Removing the Ask Toolbar from Google Chrome. Click the Chrome menu button on the browser toolbar, select “Tools” and then click on “Extensions.”. Select the “Extensions” tab. Remove the Ask Toolbar by clicking the small trash beside it.

1. Get Rid Of Most Visited Chrome In Windows 7

The Google Chrome web browser comes with options to launch sites in borderless windows to maximize the display space for these websites.

The default version of Google Chrome displays website content and interface elements. Interface elements are the address bar and toolbar icons, and the tab bar. Chrome includes no options to display a sidebar or status bar, or any other toolbar.

You may configure specific websites to open in a borderless window when opened in Chrome. This can be useful to maximize screen estate. Chrome supports several options to display sites in an exclusive window: you may run Chrome using the --kiosk parameter to get rid of all browser chrome elements and display only the site in question on the screen. Another option that you have is to run Chrome with the -app parameter instead to only display a title bar but no address bar or tab bar.

Another difference between kiosk and app is that the former runs in full screen mode while the latter in window mode.

Kiosk Mode

You may use the --kiosk parameter to run specific sites in kiosk mode using Chrome. Kiosk mode is a fullscreen mode that displays no browser chrome; no address bar, no title bar and no tab bar. There are no buttons to close the Chrome window which means that you need to use other means such as Alt-F4 to close the browser window.

To use Chrome in Kiosk mode, run the browser with the parameter --kiosk SiteURL, e.g. --kiosk https://www.ghacks.net/. You may add the parameter to a shortcut permanently to always open the site in question in kiosk mode when executed.

The following instructions are for Windows:

1. Right-click on the Chrome shortcut in the taskbar, right-click on Google Chrome again when the menu pops up, and select properties from the second menu that opens.
2. Append --kiosk https://www.ghacks.net/ to the target field. Make sure there is a space between the existing target value and the new --kiosk value.
3. Click on ok.

Whenever you execute the shortcut now, Chrome opens the selected site in Kiosk mode.

App Mode

App mode is different from Kiosk mode: a title bar is displayed in the mode, and the site in question is displayed as a window that you may resize. To create an app version of a site in Chrome do the following:

1. Load the site in question in Google Chrome.
2. Select Menu > More Tools > Add to Desktop.
3. Type a name for the shortcut.
4. Check the 'open as window' box.
5. Click on Add.

Chrome adds a shortcut to the desktop that uses the --app parameter to launch the selected site in a window. Only the title bar and window controls are displayed, the address bar and tab bar are not displayed.

I don't know how widespread the issue is but user reports on Google's official Google Chrome Help forum indicate that some Chrome users see a black bar at the bottom of the screen when using Google Chrome.

The issue was first reported on April 25 by a user who wrote 'When in Chrome, there is a black horizontal bar across the bottom of the screen that I can't get rid of'.

The bar sits at the bottom of the browser user interface and hides certain information that Chrome displays there. Any content that gets downloaded is displayed in the area and the black bar overshadows it so that it cannot be interacted with according to the user.

The issue has been ongoing with recent Chrome Stable releases affected by it. Google Community Specialists suggested a number of things including running in Incognito Mode, creating a new user, running the Chrome Cleanup Tool, running a virus scan, or even reinstalling Chrome, but none fixed the issue according to users affected by it.

Some users reported that disabling hardware acceleration helped fix the issue but this was not the case for everyone who experienced it and the issue came back at least once for a user.

You can try disabling hardware acceleration by opening chrome://settings/ in the Chrome address bar, scrolling down and clicking on advanced, and toggling 'Use hardware acceleration when available' to off under the System category a bit further down the page.

Users could try and install driver updates for the video card if available.

There is a workaround that helps users 100% of the time, however. You can get rid of the black bar for the session by entering fullscreen mode and exiting it again. Just tap on F11 to enter Chrome's fullscreen mode and F11 again to exit it.

If you experienced a black bar in Chrome it should be gone by the time Chrome returns to normal display mode.

It is interesting to note that the issue appears to affect other applications such as VLC or Firefox as well as some users reported that. Not all users revealed the operating system used on the machines they experienced the issue but those who did ran Windows 10 systems.

Since Chrome is not the only program affected, it is likely that the issue is either related to display drivers (a combination of hardware and drivers), or a Windows-specific issue as no user on Linux or Mac has reported the issue yet.

Update: Another solution has been found that you may want to give a try if the system has an Intel HD Graphics adapter. Right-click on the Intel HD Graphics icon and select Display. Choose the Scale Full Screen option and make sure Override Application Settings is checked.

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