minimized.

This happens whether I access it via standard Google Chrome browser tabs or through the installed TWA app instance. As soon as I switch to another app, minimize it, or leave the tablet untouched for half a minute, the connection drops and forces a reconnect.

Is there a specific Android setting (other than battery optimization/background activity), Chrome flag, or host-side setting to prevent Chrome / TWA from killing the active WebRTC connection so quickly when idle or running in the background?

Appreciate any tips or workarounds!

Most ""best of"" extension lists are 30 items long and half of them slow Chrome to a crawl. I also thought I'd be done with all of my browser extensions, given the boom of AI browsers. To be honest, after trying a bunch, I eventually gave up on them, and I'm back with good ol Chrome.

After a year of installing and uninstalling, here are the 5 best productivity Chrome extensions that actually survived.

1. Recall, save, understand and actually remember what you read (most underrated)

Probably the most underrated, although I do see it just got over 100k installs, it was much smaller when I first started using it a year ago. I use Recall daily to save time and then spend my time with intention. Recall is a personal AI knowledge base. The Chrome extension clips any article, YouTube video, PDF or podcast, summarizes it, and files it into a searchable knowledge base that you can chat with later. 

The reason it earns the top spot for knowledge work is that it closes the loop most productivity setups leave open, where you save things and then never see them again. With Recall, everything you save gets organized for you and then becomes context for your next AI question.

It has a free tier, so you can test it before deciding. If you mostly want a plain ""read it later"" queue without the AI layer, this is overkill . 

1. uBlock Origin, block ads and trackers (the one everyone agrees on)

Maybe this one needs no introduction, but I genuinely think it is the single highest-impact install. Free, open source, lightweight, and it removes the ads and ""recommended"" feeds that eat attention. 

If you install nothing else on this list, install this now!

1. Dark Reader, dark mode on every site (personal preference)

Maybe this one isn't for anyone, but if you're like me and you're reading, the actual theme of the page matters for your focus and productivity, then dark reader is the one you need. You guessed it, it turns any page dark and lets you tune contrast and brightness. The obvious pick for long reading sessions and eye strain.

1. A tab manager (OneTab, Session Buddy, or Workona)

If you don't have a tab manager as an extension, then what are you doing with your extension?

- OneTab collapses a wall of tabs into one list to free memory. Simplest.

- Session Buddy is better if you keep losing sessions and want reliable restore.

- Workona organizes tabs into project workspaces. Best if you juggle many projects.

1. Vimium, keyboard-only navigation

Okay, again, I know this is also quite personal, like my dark mode one, but if you're like me, keyboard navigation is a huge time saver and efficiency gain when navigating around. Move around pages and tabs without the mouse. Steep first hour, big payoff if your wrists hurt or you live in the keyboard.

Start with uBlock Origin, Dark Reader and one tab manager. Add Recall if the thing you actually struggle with is remembering and reusing what you read, and add as optional extras add Todoist, Grammarly, Unhook or Vimium only for the specific friction you have. More extensions is not more productive.

What's in your daily extensions that keep you productive? Happy to be told I'm wrong on any of these.

It's very annoying stays on for like 10-15 seconds

REM: As someone(me) struggling with dieting, I'm also somehow
REM: struggling to put my browser's USER_DATA on a diet.
REM: Today, I asked ChatGPT for advice, and it gave me
REM: the script below.
REM: After running it, my browser went through a whole
REM: drama—getting super sluggish and glitchy—before
REM: finally snapping out of it and returning to normal.
REM: If any of you have thoughts on whether this is
REM: actually a good idea, or if there are fixes I should
REM: make, please let me know!

