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How do I fix skipping and stuttering sound in Google Chrome on Windows 8.1?

When I try to play Pandora, it skips and stutters. I have 8 cores and 32GB, no reason to stutter. I tried the steps in this answer, installed Flash player directly from Adobe and restarted the browser,...
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How to make Google Chrome behave normaly again

I'm using Windows 8 and I recently updated chrome as well as my entire system. Now whenever I click on the chrome Icon pinned to my taskbar instead of popping up a single window that is floating in ...
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What does this Chrome icon mean?

Since today my Chrome browser has a pizza slice on its icon on the taskbar. I just restarted my PC without exiting Chrome. So its been forced to quit by the Windows system. After the restart I had to ...
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Google Chrome - doing very abnormal on boot to go to kiosk mode

I am launching Google chrome via regedit on system boot (Windows 8.1 64-bit). chrome.exe --kiosk <url> Google Chrome is latest version up-to date and windows operating system is also up-to ...
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Chrome doesn't do anything when trying to update

My Chrome bar has been nagging at me for a week now, wanting me to update to the latest version of Chrome. If I click the hotdog menu (or is it hamburger menu?) and hit the Update Google Chrome button,...
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Go to Google Chrome shortcut in Windows 8

I have Windows 8.1. Because of the nature of my work, I have several application windows open at any given point in time. I know that in order to cycle between various application windows, one may use ...
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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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How to start Chrome in Desktop or Windows 8 mode based on where I start it from?

Is there a way to choose to start Chrome web browser either in classic desktop or metro mode in Windows 8.1? I know how to change it while the app is running, also if I exit the app in metro and start ...
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How to restore deleted favorites in chrome on windows 8?

A friend of me has a windows 8 laptop and Google Chrome as browser. She has deleted its favorites. I know a file exists on Windows 7 in AppData : bookmarks.bak I looked on a Windows 8 laptop but i've ...
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Windows 8 Chrome DNS issue

Sometimes when I want to visit random site I get "The server at www.something.here can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed" which looks pretty standard. When I go to "chrome://net-internals/#dns"...
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How can I launch Chrome in kiosk mode in a Windows 8.1 kiosk (assigned access) account?

We are trying to set up a web application in a kiosk mode using Chrome in Windows 8.1. I have been able to create an "assigned access" account (the new Windows 8.1 kiosk feature) that will log in and ...
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Chrome does not re-draw properly on Windows 8

There are a lot of problems with Chrome (24.0.1312.14 beta || But all this happened before update also) on Windows 8. Problems and explanations are listed below: Google Chrome re-draw time: When I ...
Akshat Mittal's user avatar