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Help Chrome tabs disappearing
- Thread starter thaKing
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electricpete
Android Expert
1-maybe tabs aredisplaying as separate app. To turn off this behavior
Chrome > Settings > Merge tabs and apps > Off
2-maybe someone using your account. Check devices recently signed into Google account
https://security.google.com/settings/security/activity?pli=1
Chrome > Settings > Merge tabs and apps > Off
2-maybe someone using your account. Check devices recently signed into Google account
https://security.google.com/settings/security/activity?pli=1
thaKing
Android Enthusiast
1 - already off
2 - nothing looked suspicious. There were two Windows machines (the one I'm on and another from last night - was that my laptop, I am unable to tell). If that's not my laptop, how would someone be able to close tabs on my Note 4 from a Windows machine?
thaKing
Android Enthusiast
Just now I was looking at Chrome and saw I had 4 tabs open. When I click on 4 to see the tabs, 3 tabs looked normal. The 4th tab had a title of "New tab", but I could see the top portion of the original page on that tab (it was the tab in the back, so it was mostly covered by the floating 3 tabs in front of it). When I clicked on it, the content disappeared and it was in fact a new tab with google search.
electricpete
Android Expert
I knew there was a "sync open tabs" for chrome so I figured maybe it had that capability (just brainstorming). But looking closer, it just shows your other device open tabs in settings / "recent tabs"
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2591582?hl=en
One clue is the timing. If you used your laptop last night then that's probably it.
I can't recreate that. Two things come to mind:
1 - the new tab button (+) and close tab button (x) are of course at the top at opposite corners. Can't see how you'd hit them both at the same time though so doesn't help.
2 - I can swipe down on my stack of tabs and the ones toward the top/back become more visible. Again that may not help but that's all I've got.
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thaKing
Android Enthusiast
Just in case I've have disabled sync, we'll see.
1 - I'm 99.99999% sure I didn't hit them together.
A better example is I've had a few tabs open (relevant articles, pics, etc) to show at the gym. When I arrive, I open Chrome and all tabs are gone. There is only one tab and it's the New Tab google search. All just disappeared.
2 - Yep, I did that in the example above. I could see the original page on the back tab (or at least as much as you could when you pulled down the front three) and the page showed the original body but the title was New Tab. When I clicked on it, it refreshed to the New Tab.
Frustrating. But thanks for your suggestions.
1 - I'm 99.99999% sure I didn't hit them together.
A better example is I've had a few tabs open (relevant articles, pics, etc) to show at the gym. When I arrive, I open Chrome and all tabs are gone. There is only one tab and it's the New Tab google search. All just disappeared.2 - Yep, I did that in the example above. I could see the original page on the back tab (or at least as much as you could when you pulled down the front three) and the page showed the original body but the title was New Tab. When I clicked on it, it refreshed to the New Tab.
Frustrating. But thanks for your suggestions.
thaKing
Android Enthusiast
After a little more research, here's what I have found. I had two tabs open (easy to recreate if lost) and one incognito tab. If I leave those 3 tabs active, and the incognito tab the visible tab, over time at least one of the 2 regular tabs gets turned into a New Tab. I have to go into History to retrieve the tab that was originally there.
lukaszordon21
Lurker
Did you solve the problem? Do you have any task manager installed or ram cleaner app? Maybe system is cleaning memory and ending chrome task.