Chrome's Breaking and Entering
ingve
25 points
4 comments
July 24, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
CivBase
Whenever I see posts like this I'm always surprised to see these people are still using Chrome. I agree it's another user hostile move by Chrome, but if this is a big deal to you then how have you tolerated Chrome up until now? Maybe it's a work requirement.
skybrian
This didn't happen for me, apparently because I already had "Show Gemini in Chrome in Mac menu bar and turn on keyboard shortcut" disabled.