This new feature has rolled out officially as of today, ending its beta testing period. Fortunately, Google's got a new button for the Chrome desktop browser that lets you pause (and play) music and videos from the tab you're currently in, without making you go through the nightmare of finding the culprit first. You're driving yourself crazy clicking around to find out which one it is, and now you're starting to get mad. We've all been there - you've got 20 tabs open, and one of them seems to be playing music or rolling a video. So give it a whirl.Pause and play music using Google Chrome. It may not be gone for good, but it should go away every time you do the trick.
The answer was staring up at you from your keyboard the whole time: just press F11 to enter Chrome’s full-screen mode. Repeat to exit, and voila: the black bar should vanish. Several solutions including turning off hardware acceleration, running Chrome cleanup, reinstalling Chrome and creating a new user have been suggested with mixed results.īut there does seem to be one solution that works for everybody… How to fix the black bar Google Chrome bug That likely points to some drivers misbehaving, or a cocktail of software and hardware not playing nice, especially as the only reported OS that appears to be affected is Microsoft’s Windows 10.Įven with that pointer, the people on Google’s help forum appear to be well and truly flummoxed.
The more people are served, the more likely the problem is to crop up.Īll the same, users have reported a similar issue in Firefox and video app VLC too. While the problem isn’t exclusive to Chrome, the vast majority of complaints concern it – though that could be to do with Google’s browser trouncing the opposition in terms of market share. You’re not alone: the irritating bug has been reported on and off on the Chrome help forum since late April ( via gHacks), and there’s still no real understanding of what’s causing it. Are you struggling to read this thanks to being distracted by an ugly black bar at the bottom of your Google Chrome window?
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