This morning, I did my normal apt-get update/upgrade, and this brought in a new version of google-chrome-stable
ii google-chrome-stable 97.0.4692.71-1 amd64 The web browser from Google After restarting in the new version of Chrome, I am unable to move tabs around within a window. Any attempt to drag a tab to the left or the right immediately causes the creation of a new window, with the tab that I was trying to move inside the new window. >From there, if I right-click the offending tab inside the new window, there's an option to "Move tab to a new window". I can use this to send the tab back to its original window -- but now it's on the far right. I googled (ironically) the problem, and of course because Chrome 97 is so new, there are no useful pages in the search results yet. The nearest I found were some older reports of similar issues. One thread reported this happening under Xwayland. I am not running Wayland. Pure X11. Another thread reported this happening if a hardware device (such as a keyboard, microphone, or audio headset) was sending events. I ran xev to verify that there were no incoming events. I also tried unplugging and re-plugging my USB keyboard. I finally tried unplugging my USB microphone/camera. Neither of those helped. (While re-plugging the USB mic/camera, I accidentally pressed the power button and turned my computer off. I'm pleased to report that the GRUB issue I had last time I booted did not occur this time -- the keyboard worked in GRUB, and I was able to reboot without a 2 minute wait. Sadly, the reboot did not fix the Chrome tab dragging issue.) I know this isn't the *best* place to ask for help with proprietary browsers, but this is a pretty popular one, so there's a chance. Has anyone else encountered this problem? More importantly, does anyone know how to *fix* it? Being unable to rearrange tabs in a sane manner is EXTREMELY irritating.
