Red background in side panel and Refresh UI not working

[divyam234]

System Details

• OS: Windows 11
• Thorium Latest

I am seeing awful red background in side panel.

[Nicols0Mart]

Having the same issue here. Also using win11 and todays build.
I know is not related to the issue, but in latest build I can't manage to enable chrome refresh 2023 UI. If someone facing the same issue let me know I'll open a separate issue for it

[divyam234]

@Nicols0Mart Can confirm chrome refresh UI not working for me also

[krystofkrticka]

I'm also having this issue. Call me weird but I actually like how the 2023 redesign looks 😆

[Ciancy28]

I'm also having this issue. Call me weird but I actually like how the 2023 redesign looks 😆

same

[firegold763]

It's a common issue in M124, since Google is deprecating the old layout in favour of the new insanely huge Chrome Refresh (that has the greatest thing of having scroll arrows in context menus on every screen that has a lower resolution of 4K or has a scaling that is higher than 100%, usually laptops) bullshit. That's why I'm still in M123 which is the last version that has the fully working old layout, I hope this will be fixed at least on Thorium.

[Alex313031]

@krystofkrticka @divyam234 @Ciancy28 @Nicols0Mart @firegold763 I can confirm the red issue, however, read the release notes about how to get Chrome Refresh 2023 UI working properly.

[firegold763]

@krystofkrticka @divyam234 @Ciancy28 @Nicols0Mart @firegold763 I can confirm the red issue, however, read the release notes about how to get Chrome Refresh 2023 UI working properly.

I've added that command line (the flag thing) in the shortcut, but the red background is still there. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.

EDIT: It was only to enable Chrome Refresh 2023, which I TOTALLY don't want, if you want to keep the old UI as the default one you must know about these issues and try to fix them. For the moment I'll stick with the old release.

[Ciancy28]

@krystofkrticka @divyam234 @Ciancy28 @Nicols0Mart @firegold763 I can confirm the red issue, however, read the release notes about how to get Chrome Refresh 2023 UI working properly.

well, it looks like #customize-chrome-side-panel was automatically reset to default after this update (I had enabled it in the previous release as explained by m123 release notes), re-enabling it did fix the issue for me, but that wasn't mentioned anywhere in the m124 release notes, unless I missed something despite reading the whole thing multiple times

[krystofkrticka]

I tried multiple times re-enabling it but I still got the old design. This looks like the bug which happened to me in production version of chrome, that on some computers it was working just fine but on some it still shown the old design, before it was forced on all users and is working just fine on all computers. I even tried clean install of thorium in a VM and still got the old design after enabling it.

[krystofkrticka]

But in apps using electron which is based on chromium it is quite annoying because there are the context menus stupidly large. Though in chrome I don't mind it, maybe that is that I have all my computers set with scaling to 100% and was using MS Edge (also based on chromium) for a while which got those thicc context menus first, and if I compare it with chrome it looks like chrome has still quite normal size of those context menus compered to MS edge.

[Ciancy28]

@krystofkrticka @divyam234 @Ciancy28 @Nicols0Mart @firegold763 I can confirm the red issue, however, read the release notes about how to get Chrome Refresh 2023 UI working properly.

well, it looks like #customize-chrome-side-panel was automatically reset to default after this update (I had enabled it in the previous release as explained by m123 release notes), re-enabling it did fix the issue for me, but that wasn't mentioned anywhere in the m124 release notes, unless I missed something despite reading the whole thing multiple times

unfortunately, today my thorium install suddenly reverted back to non-refresh 2023 ui and re-enabling the flag doesn't fix it anymore

[krystofkrticka]

@krystofkrticka @divyam234 @Ciancy28 @Nicols0Mart @firegold763 I can confirm the red issue, however, read the release notes about how to get Chrome Refresh 2023 UI working properly.

well, it looks like #customize-chrome-side-panel was automatically reset to default after this update (I had enabled it in the previous release as explained by m123 release notes), re-enabling it did fix the issue for me, but that wasn't mentioned anywhere in the m124 release notes, unless I missed something despite reading the whole thing multiple times

unfortunately, today my thorium install suddenly reverted back to non-refresh 2023 ui and re-enabling the flag doesn't fix it anymore

yep, this looks like the issue I had with Chrome before the refresh was released and that was that refresh was working on some computers and on some didn't

[ghost]

I am on Debian and facing the same issue

[linehaulai]

@krystofkrticka @divyam234 @Ciancy28 @Nicols0Mart @firegold763 I can confirm the red issue, however, read the release notes about how to get Chrome Refresh 2023 UI working properly.

I read through your notes, and followed the instructions to patch this, but am hung up at the end.
What exactly is the syntax that needs to be written in the terminal to remove the red GUI from the side panel?
I work exclusively out of that panel, and if I can't resolve this, I'm going to have to sit the rest of this release out.