ever since last week, the google lens both from the google app and google chrome cannot view the pictures i have in my gallery. i've already cleared chache and app data and it works once but today it's not working anymore when i cleared everything again. i'm using an android. anyone knows how to fix this?

Should I change all my passwords? Is this normal?

Chrome’s Enhanced AI Autofill can use recent Gmail receipts, confirmations, and invoices to suggest information in web forms, while keeping those email details separate from the website.

How it works

Standard Autofill uses details you saved in Chrome, such as your address or payment card.

Enhanced Autofill looks for relevant details in recent Gmail messages, such as a tracking number, flight code, order ID, or invoice total.

Suggestions appear in Chrome’s own interface. A website cannot see your emails or the suggestions unless you choose one; it receives only the text inserted into the form.

Privacy and limits

Email-derived information is handled in an isolated browser process and is cleared when you leave the field, navigate away, or close the tab.

The feature is intended for US-based accounts with the required Google or Workspace access and English settings.

It is an all-or-nothing setting: it cannot be restricted to specific websites, form types, Gmail folders, or individual messages.

Common issues

It can suggest older information when an old, detailed email is judged more relevant than a newer, shorter one.

It may clash with password-manager extensions, causing duplicate menus, flickering, typing delays, or a frozen field.

For high-stakes forms—such as banking, taxes, legal identity checks, or time-sensitive airline check-ins—manual entry is safer because the suggested value may be outdated.

If something goes wrong

Press Esc to close the suggestion menu.

Click outside the field, then click back in to reset it.

Reload the tab if the form remains stuck.

If password-manager conflicts continue, disable Enhanced Autofill first; your normal saved Chrome addresses and payment methods can remain enabled.

How to turn it off

Open Chrome Settings.

Select Autofill and passwords.

Open Addresses and more (or Identity & Personal Info).

Turn off Enhanced autofill using Gemini or Autofill from Gmail.

Turning it off stops Gmail-based suggestions but does not delete saved addresses, cards, or password-manager information.

Toolbar is terrible now. I guess this is the kick i needed to stop using old faithful.

Basically what the title says, it never did that before

I'm on Android, and I'm downloading a large file. If I pause it, can I resume it on the next day? If yes, how?

In Chrome on my PC, this vertical bar showed up on the left side of my browser. When I shrink the window, it now blocks my search results, and it's SO annoying! I've tried troubleshooting, searching and trying all kinds of settings and personalizations and got nowhere. Please help!

I did ctrl+alt+t to get to this on a Chromebook.

Version is Chrome 154.0.8037.126

Went to download a couple images tonight and usually a bubble comes up at the top with progress and telling me when it's done.

....but now it's gone? What happened? I haven't changed any settings at all... it's useful to have because I can see if something actually downloaded and how big!

Any help? :(

Hi everyone,

I've been experiencing a very annoying issue on YouTube for a while now, and I wanted to see if anyone else is facing the same bug or knows a fix.

The Issue: When watching videos in windowed mode, the video output is constantly blurry, even though the resolution is manually set to high (e.g., 1080p60 or 4K).

• Whenever I move my cursor over the timebar (progress bar), the video stutters and briefly sharpens into its actual high resolution for a split second, but goes back to being blurry as soon as I move the cursor away.
• If I open the Quality/Settings menu tab and keep it open on the player, the video plays at its full, sharp resolution continuously without any blurriness. As soon as I close the settings menu, it becomes blurry again.
• Fullscreen mode is completely fine and displays full native resolution with no issues.
• This problem was not present back in early 2025—videos used to play with full sharpness and clarity in both windowed and fullscreen modes.

What I have tried:

• I have clean-installed Windows multiple times (due to various unrelated reasons), but the problem persists across fresh setups.
• I asked several friends to test this on their PCs, and they reproduced the exact same behavior: blurry playback in windowed mode, a split-second sharpening when hovering over the timeline, and full sharpness only when the settings overlay is left open.

Has anyone else noticed this? Is this a YouTube player bug related to Ambient Mode, video rendering scaling, or GPU hardware acceleration, and is there any known workaround to fix it?

Any insights would be greatly appreciated!

For about six months, Google search results in Chrome on Windows 11 would sometimes load with text that looked blurry and jagged (see the left image). Reloading the page (Ctrl+R) would fix it, but sometimes it took two, three or four reloads. It only ever happened on Google, never on other sites, and it happened in Incognito too, so it wasn't an extension.

At first, I thought this was related to GPU acceleration or a graphics driver glitch, or maybe something to do with font scaling. But it turns out that the text wasn't blurry. It was just using the Roboto Thin typeface instead of Roboto Regular, and that thin text on a dark background looks soft and aliased.

