Issues and suggestions for v5.2.1168.75

[tanquang]

I just updated to CentBrowser v5.2.1168.75 today. But I quickly discovered a few issues and suggestions as follows:

1. Issue: Always using CPU even without any tabs open:

When there are no tabs open (browser is idle), the "Browser" process still uses 1~15% CPU. I tried turning off all gestures, options in chrome://settings/performance,... But it still doesn't "idle" (not using CPU).

Previously, when I was still using v5.1.1130.129, this problem did not appear.

This problem is similar to the situation on Supermium that I reported on Github before.

Screen recording video:


2. Suggestion: Never pin the Chrome Experiments icon (chrome://flags) to the toolbar:

On v5.1.1130.129 the Chrome Experiments icon was always pinned to the toolbar, wasting space with no way to remove it. After updating to v5.2.1168.75, fortunately this icon has disappeared (perhaps a bug?) from the toolbar.

However, looking at the CentBrowser\User Data\Default\Preferences file on v5.2.1168.75, this JSON object can be seen:

Code:

...
"toolbar": {
    "pinned_actions": [
      "kActionShowChromeLabs"
    ],
    "pinned_chrome_labs_migration_complete": true
},
...

Yes, kActionShowChromeLabs is the Chrome Experiments icon! Even if you delete it, when you restart the browser, it will automatically add it back later. It seems like it always tries to pin the Chrome Experiments icon to the toolbar but somehow v5.2.1168.75 "magically" ignores it.

This is great because I don't have to waste space on an icon that I never need. I hope, with this "bug", it will not (ever) be "fixed", at least not until there is an option to completely disable this icon from the toolbar like other toolbar customization options.

3. Suggestion: Allow disabling the "Image Search" feature completely:

It appears everywhere in the browser, from the right-click context menu to the address bar, wasting space and making you feel like Google is "openly tracking" your every move, which is really annoying.

I hope there will be some customization to completely disable the "Image Search" feature, or partially disable it (like removing it from the right-click context menu, removing it from the address bar, etc.).

4. Issue: The Google Hangouts is back in a new look:

If my previous article requesting to remove built-in extensions requests to remove Google Hangouts, using the --disable-component-extensions-with-background-pages flag is quite effective when successfully disabling (hiding) Google Hangouts from chrome://system/#extensions.

This flag "theoretically" still works on version v5.2.1168.75. But it seems that Google doesn't like this! They have "created" Utility: Video Capture to replace the Google Hangouts built-in extension.

As I learned on Reddit, Brave browser forum and practical experience, Utility: Video Capture will be automatically activated when opening Gmail on the new interface, or more precisely on the Gmail new interface, it will silently load and open Google Hangouts in the background even if you don't use it, and Utility: Video Capture will be activated.

Even if you close Gmail, this process will not close.

If you kill this process via the task manager, it will automatically reopen shortly after (similar to Utility: Network Service and Utility: Storage Services).

According to comments on Reddit, disabling Google Chat (Google Hangouts) in Gmail should fix this issue, but as I tested it, it no longer works.

Those are the issues and suggestions after about 2 hours of using version v5.2.1168.75. I hope it will be useful, the issues will be fixed soon, the suggestions will be added in the next version.

[QZMTCH]

2. Suggestion: Never pin the Chrome Experiments icon (chrome://flags) to the toolbar:

On v5.1.1130.129 the Chrome Experiments icon was always pinned to the toolbar, wasting space with no way to remove it. After updating to v5.2.1168.75, fortunately this icon has disappeared (perhaps a bug?) from the toolbar.

However, looking at the CentBrowser\User Data\Default\Preferences file on v5.2.1168.75, this JSON object can be seen:

Code:

...
"toolbar": {
    "pinned_actions": [
      "kShowChromeLabs"
    ],
    "pinned_chrome_labs_migration_complete": true
},
...

Yes, kShowChromeLabs is the Chrome Experiments icon! Even if you delete it, when you restart the browser, it will automatically add it back later. It seems like it always tries to pin the Chrome Experiments icon to the toolbar but somehow v5.2.1168.75 "magically" ignores it.

This is great because I don't have to waste space on an icon that I never need. I hope, with this "bug", it will not (ever) be "fixed", at least not until there is an option to completely disable this icon from the toolbar like other toolbar customization options.

cent never pinned a Chrome Labs

[kopa]

Я только что обновился до CentBrowser версии 5.2.1168.75 . Но быстро обнаружил несколько проблем и предложений:



Видео с записью экрана:


да ты просто параноик....как же найти твои проблемы?

Code:

...
"toolbar": {
    "pinned_actions": [
      "kShowChromeLabs"
    ],
    "pinned_chrome_labs_migration_complete": true
},
...

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Если завершить этот процесс через диспетчер задач, он автоматически запустится вскоре после этого (аналогично процессам «Утилиты: Сетевая служба» и «Утилиты: Службы хранения» ).

Согласно комментариям на Reddit, отключение Google Chat (Google Hangouts) в Gmail должно решить эту проблему, но, как я убедился, это больше не работает.

[tanquang]

cent never pinned a Chrome Labs

So why does cent always try to add kActionShowChromeLabs to toolbar.pinned_actions?

The Chrome Labs option has never appeared in the Appearance -> Customize your toolbar in Settings, so users cannot add/remove it.

[QZMTCH]

So why does cent always try to add kShowChromeLabs to toolbar.pinned_actions?

my cent doesn't try, it's something in your profile, check on a clean profile.

[tanquang]

my cent doesn't try, it's something in your profile, check on a clean profile.

I tested on another computer using Windows Server 2012 that had NEVER had CentBrowser installed before:


After installation, if you do not make any changes to the toolbar, the toolbar.pinned_actions object is not even created.

But in the video, you can see that when I tried to make changes to the toolbar by pinning the Reading list, the toolbar.pinned_actions object was created!

In which it is not difficult to recognize:

- kActionShowChromeLabs and pinned_chrome_labs_migration_complete are the Chrome Experiments icons that I mentioned in the previous report (although it does not appear in the toolbar customization menu).

- kActionSidePanelShowReadingList is the Reading list.

P/s: I made a typo earlier when I wrote kShowChromeLabs instead of kActionShowChromeLabs. I've updated the post.

[QZMTCH]

P/s: I made a typo earlier when I wrote kShowChromeLabs instead of kActionShowChromeLabs. I've updated the post.

yes, there is such a thing, but after that you don't get an icon on the toolbar
and this is true for all chromiums, not only in cent