Amethyst: Focus Follows Mouse not working with Google Chrome 69+

[qayshp]

System

• Amethyst version: 0.12.2b3 (64)
• macOS version: 10.13.6

What's the problem?

FFM no longer switches to Google Chrome windows in Chrome 69+.
If a Chrome window is focused, and you hover over another Chrome window, focus is not moved.
If you are focused on another app and hover over a Chrome window, focus is not moved.
If you have Chrome focused and hover over a window from another app, focus leaves Chrome and you must use a click or the keyboard to move it back.

How can it be reproduced?

Install latest stable Google Chrome and beta release of Amethyst.

What applications are involved?

Google Chrome v69+

Has anything fixed it, even temporarily?

Nope.

dotfile (if you have one)

Nope.

Screenshots

Nope.

[zacharydenton]

I discovered a workaround:

1. Go to
2. Change the "Use Views browser windows instead of Cocoa" setting to Disabled.
3. Relaunch Chrome

[qayshp]

Thanks! Tried that and it works like a charm again!

Any idea if we should report this as an issue with the feature in Google Chrome, or work on it here, or both?

[ianyh]

I think this is probably an Amethyst bug, but I haven’t had a chance to dig in yet.

[vespakoen]

The suggested workaround doesn't work anymore, anyone aware of a new workaround for the latest stable google chrome?

[zacharydenton]

It looks like the code has been completely removed from Chrome (last update - Jan 9 2019): https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=832676

@ianyh Perhaps the CRs linked in that bug provide a hint toward fixing this?

[ianyh]

On further investigation the issue actually seems to be window titles not matching. CGWindowListCopyWindowInfo reports tab names, but accessibility reports tab names followed with - Google Chrome.