Does anyone have issues with Chrome + auto-hide taskbar?

[crumbworks]

Right off the bat, I know the vast majority of people do not auto-hide the taskbar... but I do and I always have, since Windows 98.

 

For the past 8-10 months, Chrome has been broken and constantly goes on top and won't let me bring up the taskbar with the mouse. It only happens in Chrome. I can alt-tab to any other application and the taskbar will come up just fine.

 

- It's not just my desktop (happens on my laptop too) -- both are Win 7 x64

- Seems to even happen in a fresh install of Windows

- It's only Chrome, as far as I can tell

 

I've tried tons of things from Google searches (adding flags to the shortcut link, changing compatibility modes, turning off and back on some Chrome settings, turning off auto-hide and back on, reinstalling Chrome, etc) to no avail.

 

The only temporary "fix" I've found is to unmaximize Chrome, bring up the taskbar, move my mouse to let it auto-hide (aka slide back down), then re-maximize Chrome. This only fixes it for maybe 10-15 minutes of general use, then same thing.

 

Helpppppppppppppppppppp....

 

P.S. If I maximize a YouTube video and then un-maximize, it always happens. That is one thing that often triggers it.