How to remove Global Media Control button from Google Chrome toolbar

If you want to remove the Global Media Control button from Chrome’s toolbar then read this useful article.

The Global Media Control button appears whenever you open website’s like YouTube on your Chrome browser. It appears right near to the Extensions and User Profile icons.

Using the button, you can control videos, music on your chrome browser. But sometimes, some people may want to remove it from their browser. Read on to know why and how you can easily remove the button.

Why Remove Chrome’s Global Media Control button

The Global Media Control is a nice feature but some of the users may not like it, like you, who is reading this post. It can be irritating because other buttons move when Media Control button is added.

Because of that users may click on buttons they don’t way to. And hence, they immediately want to get rid of the annoying button. But you don’t get any settings to remove the Media Control button.

You also don’t get options to remove it by right-clicking on it and you can’t drag and drop to hide it.  But there is way, which we have provided below.

How to remove Global Media Control button from Chrome

Follow the below steps only if you want to remove or disable the Global Media Control button from Chrome’s toolbar.

• First, make sure that you have a shortcut for Google Chrome. In case, you don’t then make a shortcut.

• After creating the shortcut, right-click on it and then click on Properties.

• When the Properties window opens up, on the Target box, enter the below text at the end of the string:

-disable-features=GloabMediaControls

• Once you’re done with that, click on Apply and then close the Properties window.

• Now, you can launch Google Chrome and you won’t see the Global Media Controls button.

Another Method to Remove Global Media Control button

You can if you don’t want to create a shortcut but wants to quickly launch Chrome with no Media Control.

There are cases where you will prefer launching Google Chrome immediately with Global Media Controls button removed along with no shortcuts. In such case you can use the following RUN command to launch Media Controls removed Chrome browser without creating any shortcut:

Chrome.exe -disable-features=GlobalMediaControls

After hitting the OK button, you will launch Google Chrome with Media Controls. Use the above command whenever you want to launch Chrome without Global Media Controls.

How to enable Chrome’s Global Media Controls button

• Open your Chrome browser and then enter the following in its address bar:

Chrome ://flags/#global-media-controls.

• After that from the drop-down menu, select Enabled, it’ll be at the right of the Global Media Controls options.

Once you enable Global Media Controls, restart your browser. Get all information about news and technology.

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