Time is running out for Google to fix frustrating Chrome OS bug found on Android apps

According to Android Police, Google is racing against time to fix a bug in time, because in just three days, Chrome OS 87 will be released on the Stable channel. Android apps never performed well on Chrome OS and now this bug drastically slows down the typing speeds that a user faces when typing on the keyboard while running an Android app on Chrome OS 87. The Keyboard typing slows down until a crawl forcing the user to wait for the previous line he typed to reach the screen before typing the next line. The issue affects users of Beta, Dev, and Canary channels on Chrome OS 87.

While the slowdown does not affect the Stable channel at this time, that could change because after the aforementioned three days, Chrome OS 87 starts running on the Stable channel, bringing the keyboard input bug to those used to relatively bug-free operation. experience on this channel. Chrome OS users have complained about the issue on the Google support page. A member whose username is Mattev writes: “Some apps are very slow to type. What I mean is if I type stuff like this the characters lag and take a few seconds to appear on the screen. Chrome the browser is working fine. The problem occurs in other applications like opera browser. I am on beta. Another problem is when you hover the mouse over a tab in the browser Chrome, some other tabs are flashing light / dark. I don’t know if this is related. ”

A Diamond product expert named Jim Dantin, considered one of the best helpers who scour Google support communities seeking answers to questions, had solutions for a short-term fix. He wrote: “The usual cause of ‘slow’ issues, is that one or more extensions are causing issues, flags you may have changed, too many tabs open, you haven’t completely shut down your Chromebook recently you are running out of storage space, or you have too many extensions installed.

• Restart your Chromebook, don’t just close the lid, every night.
• Reset all indicators. The flags are really intended for the engineering / development team at Google, not the end users.
• Remove or disable unnecessary extensions. Or, perform a browser reset to turn them all off.
• Keep the number of open tabs to a minimum, especially if you are doing something where performance is important.
• Make sure you have enough free space (more than a few GB) on your internal storage.

Check your internet speed. I like speedof.me or speedtest.net as a test. Compare with what you should get from your internet provider.

There is no doubt that creating documents or just typing in general with this latency bug is frustrating. Last month, Chrome OS users fixed another problem. To ensure that Android apps can be read on Chrome OS, they have been universally sized to be 25% larger. The problem with this is that in the process of scaling these apps, the content appears to be too big on the screen, causing the content to cut off. Another issue was that users with a digital pen found that the tip of the pen did not match where the “ink” started on the screen. In other words, the “ink” trailed the tip of the digital pen, which made it difficult for users to draw because the lines were at the bottom right. Users would be forced to guess when they would place the pen tip on the screen, where the actual drawing would appear. And since there was no way to turn off uniform scaling, some workarounds were suggested, such as using an app called Activity Launcher (available on the Google Play Store).