{"id":225,"date":"2020-02-07T13:43:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T11:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/binaryvikings.io\/?p=225"},"modified":"2020-02-07T13:44:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T11:44:57","slug":"google-chrome-top-turns-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/binaryvikings.io\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome &#8211; top turns black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-228\" src=\"https:\/\/binaryvikings.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/fullscreenfixheader.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"865\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/binaryvikings.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/fullscreenfixheader.png 865w, https:\/\/binaryvikings.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/fullscreenfixheader-300x84.png 300w, https:\/\/binaryvikings.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/fullscreenfixheader-768x215.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You may have experienced that the top of Google Chrome becomes black like displayed in the picture below, when you maximize the window &#8211; the black box covers the URL and bookmarks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-226\" src=\"https:\/\/binaryvikings.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/chromebannerblack-1024x424.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/binaryvikings.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/chromebannerblack-1024x424.png 1024w, https:\/\/binaryvikings.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/chromebannerblack-300x124.png 300w, https:\/\/binaryvikings.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/chromebannerblack-768x318.png 768w, https:\/\/binaryvikings.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/chromebannerblack.png 1266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At first I believed it was only a Google Chrome issue, until I read that people had the problem with Firefox as well. Shortly after, I experienced the same thing in Outlook, when maximized.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I went on a bit of a hunt and found the following solution worked for me.<\/p>\n<p>For a quick-fix; In Google Chrome, you can press\u00a0<strong>F11<\/strong> which will put Chrome in full screen &#8211; press it again and you will exit full screen, which most likely solved your problem. At least for some time.<\/p>\n<p>For a more permanent fix; If you have<strong> Intel HD Graphics<\/strong>, you can:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Right-Click\u00a0<\/strong>the\u00a0<strong>Desktop<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Click\u00a0<strong>Intel Graphics Settings\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Click\u00a0<strong>Display<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>General Settings<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Put a check mark in both\u00a0<strong>Scale Full Screen\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Override Application Settings<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>As shown in the pictures below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-227\" src=\"https:\/\/binaryvikings.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/fullscreenfix-1024x728.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/binaryvikings.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/fullscreenfix-1024x728.png 1024w, https:\/\/binaryvikings.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/fullscreenfix-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/binaryvikings.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/fullscreenfix-768x546.png 768w, https:\/\/binaryvikings.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/fullscreenfix.png 1025w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The same thing goes for NVIDIA and ATI cards, by going to the\u00a0<strong>Control Panel<\/strong> by <strong>right-clicking<\/strong> the\u00a0<strong>Desktop.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I hope this fixes your issue, at least it fixed it for me!<\/p>\n<p>Over&#8217;n&#8217;out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have experienced that the top of Google Chrome becomes black like displayed in the picture below, when you maximize the window &#8211; the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides","category-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/binaryvikings.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/binaryvikings.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/binaryvikings.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/binaryvikings.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/binaryvikings.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/binaryvikings.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/binaryvikings.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/binaryvikings.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/binaryvikings.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/binaryvikings.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/binaryvikings.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}