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# How to restrict Google Chrome from control of media keys
- URL: https://en.blog.themarfa.name/how-to-restrict-google-chrome-to-control-media-keys/
- Published: 2019-07-24T11:20:36.000Z
- Updated: 2019-07-24T11:21:29.000Z
- Description: In the latest versions of Google Chrome added support of media keys. Now when you press the video or audio control buttons on the keyboard nothing happens, because the browser intercepts it.
- Author: Konstantin Dokuchaev
- Tags: Chrome, Windows, macos

In the latest versions of Google Chrome added support of media keys. Now when you press the video or audio control buttons on the keyboard nothing happens, because the browser intercepts it.

*This is autotranslated version of [this post](https://blog.themarfa.name/kak-zaprietit-google-chrome-pieriekhvatyvat-klavishi-upravlieniia-miedia/).*

It's very simple to fix this behavior. Open this url `chrome://flags/#hardware-media-key-handling` , and then click Disabled:

![](https://blog.themarfa.name/content/images/2019/06/image-79.png)

Restart the browser. Now Chrome is no longer intercepts the media keys.