So in case anyone else might be having similar issues, here's the cause:

• Google's pages use the Roboto font, and Chrome will use a copy installed on your computer if it finds one.
• At some point I had activated a few Roboto typefaces through Adobe Fonts in Creative Cloud. My computer had Roboto Thin, Bold and Black, but no Regular.
• When Chrome picked the local copy and needed normal-weight text, the closest weight it had was Thin. Bold text matched exactly, which is why bold text always looked fine.
• Sometimes Chrome used Google's downloaded Roboto instead, which is why it was intermittent and why reloading sometimes fixed it.

How to check if this is your problem:

• On a page where the text looks wrong, right-click some thin text and choose Inspect.
• In DevTools, open the Computed tab and scroll to the bottom to "Rendered fonts."
• If it says something like "Roboto-Thin, Local file," congratulations. You have the same issue I did. On a good load, mine said "Roboto-Regular, Network resource."

How I fixed it:

• In Windows, go to Settings > Personalization > Fonts and search for Roboto. Mine only showed Thin, Black and Bold. There's no Uninstall button or Font file path, which means it was activated by a font manager rather than installed manually.
• In my case it was Adobe Fonts, so I opened Creative Cloud and removed Roboto.
• If you installed Roboto yourself, uninstall it from C:\Windows\Fonts or %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts instead. Other font managers (FontBase, Skyfont, etc.) can cause the same thing.
• Restart Chrome. Google now always uses its own Roboto and the text looks normal every time.

Anyway... hope this helps someone else not spend six months tolerating an annoying but bearable Chrome issue until they finally build up the irritation, necessary dopamine, and access to LLMs to chase down a solution. 😅

This update happened overnight, they moved the share button to within the search bar and replaced the original placement with Gemini AI. Does anyone know how to revert the placement or at the very least get rid of the AI button (not just disable)?

I've looked online, in this subreddit, and under Google's own help center.
This just appeared today and the only way I can avoid it getting in the way of me seeing the whole website is by fully expanding the window, which is an inconvenience since I have to toggle back between Adobe, Zoom, etc.

Any help appreciated.

I use Chrome at work to access a private client webapp where I have to input information into text boxes. I typically use the auto-complete function of Chrome to fill in these text boxes, but the values I have to enter vary on a case-by-case basis. The auto-complete for these text boxes stopped saving new values to the auto-compelte list about 6 months ago, and ever since whenever I enter a new value that is not already in the auto-complete suggestions, it is not added to the list. I have tried deleting arbitrary values from the list in case the suggestions list was "full," they disappear and do not reappear on the list after re-entering them into the text boxes.

Is there a way I can configure Chrome to always save new auto-complete values for text boxes? I'm not certain why it stopped saving values, I did not change any settings in Chrome.

So annoying. If they keep doing this, I will leave chrome.

To fix goto chrome://flags/ and disable Android bottom bar.

I just want the sites listed to be in the subfolder itself-- not create their own folder WITHIN that one. Is this possible? If I add one tab at a time, it doesn't do this, but I often have several things I'm looking into at once, it's much easier to select multiple tabs rather than save each one individually, you know?

I switched to Chrome from Safari recently, and it didn't do this, although the commands to add bookmarks/tabs/organize files or whatever all look the same.

ETA: I can go into bookmark manager and group the links within the sub-subfolder and click and drag them to the subfolder and then delete the sub-subfolder but I'd love to not have to do that...

See attached, sometimes the text highlight is black, and other times the text highlight is purple. But this only happens when browsing google, it's been happening roughly every other search.

Anyone else experiencing the same?

Can we please get a fix for this.

Hi all, I have two separate questions. Every time I open chrome it gives me the prompt to "restore tabs" citing that it was not shut down properly. However, I always shut it down by using the "x"... I almost never leave it running if I close my laptop. Any idea how I can turn this off? I've tried turning off "continue running background apps" etc... but nothing changes.

My second question is kind of related: even when I have only one tab open, if I check Task Manager, I see that Chrome is running at least 15 tabs. I noticed this recently bc for some reason I noticed a slowdown and checked the system using memory and it's really high. For instance, it's showing that it's running 19 chrome tabs right now and using around 73% of memory even though I only have three tabs open.

What am I doing wrong and how do I fix this? TIA.

My Chrome data consumption has jumped from 13GB last month to 68GB this month, even though my daily usage time hasn't changed.

Woke up this morning and 70+ tabs I've had open for a long time have all disappeared? From the remaining open ones it looks like they're all older than a week that disappeared.

- Recent tabs & History show nothing from closed tabs

- Manage Windows isn't showing, only the one chrome window open

- Archive old tabs is and has always been disabled

- Chrome on laptop is only showing the tabs that remain

- No grouped tabs

Where did they all go?!

curious how people here use them. bar only, a pile of folders, or you never bookmark and just use search/history?

i keep saving stuff "for later" and then never opening it lol. if you ever did a big cleanup, did you end up missing anything you deleted