According to Android Police, Google is racing in opposition to the clock to get a bug fix out in time as a result of in simply three days, Chrome OS 87 is to be launched on the Stable channel. Android apps have by no means fared effectively on Chrome OS and now this bug is significantly slowing down the enter speeds {that a} person offers with when typing on the keyboard whereas running an Android app on Chrome OS 87. The keyboard enter slows down to a crawl forcing the person to wait for the earlier line he typed to hit the display screen earlier than typing the following line. The concern has been affecting customers on the Beta, Dev, and Canary channels on Chrome OS 87.
Time is running out for Google to fix a bug on Chrome OS
Even although the slowdown would not have an effect on the Stable channel in the intervening time, that would change as a result of after the aforementioned three days, Chrome OS 87 begins running on the Stable channel bringing the keyboard enter bug to those that are used to a comparatively bug-free expertise on that channel.
Chrome OS customers have been complaining concerning the concern on the
Google assist web page. One member with the person title of Mattev writes, “Some apps are very slow to type into. What I mean is, if I’m typing stuff like this, the characters lag and take a few seconds to appear on the screen. The Chrome browser works fine. The problem happens in other apps like Opera browser. I’m on the beta channel. Another problem is that when hovering over a tab in Chrome browser, some other tabs flicker light/dark. I don’t know if it’s related.”
Google has three days to kill off a bug on Chrome OS 87 earlier than it hits the Stable Channel
A Diamond product knowledgeable named Jim Dantin, thought of to be on the prime of these helpers that flick through Google assist communities searching for to reply questions, had some options for a short-term fix. He wrote “The usual cause of “gradual” issues, is one or more extensions causing problems, flags that you may have altered, too many tabs open, you haven’t completely turned off your Chromebook recently, you are low on storage space, or you have too many extensions installed.
- Reboot your Chromebook, don’t just close the lid, every night.
- Reset all flags. Flags are really intended for the Google engineering/development team, not end users.
- Delete or disable unneeded extensions. Or, do a Browser Reset to disable them all.
- Keep the number of open tabs to a minimum, especially if you are doing something where performance matters.
- Make sure that you have adequate (more than just a few GB) of available space on your internal storage.
Check your internet speed. I like speedof.me or speedtest.net as a test. Compare to what you should be getting from your internet provider.”
There is no query that creating paperwork or simply typically typing with this latency bug is frustrating. Last month, Chrome OS customers had one other concern taken care of. To ensure that Android apps might be readable on Chrome OS, they had been universally scaled to be 25% bigger. The drawback with this is that within the means of scaling these apps, content material seems to be too huge on the display screen ensuing within the chopping off of content material. Another drawback was that customers with a digital pen found that the tip of the pen was not matching up with the place the “ink” was ranging from on the show. In different phrases, the “ink” trailed the tip of the digital pen making it exhausting for customers to draw for the reason that traces had been off to the underside proper. Users could be compelled to guess once they put the pen’s tip on the show, the place the precise drawing was going to present up. And since there was no method to shut off uniform scaling, some workarounds had been prompt similar to the usage of an app known as Activity Launcher (
accessible from the Google Play Store).
1) Install the app, launch it, and search for “display.” 2) Click on com.android.settings. DisplaySettings to launch hidden show settings.3) Click on “Advanced” after which “Screen Size.” 4) Move the show dimension to “small” byshifting the slider to the left.You should repeat these directions from step two to 4 each time you log out or restart your Chromebook. Following this workaround will return the apps to the way in which they regarded earlier than uniform scaling was first tried on Chrome OS.
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