You only want desktop apps to respond to keyboard media key presses, not your web browser. This happens regardless of whether you have the app in focus or running in the background.Īnd this is precisely where the annoyance creeps in. What spoils things is the fact Chrome “listens” to your media keys all the time that the browser is open. Google Chrome supports keyboard media keys and the feature is undoubtedly helpful for most. Disable Chrome’s Hardware Media Key Feature Google Chrome’s hardware media key handling feature (to give it its full name) is pretty handy, especially if you use streaming sites like Spotify Web, Netflix, BBC iPlayer, etc frequently.īut it’s also pretty annoying when you press pause/play/next/previous buttons to skip a track in a desktop app like iTunes, only for nothing to happen at all.Īlthough this “feature” is enabled by default you can disable it, and here’s how. You don’t need to download or install anything, and the trick works on Windows, maOS and Linux systems alike. There is simple, but not-obvious way to stop Chrome ‘stealing’ your media keys when the browser is open.
It gets pretty annoying when you press a media key button but nothing happens when Chrome is open If you’re having issues with your keyboard media keys not working in desktop apps when the Chrome browser is running, this post is for you.
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