[gentoo-user] Chrome flipping through tabs when it should not

[gentoo-user] Chrome flipping through tabs when it should not

[Grant Edwards]

Starting with google-chrome 1.41, I have noticed a problem any time
there are multiple tabs open.  Any horizontal movement of the mouse
cursor within any of the tabs at the top will cause the broser to
cycle through the tabs.  This makes it _very_ difficult to actually
click on a tab to select it. You have to make sure that moving the
mouse cursor out of the desired tab after clicking on it is strictly
vertical.

Has anybody else noticed this?

Any ideas how to fix it?

Any ideas on how to roll back to a previous version? The Gentoo
repository only seems to have the one (broken) version in it.

--
Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: Chrome flipping through tabs when it should not

[Grant Edwards]

On 2025-10-03, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:

> Starting with google-chrome 1.41, I have noticed a problem any time
> there are multiple tabs open.  Any horizontal movement of the mouse
> cursor within any of the tabs at the top will cause the broser to
> cycle through the tabs.  This makes it _very_ difficult to actually
> click on a tab to select it.

I think this is the issue:

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/445495197

[gentoo-user] Re: Chrome flipping through tabs when it should not

[Grant Edwards]

On 2025-10-03, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2025-10-03, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Starting with google-chrome 141, I have noticed a problem any time
>> there are multiple tabs open.  Any horizontal movement of the mouse
>> cursor within any of the tabs at the top will cause the broser to
>> cycle through the tabs.  This makes it _very_ difficult to actually
>> click on a tab to select it.
>
> I think this is the issue:
>
> https://issues.chromium.org/issues/445495197

Is there any way to roll back from 141 to 140?

All of the old versions seem to be missing from the Gentoo repository.

[gentoo-user] Re: Chrome flipping through tabs when it should not

[Grant Edwards]

On 2025-10-03, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2025-10-03, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2025-10-03, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Starting with google-chrome 141, I have noticed a problem any time
>>> there are multiple tabs open.  Any horizontal movement of the mouse
>>> cursor within any of the tabs at the top will cause the broser to
>>> cycle through the tabs.  This makes it _very_ difficult to actually
>>> click on a tab to select it.

There's a similar/related issue in any content window with a
horizontal scrollbar. Any horizontal mouse movement in that window
will scroll the window all the way to the right.

>> I think this is the issue:
>>
>> https://issues.chromium.org/issues/445495197

That is definitely the issue.

> Is there any way to roll back from 141 to 140?

I grabbed a 140 ebuild file from the GitHub mirror, put that in a
local repository and then masked >=141.

After downgrading to 140, everything works fine.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Chrome flipping through tabs when it should not

[David Bryant]

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On Friday, October 3, 2025 9:59:21 AM Central Daylight Time Grant Edwards wrote:
> Is there any way to roll back from 141 to 140?
> 
> All of the old versions seem to be missing from the Gentoo repository.

I see three older versions on https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/www-client/
chromium[1]. You need to say something like

emerge =www-client/chromium-140.0.7339.207

I also see that the 141.0.7390.54 package has been masked ... emerge chromium should 
do the trick.
-- 
David Bryant
Canyon Lake, Texas

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[gentoo-user] Re: Chrome flipping through tabs when it should not

[Grant Edwards]

On 2025-10-03, David Bryant <davidbryant@gvtc.com> wrote:
> On Friday, October 3, 2025 9:59:21 AM Central Daylight Time Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Is there any way to roll back from 141 to 140?
>> 
>> All of the old versions seem to be missing from the Gentoo repository.
>
> I see three older versions on https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/www-client/
> chromium[1]. You need to say something like
>
> emerge =www-client/chromium-140.0.7339.207
>
> I also see that the 141.0.7390.54 package has been masked ... emerge chromium should 
> do the trick.

I'm not using chromium.  I'm using google-chrome.

A few years ago, the build times for chromium got so long that I gave
up on it.  I usually had google-chrome installed anyway, because there
was something that didn't work with chromium (probably some streaming
service like Netflix).

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Chrome flipping through tabs when it should not

[David Bryant]

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On Friday, October 3, 2025 2:45:25 PM Central Daylight Time Grant Edwards wrote:
> I'm not using chromium.  I'm using google-chrome.
> 
> A few years ago, the build times for chromium got so long that I gave
> up on it.  I usually had google-chrome installed anyway, because there
> was something that didn't work with chromium (probably some streaming
> service like Netflix).

