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Arial always show up as bold in my system
Lately (I'm not sure exactly when, but sometime during the last couple of weeks) pages in my browser has looked strange, and that is because the default font (Arial) looks bold all the time.
Here is ...
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Graphical artifacts in Google Chrome on Windows
For the last week or so, I've been getting a weird visual artifact in Chrome. This black square appears, distorting the screen area around it, and moves around a bit. It's fine for a while after a ...
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Chrome bold fonts are very large?
These fonts are so big and ugly. The only thing I can think of that could have caused this is:
The other day some of my desktop icons were the placeholder white page, I used "Windows Shortcut Arrow ...
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Ctrl+Tab not working in any programs
Visual Studio, Sublime Text, Chrome, Firefox, you name it. All the apps with tab-cycling on Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab are no longer working on my Windows PC - that is, Ctrl+Shift+Tab still works, ...
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Changing YouTube playback speed doesn't work on Chrome
Whenever I use YouTube on Google Chrome (Version 37.0.2062.120 m), I'm unable to change the playback speed of the video. Changing the playback speed of the video causes the video to crash and the only ...
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Chrome Not Playing Certain Flash Videos [duplicate]
Why does Chrome not play certain flash videos like the ones on this site?
http://www.welt.de/sport/fussball/bundesliga/fc-bayern-muenchen/article132052455/Neuer-Bayern-Star-Ehrenmann-oder-Luegner....
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Chrome Unicode Displaying Issues
How do I fix Chrome so that it shows unicode characters like 😎 properly?
Here's how it looks like:
Here's how it should look like:
Neither Firefox nor Internet Explorer have this issue. Please ...
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Choppy font rendering on Windows Chrome
So this was supposed to be fixed with Directwrite in Chrome 37, but unfortunately I think I am one of a very few people, if not the only one who it actually backfired on. My fonts were perfectly fine ...
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How can I choose where chrome notifications pop up?
I am running Chrome on Windows 8.1 When I get new notifications, they pop up somewhere in the middle of the screen, instead of in the bottom corner. This is really annoying, as I can't remove them ...
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How to run chrome in app mode without window frame?
I would like to run chrome in app mode without using a windows frame and the title bar?
At the moment I start chrome in this way: chrome.exe --app=http://url.com --app-shell-host-windows-bounds. That ...
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Installed Google Chrome 64 bit, but am I launching the 32 or 64 bit version?
I installed Chrome 64 bit, but am I running the 64 bit version?
I went to Control Panel\System and Security\System to confirm that I'm running an 64 bit version of Windows on an x64 bit processor.
I ...
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Chrome 37 UI got larger and became blurry on 125% DPI [duplicate]
Today I updated to Chrome 37 stable (64-bit, but 32-bit has the same issue).
I am using 125% DPI mode in Windows 8.1, because I need larger fonts everywhere, since my eyes are not so good :)
The ...
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Chrome Incognito Mode not blocked despite modifying registry
Following the instructions here and elsewhere, I've been trying to disable Incognito mode to no avail. I've modified the registry for Windows 8.1 Pro x64 as seen as below and despite that, when I ...
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Audio from VLC will get quiet when focusing other applications
OS: Windows 8.1
I'm noticing that when playing something from VLC (though it happens when playing audio from Chrome) that my sound will pseudo-randomly become quiet.
Chiefly it happens on the 'new ...
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Google Chrome freezes using IPv6
I've got a bit of a problem with Google Chrome.
A few weeks ago I switched to another ISP that offered IPv6. Since then Chrome is randomly freezing when accessing certain websites (freezing as in "not ...
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