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Chromium
Raised as a usability problem by 90 people on Hacker News over 18 years (2009–2026), in 85 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
Every issue, all time, most people first
Browser becomes unusably slow after extended use with many tabsUnreviewed
20092026- Browser becomes a slideshow and slows the system unless tabs are constantly closed2023-08-15
- Chromium feels sluggish to use, and Disney Plus takes almost a minute to load2020-11-20
- Chromium snap package is very slow to use2020-05-03
Tab text too small on high DPI screens and cannot be resizedUnreviewed
20092026- Tabs forced into grid view and bottom bar setting ignored on large screens2026-09-02
- After hours of browsing, tabs shrink to pixel width and can't be navigated2017-11-15
- Interface can't be configured, so oversized tabs and fonts are a constant annoyance2017-01-06
Merged address and search bar makes it unclear if input is URL or searchUnreviewed
20092026- Merged address and search bar makes it unclear whether input is a URL or search term2020-08-21
- Search terms unexpectedly resolve to domains, so searches go to wrong places2017-03-06
- Address bar search doesn't match Firefox's bookmark and history search, showing only top few results2016-01-24
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 50 complaints
- Tabs forced into grid view and bottom bar setting ignored on large screens2026-09-02
- Text in the up-to-date bubbles has low contrast, hard to read2026-05-03
- Website is unusable for red/green colorblind users2026-05-03
- Syncing is a bit of a pain to set up on Chromium2026-03-12
- Middle-click paste-and-search on new tab button silently stopped working after update, no setting found2026-01-09
- Blocking JavaScript per site needs four settings levels and typing domains manually2025-07-24
- Inspector doesn't work with the example, making it hard to debug2025-07-06
- Devtools are more cluttered and more annoying to work with2025-02-28
- Forgetting a whole site takes seven steps or developer tools, with no one-click option2025-02-09
- Autoscroll acceleration curve is awkward, and nested scrolling makes the outer container scroll too2025-01-14
- Typing a local hostname like home.lan searches the web instead of opening it2024-10-24
- Accidentally pasted text gets sent to search engine because URL and search share one box2024-10-24
- Typing internal hostnames or IPs goes to a search page instead of the site2024-10-24
- Autofill inserts saved card names into unrelated form fields and ignores autocomplete=off2024-08-15
- A tab silently fails to connect to a site until it is closed and reopened2024-08-10
- Ends up on a black page with no text or UI elements2023-12-13
- Pruning config to remove subsystems causes linker errors and no clear way to proceed2023-10-23
- Screen-share controls clutter the view and the sharing tooltip is cut off by screen edge2023-08-18
- Browser becomes a slideshow and slows the system unless tabs are constantly closed2023-08-15
- Visited pages can't be found again quickly; must open full History2023-07-10
- Users must manually toggle Wayland support in Chrome and Electron2023-02-26
- Page only scrolls when cursor is over a narrow area, with no visible scrollbar2022-09-28
- Broken scrolling makes the page very frustrating to read2022-09-28
- Page has no scrollbar and scrolls only after clicking the content area2022-09-28
- Persistent "Managed by your organization" notices and banners are excessive and hostile, and hard to dismiss2022-08-24
- Browser zooms oddly into form fields when about to type2021-11-30
- View-source is blocked by a blacklist the web page can control, which is unexpected2021-11-13
- Links from Thunderbird don't open in Chromium snap, so user must copy and paste them2021-09-16
- Back button goes through autoplay history entries instead of skipping to new tab page2021-08-28
- Bare-bones pages like HN take around 15 seconds to load on old hardware2021-07-09
- Accessibility tree view is too noisy to tell where issues are2021-05-21
- Dragging the mouse up or down doesn't select the full URL text2021-02-25
- Had to hunt through and disable many Google features, some via confusing defaults commands2021-02-05
- Chromium feels sluggish to use, and Disney Plus takes almost a minute to load2020-11-20
- Chromium and Electron apps render blurry on fractionally scaled displays2020-11-13
- Browsing is effectively unusable on ARM boards like Jetson and Raspberry Pi2020-09-07
- Dialog font unreadable and default download folder hard to find2020-09-05
- Right-click on video only offers 'Open video in new tab' and the video does not fill available space2020-09-02
- Users type URLs into the omnibar not realising it also searches, so the dual purpose isn't clear2020-08-21
- Searches containing a dot, like dotnet namespaces, get treated as navigation instead of search2020-08-21
- Mistyped URL goes to a Google search page instead of showing an error, confusing the user2020-08-21
- Merged address and search bar makes it unclear whether input is a URL or search term2020-08-21
- Chromium tears when scrolling despite hours of configuration and tweaking2020-06-15
- Chromium snap package is very slow to use2020-05-03
- Network tab is unreliable, missing requests that were actually made2020-04-29
- Uploads and saves fail silently for files on symlinks or other disks, with no error explaining why2020-04-25
- Became very laggy after an apt-get upgrade, forcing a switch to Firefox2019-12-21
- Turning off background phoning-home behaviour is tedious and annoying to do2019-12-18
- Add button overwrites existing custom colours in a non-intuitive, backwards order2019-10-16
- Proposed right-click workaround unusable on mobile devices without mouse buttons2019-10-13