Here's a Google mirror.

https://mirror.cs.uchicago.edu/google-chrome/pool/main/g/google-chrome-stable/[1]

And here's a link to a .deb package that ought to work correctly.

https://mirror.cs.uchicago.edu/google-chrome/pool/main/g/google-chrome-stable/google-chrome-stable_141.0.7390.54-1_amd64.deb[2]

Presumably you already know how to install a .deb package in Gentoo.
-- 
David Bryant
Canyon Lake, Texas

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[1] https://mirror.cs.uchicago.edu/google-chrome/pool/main/g/google-chrome-stable/
[2] https://mirror.cs.uchicago.edu/google-chrome/pool/main/g/google-chrome-stable/
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[gentoo-user] Re: Chrome flipping through tabs when it should not

[Grant Edwards]

On 2025-10-03, David Bryant <davidbryant@gvtc.com> wrote:
> On Friday, October 3, 2025 2:45:25 PM Central Daylight Time Grant Edwards wrote:
>> I'm not using chromium.  I'm using google-chrome.
>> 
>> [...]
>
> Here's a Google mirror.
>
> https://mirror.cs.uchicago.edu/google-chrome/pool/main/g/google-chrome-stable/[1]
>
> And here's a link to a .deb package that ought to work correctly.
>
> https://mirror.cs.uchicago.edu/google-chrome/pool/main/g/google-chrome-stable/google-chrome-stable_141.0.7390.54-1_amd64.deb[2]

I don't understand.  That's the version for which I reported the
problem.  It does not work correctly for me or for a number of other
people on various distros. The equivalent versions of Chromium are also
reported to fail the same way.

My testing indicates that the same issue exists in the current beta
and unstable.

I had to downgrade to 140.<something> to get it to work. 

> Presumably you already know how to install a .deb package in Gentoo.

I'm sure I could figure it out, but I usually just use the ebuilds in
the Gentoo repo.  Are you claiming if I installed it by hand it would
work better than "emerge google-chrome"?

--
Grant Edwards

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Chrome flipping through tabs when it should not

[David Bryant]

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On Saturday, October 4, 2025 7:04:05 PM Central Daylight Time Grant Edwards wrote:
> I'm sure I could figure it out, but I usually just use the ebuilds in
> the Gentoo repo.  Are you claiming if I installed it by hand it would
> work better than "emerge google-chrome"?

Well, the web site https://mirror.cs.uchicago.edu/google-chrome/pool/main/g/google-chrome-stable/[1] has versions of google-chrome going back to 12 December 2018 
(71.0.3178-98.1). So if you want an older version of google-chrome you can probably find it 
there.

I don't have time to do it right now, but you ought to be able to create an ebuild for say 
https://mirror.cs.uchicago.edu/google-chrome/pool/main/g/google-chrome-stable/google-chrome-stable_140.0.7339.127-1_amd64.deb[2] in a "local" overlay and use emerge to 
install it. Maybe I'll try to cook that up tomorrow. Use the ebuild in /var/db/repos/gentoo/
google-chrome/ as a template and change "SRC-URI" to point at the Google Chrome 
version you want. Read https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Basic_guide_to_write_Gentoo_Ebuilds/
en[3] to learn more.
-- 
David Bryant
Canyon Lake, Texas

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[1] https://mirror.cs.uchicago.edu/google-chrome/pool/main/g/google-chrome-stable/
[2] https://mirror.cs.uchicago.edu/google-chrome/pool/main/g/google-chrome-stable/
google-chrome-stable_140.0.7339.127-1_amd64.deb
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[gentoo-user] Re: Chrome flipping through tabs when it should not

[Grant Edwards]

On 2025-10-05, David Bryant <davidbryant@gvtc.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, October 4, 2025 7:04:05 PM Central Daylight Time Grant Edwards wrote:
>> I'm sure I could figure it out, but I usually just use the ebuilds in
>> the Gentoo repo.  Are you claiming if I installed it by hand it would
>> work better than "emerge google-chrome"?
>
> Well, the web site
> https://mirror.cs.uchicago.edu/google-chrome/pool/main/g/google-chrome-stable/[1]
> has versions of google-chrome going back to 12 December 2018
> (71.0.3178-98.1). So if you want an older version of google-chrome
> you can probably find it there.

Yep, old binary distributions can also be downloaded from the official site:

  https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/pool/main/g/...

[You just can't get a directory listing.]

> I don't have time to do it right now, but you ought to be able to
> create an ebuild for say [...]

There's no need to. The Gentoo repo hass ebuilds for the official
chrome binary distributions. Those ebuilds install the .deb packages.

  https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/www-client/google-chrome
  https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/www-client/google-chrome-beta
  https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/www-client/google-chrome-unstable

Old ebuilds can be downloaded from the GitHub mirror of the official
Gentoo repo.  The last v140 ebuild from the Gentoo repo works fine.

--
Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: Chrome flipping through tabs when it should not

[Grant Edwards]

On 2025-10-03, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2025-10-03, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Starting with google-chrome 1.41, I have noticed a problem any time
>> there are multiple tabs open.  Any horizontal movement of the mouse
>> cursor within any of the tabs at the top will cause the broser to
>> cycle through the tabs.  This makes it _very_ difficult to actually
>> click on a tab to select it.
>
> I think this is the issue:
>
> https://issues.chromium.org/issues/445495197

For posterity's sake, here is the Gentoo bug:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/963709

Switching the mouse from evdev to libinput in xorg seems to avoid the bug.

For recent installs, everything is probably already using libinput.

My one machine that exhibitted the bug was initialy installed over 10
years ago and had never switched over to using libinput for xorg.

--
Grant