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If you move your mouse up to the top of your screen in Chrome, does a black bar come down to obscure the tabs? Is it super, dooper annoying? Yeah, it is.

The problem is that you are using Chrome in “Windows 8 mode”. There is no good reason to use Chrome in that mode, so here’s how to fix it.

Black Google Chrome Fix

• Open Chrome.
• Click on the three bar thingy at the top right of the screen that lets you see the options for Chrome.
• At the bottom you will see “Relaunch Chrome in Desktop Mode”. Click it.

Black Google Chrome Page

From now on, Chrome will launch in regular desktop mode unless you switch it back to Windows 8 mode. No more stupid black bar.