Question Often unable to switch between Chrome windows on Android tablet

[dj54321]

On my 6 week old Lenovo Android 13 M9, I often cannot switch between Google Chrome windows (by tapping on a different open window) without going back to the home screen and then clicking on the Chrome icon to return to the Chrome windows. Once I do that, switching windows works fine for 5 minutes to maybe 2 hours. I've been updating Chrome as my tablet alerts me to new updates. I usually have 10 to 20 windows open. Please advise.

 

[VidJunky]

Sounds like something may have during a Chrome update or something. You can probably clear this up by clearing the app cache for Chrome. To do this, go to Settings>Applications>Chrome>Storage>Clear cache. Clearing the cache will not cause you to lose any information or affect the app's behavior. If all of your bookmarks are backed up to the cloud you could also clear data, but this will clear cookies, local history (not backed up to the cloud) and any settings you may have set for the app itself, like dark mode.

Let us know if helps or not and we'll offer more advice.

 

[B. Diddy]

Are you talking about browser tabs along the top, or are you tapping the tab management button to bring up all of the open tabs in thumbnail view?

 

[dj54321]

Are you talking about browser tabs along the top, or are you tapping the tab management button to bring up all of the open tabs in thumbnail view?

The former. So I guess you haven't had similar issues on your Lenovo M9?

 

[dj54321]

Sounds like something may have during a Chrome update or something. You can probably clear this up by clearing the app cache for Chrome. To do this, go to Settings>Applications>Chrome>Storage>Clear cache. Clearing the cache will not cause you to lose any information or affect the app's behavior. If all of your bookmarks are backed up to the cloud you could also clear data, but this will clear cookies, local history (not backed up to the cloud) and any settings you may have set for the app itself, like dark mode.

Let us know if helps or not and we'll offer more advice.

1) You might want to edit your first sentence to make it clearer (at least to me).

2) I followed your suggestion to clear Chrome's cache, but it didn't solve the problem.

3) I'm not too keen on trying your second suggestion of clearing Chrome's data as I know nothing about clouds and very little about bookmarks.

 

[dj54321]

OP here, I should mention that this is a recent problem -- only for approx 1.5 weeks. I often change settings but if a change I made is causing the problem, you wouldn't expect the problem to be sporadic.

 

[B. Diddy]

I use Chrome frequently on my Tab M9, and haven't noticed any issues with swapping between browser tabs.

See if it happens in Safe Mode: https://www.hardreset.info/devices/lenovo/lenovo-tab-m9/safe-mode/