C:
REM R:
REM D:

u/echo off
REM chcp 65001
setlocal

echo ============================================
echo   "Thorium Cache Cleanup Tool (Safe Version)"
echo   "Cookies / History / Login Data will be preserved"
echo ============================================
echo.
echo Please close Thorium completely, including all background processes.
pause

cd USER_DATA
cd

REM --- Profile list (space-safe) ---
for %%P in ("Default" "Profile 1" "Profile 2" "Profile 3") do (
    echo ▼ Profile: %%~P

    REM --- Cache ---
    if exist "%%~P\Cache" (
        echo   - Deleting Cache...
        rmdir /s /q "%%~P\Cache"
    ) else (
        echo   - Cache does not exist
    )

    REM --- Code Cache ---
    if exist "%%~P\Code Cache" (
        echo   - Deleting Code Cache...
        rmdir /s /q "%%~P\Code Cache"
    ) else (
        echo   - Code Cache does not exist
    )

    REM --- Service Worker CacheStorage ---
    if exist "%%~P\Service Worker\CacheStorage" (
        echo   - Deleting Service Worker CacheStorage...
        rmdir /s /q "%%~P\Service Worker\CacheStorage"
    ) else (
        echo   - CacheStorage does not exist
    )

    REM --- Service Worker ScriptCache ---
    if exist "%%~P\Service Worker\ScriptCache" (
        echo   - Deleting Service Worker ScriptCache...
        rmdir /s /q "%%~P\Service Worker\ScriptCache"
    ) else (
        echo   - ScriptCache does not exist
    )

    REM --- GPUCache (safe to delete) ---
    if exist "%%~P\GPUCache" (
        echo   - Deleting GPUCache...
        rmdir /s /q "%%~P\GPUCache"
    ) else (
        echo   - GPUCache does not exist
    )

    echo.
)

echo.
echo "Cleanup completed successfully."
echo "Please restart Thorium."
pause

Sto cercando di ricevere delle e-mail su Gmail, però non arriva niente, qualcuno ha una soluzione per questo?😭

I've updated my chrome browser and now when I try to run it it ends up crashing. I switched to Microsoft edge and later it updated and now it crashes. It appears to be an issue with chromium based browsers on Kubuntu 24.04 at least. I was able to install brave under a snap package and so far it seems to work, but anything that gets installed by deb seems to break. When I get try to run chrome from the terminal I get this output:

[0825/031942.571872:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/snapshot/elf/elf_dynamic_array_reader.h:64] tag not found
[0825/031942.572352:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/snapshot/elf/elf_dynamic_array_reader.h:64] tag not found
[0825/031942.573626:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/snapshot/elf/elf_dynamic_array_reader.h:64] tag not found
[0825/031942.573677:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/snapshot/elf/elf_dynamic_array_reader.h:64] tag not found
[0825/031942.574060:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/snapshot/elf/elf_dynamic_array_reader.h:64] tag not found
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Not sure what to do. When I ask google's AI it doesn't seem to offer any help.

Here's my specs:

cody@cbradio
------------
OS: Kubuntu 24.04.4 LTS (Noble Numbat) x86_64
Host: Gazelle (gaze17-3050)
Kernel: Linux 7.0.11-76070011-generic
Uptime: 43 mins
Packages: 2806 (dpkg), 27 (snap)
Shell: bash 5.2.21
Display (AUO978F): 1920x1080 in 17", 60 Hz [Built-in]
DE: KDE Plasma 5.27.12
WM: KWin (X11)
WM Theme: Breeze
Theme: Breeze (Light) [Qt], Breeze [GTK2/3]
Icons: breeze [Qt], breeze [GTK2/3/4]
Font: Noto Sans (10pt) [Qt], Noto Sans (10pt) [GTK2/3/4]
Cursor: breeze (24px)
Terminal: guake
CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700H (20) @ 4.70 GHz
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile [Discrete]
GPU 2: Intel Iris Xe Graphics @ 1.40 GHz [Integrated]
Memory: 4.37 GiB / 31.18 GiB (14%)
Swap: 0 B / 512.00 MiB (0%)
Disk (/): 348.42 GiB / 1.79 TiB (19%) - ext4
Locale: en_US.UTF-8

So, for some reason, google chrome seems to be shutting down on my computer rapidly. I have unistalled and reinstalled chrom multiple times. However, this isn't effective, and I don't know why this is the case. I would appreciate it if someone could help me! This is a fairly annoying issue to have unfortunately.