Google Chrome: how to disable toast popups in the browser

Martin Brinkmann
Oct 22, 2024
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If you have upgraded Google Chrome to the latest version already, you may have noticed a new type of popup that the browser uses.

This toast popup appears centered at the top underneath the tabs. It confirms actions to you and may also provide you with follow-up options.

Here are a few examples:

  1. Chrome displays "link copied" as a popup when you right-click on a link and select the copy link option.
  2. When you right-click on a tab and select "add page to reading list", Chrome displays the "page added to reading list" toast popup. This one includes an option to open the page in the reading list.

Here are screenshots of how this looks like

Google says that new toast popups will be introduced at a later point by different teams.

The feature is rolling out currently. There is a chance that it is not activated in your version of Chrome at the time of writing. It may take weeks or even months before it reaches all desktop Chrome users.

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Disable the new Chrome Toast popups

Google has not added an option to the Chrome settings to turn off the feature. This may happen in the future, but Google has not commented on this yet.

For now, it is possible to turn the feature on or off using an experimental flag.

Here is how that is done:

  1. Load chrome://flags/#top-chrome-toasts in the Chrome address bar.
  2. Change the status of Top Chrome Toasts from Default to one of the following options:
    • Enabled -- enables the feature (this may not work for everyone)
    • Enabled with 8s, 10s, 12s -- enables the feature and sets the toast period to 8, 10 or 12 seconds.
    • Disabled -- this turns the Toast feature off.
  3. Restart Google Chrome.

To disable the Toast popups, set the value of the flag to Disabled. This turns it off.

Note: Google may remove experimental features without prior notice at any time. The option to disable the Toast notifications may be removed in a future version of the browser.

For now, you can use it to disable Top Chrome Toasts, if you do not need the visible confirmation of certain actions.

Tip: the toasts go away when you switch to another tab. Should Google remove the option to disable the toast notifications without adding the option to the settings, you may use this to make them go away whenever they appear.

Now You: what is your take on the feature? Useful confirmation for some actions? Or something that you have no use for and maybe find distracting? Feel free to leave a comment down below.

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Google Chrome: how to disable toast popups in the browser
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Google Chrome may display toast popups now after certain actions, such as copying links. If you do not need the feature, read on to find out how to disable it.
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  1. John said on October 22, 2024 at 8:55 pm
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    I just don’t like anything popping in to my tabs unless I specifically wanted it. I use Chrome because it is a pretty minimalist browser with less junk baked into it. The privacy stuff don’t bother me I use a couple Chromebooks so I certainly am not concerned about sharing data with Google. What I do not want is Chrome to become like Edge browser which is a bloated mess of a web browser. Way too much stuff tacked on to it.

    1. Anonymous said on October 24, 2024 at 8:52 pm
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      Chrome is not a “minimalist browser”, it’s a proprietary program which is constantly sending to Google privacy breaching tracking data about users browsing behavior.
      Chromium on the other hand, also developed by Google and also being a Open Source program, is the “minimalist version” of Chrome without bloat and user snooping features.
      I would say probably the best browser version based on Chrome is Brave Browser which has additional security and privacy features built in, some have to be enabled though, and some of the added feature which may not interest all is not forced “ON” indefinitely but can be disabled.
      Edge is definitely not the first pick imo.
      Read more about the differences between Chrome and Chromium here.
      https://www.lifewire.com/chromium-and-chrome-differences-4172101

    2. ^O^ said on October 23, 2024 at 9:34 am
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      At the first time I also thought that Edge was a bloated browser, however actually I think that Edge is a good browser with some interesting tools, even it has a small VPN that works nicely for banking purposes. Other good tool is the tool to hear the websites, because Edge’s speech tool is the best tool that I have found at Internet just to hear PDFs and news and everything that has a lot of text. However I have uninstalled Edge in my Android Phone and I now I have Vivaldi instead.

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