Question Please help! Followed steps to remove volume popup overlay in Chrome and now Chrome is trashed

[Muse]

I followed the simple steps in this 2:32 YT video to disable the popup in Chrome.

Seemed an innocuous enough thing to do, but then all my Chrome Windows are black, there's no info. I reboot and Chrome is open but no windows work. Do I need to uninstall Chrome??? I'm using Edge right now, there's zero functionality in Chrome.

The reason I want to remove the popup overlay (actually just the big right side of the popup that you see an X through above) is that the whole popup including that big right side persists, covering a significant part of the screen and doesn't disappear no matter what AFAIK for something like 15 seconds, maybe more.

The video has you open a new tab in Chrome and type this in the URL bar: Chrome://flags and scroll down to Hardware Media control or something like that and change the setting from Default to Disabled and then click the button on bottom right that says something like Reset. After doing that Chrome was trashed. Must I uninstall Chrome?

 

[Muse]

I can't go through the steps to change that in Chrome because Chrome is trashed. It appears that from this browser (Edge) I can only change Edge flags.

 

[Muse]

I managed to close Chrome and open a window that seems to work OK, went to History and restored one of the windows, then another. Can I restore all my windows? If not I suppose I can live with this a long as Chrome behaves now. WTH happened?

 

[WilliamM2]

No idea. I have never seen that volume popup in chrome or edge on any computer I have used or worked on.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Did you ever take Opera for a test spin? I have been very pleased with it, in comparison to EDGE or Chrome.

 

[Muse]

Did you ever take Opera for a test spin? I have been very pleased with it, in comparison to EDGE or Chrome.

I should give it a toss. I think I used it some years ago, maybe with XP. Because it was still supported after Firefox stopped supporting XP?

I have Brave Browser installed. I use it sometimes when I have problems in Chrome. It's usually because the site is doing something nasty like not letting me access its information unless I subscribe. Brave by default doesn't support Java Script IIRC, so it runs some sites that Chrome will not. It also has better security, I believe.

 

[Muse]

I managed to get Chrome to come out of its coma. However, I couldn't get it to restore windows. I had to repeatedly go to History and restore one window at a time. I picked windows with the most tabs and restored one at a time until I just lost interest. So, I lost 2/3 of my windows. Anyway, I'm in Chrome again.