Issues Using Every Discourse Site on Chrome

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Hey there, I have noticed that every single Discourse using community I have encountered does not let me navigate it on Chrome and I thought I’d ask here because this is getting annoying.

There are two things that are blocking it. Firstly, there’s a preloader image that makes it impossible to click anything and I have to either delete it using DevTools or block it with uBlock

<img class="preloader-image" src="data:image/svg;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" alt="Discourse Meta">

Secondly, there is CSS that removes the ability to scroll vertically. I have to remove the entry with DevTools:

<style>
                html {
                    overflow-y: hidden !important;
                }

                /* user picked a theme where the "regular" scheme is dark */
                /* user picked a theme a light scheme and also enabled a dark scheme */
                /* deal with light scheme first */
                @media (prefers-color-scheme: light) {
                    html {
                        background-color: #ffffff;
                    }

                    #d-splash .preloader-text-wrapper {
                        color: #222222;
                    }
                }

This only seems to be an issue in Chrome, but the CSS is there in other browsers.

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Wow, that’s very odd. I can’t say I can repro it.

Just to make sure: have you tried it in incognito mode/with all extensions disabled and are you on the lastest version of chrome?

Just want to make sure we eliminate those cases first.

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That means that the Discourse app won’t boot on your browser. Can you try again in incognito mode?

Last time someone reported this exact problem, it was caused by a bad browser extension

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It was ‘Auto Quality for YouTube’ which seems to have been updated recently and is now Malware.

Disabling it or removing it fixes the issue, thanks.

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