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alasarr
alasarr

Reputation: 1605

Google Chrome address bar disappears on resize

With the latest version of Google Chrome (Versión 41.0.2272.101 (64-bit)) running on MacOSX Yosemite, when I resize the address bar I loose the bar and I've to restart Google Chrome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMKfWONS_FI

It's a really bad thing when you've to develop web applications for small devices. Any ideas? Has anyone found a posible workaround?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 6831

Answers (3)

user258081
user258081

Reputation: 321

Google knows about this. I submitted the question on their community forums where there were tons of questions when the little double arrow that allowed you to resize the address bar on Chrome suddenly disappeared. They never answered, not even when I submitted a feedback. I found someone who gave a solution using the chrome://flags settings. It worked and I was able to resize again until recently on another of the never-ending updates they again cancelled the ability. They know about it and refuse to tell us. The next time someone finds how to fix this, I'm starting a file of fixes that Google purposely hides form users with the claim that they are for a better user experience. It's not.

Upvotes: 0

Doml The-Bread
Doml The-Bread

Reputation: 1771

btw i found a solution or at least the problem to this one:

In my case i had too many plugins installed, and when i resized the browser to a minimum the plugins took away all of the space from the addressbar. therefore it got sort of invisible and while resizing the window to a larger screen chrome sort of forgot that it had made the address bar invisible.. so i removed some plugins from the toolbar and since then i haven't had a problem anymore!

Upvotes: 1

ferocesalatino
ferocesalatino

Reputation: 126

There is the official bug thread for this issue:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=8663

Apparently, for some users the following solved the issue:

  1. Open Chrome Settings
  2. Select "Show Advanced Settings"
  3. Scroll down to "System"
  4. Un-check "Use hardware acceleration when available"

[UPDATE]
at the beginning it was working for me.. but not it seemed not working anymore.

Upvotes: 3

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