Friday, November 7, 2014

Find Box In Chrome Not Displaying

Recently I became aware that Chrome on our computers in Denton ISD would not display the find box in response to pressing CTRL-F or selecting find from the menu.  While you could use the find function, it was cumbersome because you could not easily see the text you typed into the non-existing find box.

NOTE: Here is an example on how the google find should work when you press CTRL-F and then type "google"



If you pressed CTRL-F and typed "google" the odds are that you do not see the word you are typing in the upper right but still get the results of the word "google" being highlighted on the page.

In order to correct your Chrome so that is shows the find box along with the up/down arrows follow the following steps:


  1. Go to Settings
  2. Scroll down to thebottom and click "show advanced settings".
  3. Scroll further down, almost to the bottom, under "System" and uncheck "Use hardware acceleration when available"

  4. Restart Chrome