I have no problems making it optional, as long as many similar options don't add bloat over time. But to fix your problem you might want to run either the beta

I have no problems making it optional, as long as many similar options don't add bloat over time. But to fix your problem you might want to run either the beta channel or dev channel builds. Dev channel: http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?extra=devchannel http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?extra=devchannel Beta channel: http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?extra=betachannel http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?extra=betachannel