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It will be necessary to exit it, select a different tab again and again press F11 or the empty box.

Therefore, while we are with the browser in full screen we will not be able to switch to another tab. Today I finally snapped and decided I was going to take the time to identify the smallest possible change to my Chrome profile that would fix this issue, hence the solution above.In this way, the full screen mode will be exclusive for the tab in which we are at that certain moment. Unfortunately, the only suggested fix I’ve found is to remove and recreate my Chrome profile from scratch, which is also annoying because then I have to restore all my tabs, log back into everything, etc. Just about every time this has happened, it has annoyed me enough that I spent some time Googling for a solution. As far as I can tell, when this occurs there’s no way through the UI to get it to stop doing this. On a somewhat regular basis, Google Chrome on Ubuntu Linux gets stuck for me in a state where every time I launch it, it immediately goes into full-screen mode, even if it wasn’t in full-screen mode the last time I exited from Chrome.

Restart Google Chrome, and you should be all set.

Run jq 'del(.)' /tmp/Preferences & mv /tmp/Preferences ~/.config/google-chrome/Default (this assumes that you have the jq utility installed if not, then install it first).

Exit from Google Chrome completely (i.e., make sure it isn’t even running in the background) by clicking the three-dots menu (⋮) on the right side of the URL bar and selecting “Exit”.

If you’re using Google Chrome on Linux and it’s stuck in a state where every time you launch it, it starts in full-screen mode, here’s how to fix it without having to recreate your whole Chrome profile from scratch:

UPDATE : The current version of Chrome has restored the checkbox allowing people to tell Chrome to launch without prompting, so the hack described below is no longer needed.