Chromebooks have had a long history of lackluster screen recording software — most requiring an expensive subscription to unlock essential features. It was just a few updates ago that Google added a native solution for Chrome OS, sporting a fancy capture bar that's intuitive to use. While the upgraded screen capture experience is a welcomed change — especially tablet users — the screen recorder component is unusable for long recordings. You aren't able to seek through your captures unless you convert the WebM format into something else like for lectures. You won't have to wait much longer, as Google is finally making its screen recorder usable.
We've been tracking Google's efforts to fix Chrome OS's unseekable video recordings since February this year, and over the last few months, work has progressed slowly on its bugtracker. The developers finally merged a fix recently, which closes the curtains on this frustrating limitation. While it's live in Chrome OS 93, Google chose not to push the fix into older versions. If your Chromebook is on the Stable channel, then you're stuck with the issue until this coming September.
