How to Enable Volume Control and Hardware Media Key Handling in Google Chrome
Google Chrome 75 introduces a new feature that allows using media keys on the keyboard to control the media content playback in the browser. When enabled, it allows using the Volume Up, Volume Down, or Mute media keys, you will see a special toast notification with buttons that you can use to control media playback.
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The following screenshot demonstrates the media notification toast in Google Chrome:
This interesting feature can be disabled with a special flag.
Google Chrome comes with a number of useful options which are experimental. They are not supposed to be used by regular users but enthusiasts and testers can easily turn them on. These experimental features can significantly improve the user experience of the Chrome browser by enabling additional functionality. To enable or disable an experimental feature, you can use hidden options called 'flags'.
To Enable Volume Control and Media Key Handling in Google Chrome,
- Open the Google Chrome browser and type the following text in the address bar:
chrome://flags/#enable-media-session-service
This will open the flags page directly with the relevant setting.
- Select the option Enable from the drop-down list next to the 'Media Session Service' line.
- Now, enable the other flag,
chrome://flags/#hardware-media-key-handling. - Restart Google Chrome by closing it manually or you can also use the Relaunch button which will appear at the very bottom of the page.
- You are done.
The feature is now enabled!
To disable it later, open the flag page and change the option from Enabled back to Default.
That's it.
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This only enables the volume, mute and play/pause. The skip forwards and skip backwards keys do not work, and are greyed out. Any solution?