Issue with google chat. Clicking on images downloads it instead of showing them

[ReviverAce]

Hi, recently something has changed as opening an image or file in google chat, opens a new tab and then downloads it into the pc instead of just showing the picture in the full screen view. Does anyone had the same issue or know how to fix it? Thank you.

[289wk]

@ReviverAce ,

Sounds like a recent Media Keys problem

Hardware Media Keys flags disappeared [possible solution]

Description of the issue: The flag for enabling/disabling the media keys from being used from Brave disappeared from brave://flags. I have found a reddit post which explains a workaround for this problem, which is enabling another flag that make other ones avaiable. How can this issue be reproduced? SImply while playing a video from Youtube or other streaming services, press the play/pause button on your keyboard. If you want to change the behaviour of the media keys, you would normally find…

Media Keys - media key option disappeared/gone/not showing up

Editing this post to make it very clear what the solution is: Go to brave://flags and find “Temporarily unexpire M100 flags”, and enable it. Restart the browser, go back to brave://flags and the Hardware Media Key flag should be there. This worked for me.

[ReviverAce]

Thx for the answers, unfortunately it did not helped… I enabled “Temporarily unexpire M100 flags”, then enabled “Hardware Media Key”. Still while clicking on sent image on google chat, instead of opening it in full screen it is being opened in a new tab and starts to download (it is not even displayed in browser). Chrome works fine so for sure it is some brave settings. Others apps like messenger, whatsapp are also fine.

[289wk]

@ReviverAce ,

Try the (temporary?) fix for another recent issue . . .

Go to brave://flags

Make note of any experiments/flags that you have experimented with; then click the Reset all button.

You might be prompted to Restart Brave Browser.

Return to brave://flags and search for Enable De-AMP and select Disable

Go to: brave://net-internals/#dns and click on Clear host cache

Next, go to: brave://net-internals/#sockets and click on both (in succession):

• Close idle sockets
• Flush socket pools

Exit/Quit everything and restart your computer.

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Notes re what are:

DNS cache:

• ‘https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-a-dns-cache-817514’

Socket pool:

With pooling, instead of closing a connection after it is used, we can keep it idle while it waits to handle another request. This saves the resources required to create a new connection.

• Ref. : ‘https://betterprogramming.pub/build-a-tcp-connection-pool-from-scratch-with-go-d7747023fe14’

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[ReviverAce]

Thank you @289wk, it worked! Problem solved.