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Just today, I stopped seeing the title bar for Google Chrome windows. enter image description here

I'm quite convinced I saw it in the morning as I always use it to drag my windows between screens. Any idea what setting should I check to change this? I thought there would be a setting for this, but I can't see anything like that: enter image description hereenter image description here

Any idea how to get my title bar back, please?

  • Google Chrome Version 100.0.4896.127 (Official Build) (64-bit)
  • Windows 10 Pro
  • Chrome re-install didn't help, and it happens on two different Windows accounts.
yo'
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As far as I remember, Chrome never had a title bar.

There was once an option for using the operating system title, called, appropriately, "Use system title bars and borders", but Chrome 94 broke it:

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Users then found a workaround, by in chrome://flags setting the option of use-ozone-platform to disabled.

However, even this option has now disappeared. Chrome is now imposing its minimalist display, and there doesn't currently seem a way to force it.

To display the page title in another way, you could use the open-source Show Title Tag extension:

Shows title in top of the page, since you cant read the title in the small tabs. Created by Martin Dalgaard

This plugin will show the full page title in the bottom of the page, so you can see the full title. Nice small tool for SEO guys and everyone using Chrome.

You can move the bar to each corner so it's never obstructing your website. You can also hide it on pages where you don't want it.

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harrymc
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Sorry to say bit it's been like that for as long as I can remember. You might be experiencing the "Mandela Effect".

If you have too many tabs open then this area seems to be reserved deadspace for dragging the window.

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If anything, there used to be thicker deadspace above the tabs but I seem to recall that upon full-screening the deadspace would be minimal.

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MonkeyZeus
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I have spent some time looking at both Chrome and Chromium Edge in Windows 10 and 11.

What you see (Tabs with a narrow (very narrow) bar across the top is normal behavior for both Chrome and Edge and has been for several revisions (and even perhaps for a long time).

It is just what we have had and have now.

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Closest you can probably get in Microsoft Edge is the vertical tab mode, which can be enabled by right clicking on the title bar and selecting 'turn on vertical tabs':

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David Mulder
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I was so annoyed by lack of title bar that ended up creating chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-missing-titlebar/kiffbboghglcokkdoppgbpogebioknck

Enjoy!

me76
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