Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Hangouts App In Chrome Super Tiny, Then It Vanishes.

My Hangouts app in Chrome has been vanishing on me on my home computer and I could not figure out why. I tried to uninstall it and reinstall it. Nothing fixed it. When I would close it and restart the app, it would show the “loading spinner” as normal size, but then it would shrink to an extremely tiny icon. If I then tried to click on the Hangouts app, it would vanish, never to be seen again until I reloaded the app again.

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After some searching, turns out that this is a bug, that is being tracked here.

Here is how I worked around the issue, not sure how permanent this work around is though.

  • Go to: chrome://settings/search#page%20zoom
  • Make sure the Page Zoom is 100%
  • Even if it is 100%, change it to something else.
  • Now change it back to 100%. (You could probably change it to some other default, but YMMV).

Now my Hangouts app is back to normal… For now.

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Hangouts App In Chrome Super Tiny, Then It Vanishes.

My Hangouts app in Chrome has been vanishing on me on my home computer and I could not figure out why. I tried to uninstall it and reinstall it. Nothing fixed it. When I would close it and restart the app, it would show the “loading spinner” as normal size, but then it would shrink to an extremely tiny icon. If I then tried to click on the Hangouts app, it would vanish, never to be seen again until I reloaded the app again.

tiny

After some searching, turns out that this is a bug, that is being tracked here.

Here is how I worked around the issue, not sure how permanent this work around is though.

  • Go to: chrome://settings/search#page%20zoom
  • Make sure the Page Zoom is 100%
  • Even if it is 100%, change it to something else.
  • Now change it back to 100%. (You could probably change it to some other default, but YMMV).

Now my Hangouts app is back to normal… For now.