Google Chrome Question

December 20, 2018, 09:52 AM

Been using my wife's HP Google Chrome for awhile after my HP Windows 10 crapped out. I've been trying to get used to this Google Chrome but we are just not getting along. Been able to figure most things out but one thing keeps evading me.

Say if I choose to start a new topic here in the Lounge another window opens where you start your topic text. Problem I'm having is if I want to add pics to the text and I have Post Image open in a different tab to access pic url's when I toggle over to the Post image tab and then toggle back to the Sig Forum tab the open window where I started the new topic is gone and I can't figure out for the life of me how to bring it back active. I'm sure it's just minimized somewhere but I can't figure it out.

I'm sure the answer is simple and I'm going to feel like a fool but could somebody give me a clue??

Thanks in advance!

December 20, 2018, 10:53 AM

slosig

I’ve seen the same thing happen with Firefox. The pop up window is smaller and completely on top of the main browser window. The easiest way to find it after it is lost is to minimize the main window. The easiest way to avoid losing it is to grab the pop up window and move it off the main window, or better yet, enlarge it and move it off the main window.

December 20, 2018, 11:23 AM

rusbro

Typically you can hover over the Chrome icon on the taskbar and see thumbnails of all open Windows, then click on the one you want. This applies to other programs as well.

December 20, 2018, 12:16 PM

Gustofer

Your new topic window won't be under the sigforum tab. The new window is likely hidden behind the main Chrome window. Try to minimize the Chrome window (or just click on and move it) to see if the new topic window is there.

Happens to me from time to time. Usually I keep the Chrome window somewhat smaller than my screen so I can see the new topic windows.

After reading the OP again, you seem to be using a PC though and I'm on a MBP, so it may be different.

December 20, 2018, 01:43 PM

Rey HRH

quote:
Originally posted by rusbro:
Typically you can hover over the Chrome icon on the taskbar and see thumbnails of all open Windows, then click on the one you want. This applies to other programs as well.

This is one of the answers and works. The window for the new topic is a separate window different from the window where you clicked on "New Discussion." It just doesn't have a tab, it's like a floating window.

"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.

December 20, 2018, 03:33 PM

Nickelsig229

quote:
Originally posted by rusbro:
Typically you can hover over the Chrome icon on the taskbar and see thumbnails of all open Windows, then click on the one you want. This applies to other programs as well.

I got tired of moving and resizing and settled in on this method. I just click or hover over the chrome icon in the task bar and select the new discussion window.