Over the previous few days a number of customers have been reporting points with Chrome immediately crashing on Windows 10, usually preceded by pop-ups originating from their extensions.
One person experiences:
Seemingly out of nowhere ~15 minutes in the past, Google Chrome stopped working for me. My extensions crashed and all pages (together with Chrome pages like settings) refuse to load. The display is totally clean, and the tab is solely labeled “Untitled” with a frowning folder subsequent to it.
The Chrome help workforce has acknowledged the difficulty, saying:
It seems that that is to do with the User Data listing which shops info on the present set up.
They counsel three workarounds:
Re-run the Chrome installer, which can restore the difficulty. This means downloading Chrome and executing the installer once more.Run the Beta model of Chrome till Google pushes out a repair.Clear the Chrome User Data listing
The final process isn’t advisable, as it might trigger you to lose your knowledge corresponding to saved passwords and bookmarks in the event that they haven’t been synced to the cloud.
If you might be determined nevertheless right here is how to try this:
Close any open Chrome occasionOpen File Explorer and navigate to: %LOCALAPPDATA%GoogleChromeUser DataDelete the “Local State” file from the listing (guarantee you’ve got a backup!)Re-Open Chrome
Of the three choices, operating the Beta model of Chrome appears to be the only and most secure till Google releases a repair.
Have any of our readers run into this difficulty? Let us know under.
