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Can not disable Global Media Control any longer #657
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Does the 123 version of Chrome or Chromium have the same problem? |
@Banderi Try also disabling GlobalMediaControlsUpdatedUI |
I tried disabling that flag as well as Do you know perhaps where in the code the |
@Banderi Use the source code search for Chromium here > https://source.chromium.org/chromium Most of these features are controlled by this file > https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:media/base/media_switches.cc |
Ok, I think I understand my confusion now. I couldn't figure out why the searches weren't returning anything, and after looking through the source I couldn't figure out why there was whole sections missing from the folders. Now I realize that this fork doesn't include the Chromium source in its entirety, and requires third party tools to fetch the rest (depot_tools). I'm gonna try to look now at the source directly now and see if anything changed with the usage of the |
I'm using latest build from today and this is still broken on windows release. Disabling the flag #global-media-controls-updated-ui does not remove the icon when playing a video in YouTube for example |
@Nicols0Mart @Banderi Yeah, it still doesn't seem to be able to be disabled, even with |
System Details
Problem
I used to use the
--disable-features=GlobalMediaControls
flag on the startup shortcut to disable the Global Media Controls panel. Unfortunately, this no longer seems to work with the recent update. The#global-media-controls-updated-ui
flag in the settings (and any other) also does not remove the button.Screenshots
Additional Notes
I've tried to browse through the source for more insight on how the
--disable-features=
flag is parsed, and understand why it no longer works, however I can't seem to find anything regarding this in the source. I see some sporadic references tokEnableFeatures
but that also doesn't seem actually used anywhere. The only file where that is used is a browser test .cc that makes references to various missing files such ascontent/shell/common/shell_switches.h
. What is going on here?The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: