| Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | RickOH09 | 9/18/09 11:15 AM | Google chrome won't open any pages. I have installed this on many computers. This one computer (fairly new Gateway) installed fine, but brings up a blank page. No links or web pages come up. I have checked proxy and Firewall. |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | SuperKang | 9/25/09 9:45 AM | I've been having the same issue. I've uninstalled and reinstalled it several times, but there was no change. I used Chrome for awhile until this issue began, now I'm stuck with Firefox. |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | harryt1 | 9/28/09 12:43 PM | I thought I would find an answer here but apparantly not.It opens to a blank page. I tried unstalling and installing twice. |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | Ronb22 | 11/16/09 5:02 AM | Same thing here. Just blank pages. Doesn't seem to even try to access web. New tabs show immediately blank with "about:blank" label. Bookmarks don't work, nor do any attempts to type in url. |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | No♠Fear | 11/23/09 1:27 PM | Same problem here.. Chrome worked fine in the beginning, but now all of a sudden nothing shows up... (I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling multiple times over several months and its not blocked by any firewall) any help would be awesome and loved |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | sac.hel | 12/1/09 12:06 AM | try this ,after reinstallig it show a box saying"do you want to set google as you default search engine" click on change it will show dialogue box for Google chrome option at the basic>home page>check on the new tab page. and close,instantly your Goo |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | ruz | 12/22/09 5:08 AM | Same symptoms. Think it was due to a virus in my case. * start Chrome * it opens and displays a tab about:blank * the tab is always in Loading state, i.e. there's a rotating circle icon to the left of the tab caption "Loading..."; the default "New ta |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | ruz | 12/22/09 5:12 AM | Correction to the above reply: if I open new tabs and navigate to a URL by typing it or clicking on a bookmark, nothing happens, it doesn't even change to "Loading..." state, it's just always "New tab" |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | SwanyG | 12/23/09 10:33 AM | I've tried the above fix and with no luck. I really like Chrome but simply can't use it. C'mon Google... help us out here! |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | baconbitz | 12/24/09 7:21 AM | I am having the same issue after a malware attack. I just get a message that the page is unavailable. The webpage at http://www.foxnews.com/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address. |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | Diskette66 | 12/30/09 5:58 AM | This problem suddenly struck me on 12/28/09. Everything was fine and all of a sudden, all of my Chrome pages were timing out, went blank and I had to end-task out of about 15 instance of Chrome. No matter what I tried (for hours), I couldn't get an |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | RazziC | 1/5/10 5:49 PM | The above solution worked for me. I made a system restore to the 28th of December (I am not sure if this was the exact date the problem arose but right around that time at least) and disabled the automatic Windows Update. There was a couple of update |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | ruz | 1/26/10 10:03 PM | Antivirus helped me. |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | sebashh | 2/21/10 8:57 AM | Same thing for me. What should be the troubleshooting procedure? |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | ASC12345 | 3/19/10 7:54 AM | Same problem here... I don't have a good restore point, but there was a windows update right around the time when it stopped working. Does anyone have any solutions? |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | BbErSeRkK | 5/5/10 5:34 PM | I had this problem, it turned out to be a nasty rootkit trying to steal passwords. It tries to inject itself into chrome but chrome blocks it hence the blank pages. My regular anti-virus did not pick up this rootkit, i tried a few different ones and |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | Glens007 | 5/19/10 5:01 AM | I came across the same problem. I clicked on a bad internet link that installed Spyware/Malware on my system that started off crippling all browsers and disabled Chrome from displaying any web pages. Just get the loading message on the browser tab in |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | Glens007 | 5/19/10 8:23 AM | Sorry I forgot to mention that on the Combofix download page make sure you read before clicking on the link. The green download button is not for combofix but for Reimage software. Under the green button you will see the section labled Download Combo |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | imsocool123 | 6/7/10 7:36 AM | I had the same very problem so I decided to reinstall but it wouldn't saying I needed some Windows updates. Stuck with Firefox. Hopefully this problem will be solved soon. |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | geo212 | 8/26/10 11:00 AM | im having aame problem and im tired of it goin back tto fire fox and also it wont allow me to install windows meadia plug-in ive given up on chrome |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | hayzooz | 9/12/10 12:07 PM | Disabling the AdBlock extension fixed this issue for me. Use AdThwart as an alternative. |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | dandon7 | 10/1/10 5:07 AM | i had the same problem but it is solved now am talking about blank pages occur while trying to connect to a website it will be as the following try to get into the folder of Google chrome on you system try to enter the folder through the following pa |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | wanyancan.Bai | 10/29/10 5:07 AM | If you tried everything, if it doesn't open any pages, even "about:version", even when you used Ghost to restore to an old system state, and even worse if, there's no viruses reported by most antivirus, then most likely you're affected by a MBR virus |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | sasin9 | 11/11/10 7:18 PM | The fix for this problem with chrome in windows 7 is as follows: I noticed that if you rename this file C;/windows/prefetch/http://CHROME.EXE-xxxxxxxx.pf (the xxx... on mine is "44891707") Upon starting Chrome, after the rename, it will create a fresh f |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | noekidotcom | 11/13/10 11:09 AM | I had the same problem together with some other problems in other browsers (could not see flash). I even had problems with the regional language configuration (coud not type most of Spanish extended characters). Chrome worked well if no sandbox was s |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | sasin9 | 11/13/10 4:48 PM | ^ this is a different problem, the one where only chrome is broken is fixed in my post above. |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | surajjj | 11/17/10 9:23 PM | my google chrome and internet explorer 8 both of them could open any pages |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | keniapilhiasd | 1/5/11 5:15 PM | HERE IS THE SOLUTION: Delete the cache. 1. Click the wrench icon in the upper right corner of Google Chrome. 2. Options 3. Select the "Under the Hood" tab. 4. Clear browsing data 5. Select the "Empty the cache" check-box and uncheck the others (unle |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | Master Bearr | 5/8/11 7:28 PM | I think that Google should fix their web-browser |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | jkrafcik | 8/13/11 3:13 PM | I can't clear my cache, because the clear settings tries to render in another tab. Now what? |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | SadAboutChrome | 10/9/11 4:02 PM | What a disappointment. I thoroughly researched Chrome, was excited about downloading it and....nothing... blank pages, nothing will load and all the advice to make setting changes in Chrome require Chrome to load pages. I can't change settings if th |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | TTO5 | 6/12/12 2:49 AM | me too - getting fed up with it.. chrome has always been my main browser.. fine with FB but photobucket, youtube, anyhting with graphics & not real time, loads, page flashes for 1 sec then blank page.. tried the unistall, clearing history.. etc - get |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | TTO5 | 6/12/12 2:51 AM | Nah works for a few hours & does the same again... done this so many times on my mac :( |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | m.loebab | 7/2/12 10:16 PM | simple answer, just right click chrome icom propertis click shorcut tab and add -no-sandbox behind chrome.exe -no-sandbox. see what happen? |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | nileshian | 7/7/12 10:48 AM | I was using Avast antivirus, it not detected any virus when above probs happened with me, then switched to AVG but no change. Then got break through as i installed Norton, one month trail, it detects virus. So guys brand matters. |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | Devilion | 8/7/12 1:58 AM | Found the Fix! go into C:\Users\"youruser"\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default find the file named Pepper Data. delete it. this is yet again another issue with shockwave player. you delete that and it should be fine. |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | Patrickm576 | 9/19/12 2:22 PM | I may have found a fix, although I am sure there may be different issues causing the same problem for different people. What I did was open a New Tab, go into Settings, and instead of checking the box that says "On Startup: Open New Tab", I selected |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | Abdulaziz Alanzi | 10/25/12 2:07 PM | Simply just 1-save ur bookmarks 2- go to the setting 3- from the users 4- delete all the users 5- Restart ur google chrom and every things will go normal |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | Madiha.S | 10/25/12 3:21 PM | I have got the same problem. I have tried all the solution mentioned in this post. Apparently none of them has worked. |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | Guido Bakker | 10/26/12 5:28 AM | Try if chrome works in incognito mode with Ctrl+shift+N , if so one or more extensions or apps aren't working properly. Disable them one after a time and see if the page will load. It worked for me. Fast save extension did it. |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | timmmy_42 | 10/26/12 5:32 AM | Hey guys this appears to be an extension issue, please try disabling all extension then enabling them 1 by 1 to see which extension is the cause. If you find the extension that is causing it please post the name of it to help out other users. Thanks. |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | Atharva Ghaisas | 10/26/12 7:42 AM | In my case the problem was due to the extension named "Fastest Chrome-Browse faster".I just disabled the extension and the browser started working again!! Just try that out!! |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | Atharva Ghaisas | 10/26/12 7:45 AM | Also "WxDownload" extension seems to be problematic disable both of these extensions!! |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | Marc Thomas | 11/5/12 12:03 PM | I had this problem on a client's laptop. All the tabs were opening as blank pages, even the settings tab. When I right clicked on the desktop icon, I found that the program had been set to XP SP2 compatibility mode, which I then unchecked. Now works |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | Akilah khaliq | 12/16/12 3:05 PM | even when i try to open settings it shows blank page |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | Suresh Babu124 | 12/30/12 8:13 PM | when i open the google through google chrome the page immediately disappear.After that i found a solution. That is, first i clear all the browsing history and delete all unwanted extensions in chrome. this is done by going into the history page of |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | Lorri Smith | 2/2/13 11:02 PM | Thank you SO MUCH. Here it is February 2013 and, thanks to you, I have my browser back. |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | sadeepa silva | 2/18/13 3:35 AM | plz tell me in details how did you solved the issue ??//coz i'm having the same problem in my laptop and i'm nearly going crazy plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | Zailie | 2/22/13 7:03 PM | hey guys the reason mine wasnt working was because of the extension "BrowserProtect", disable it to get chrome new tabs working again. |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | lesbradley | 3/2/13 1:11 PM | I have given up using Google Chrome as it just will not work. I have uninstalled it 5 times and installed again to no avail. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | alanrick | 3/7/13 11:56 PM | Same problem here. Symptom: Pages won't load at all. Latest version of chrome installed. Works for another user on this pc. Auto-complete in address bar does work (windows connectivity) Firefox and IE10 work perfectly. Actions: Deleted history. Disab |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | alanrick | 3/8/13 12:00 AM | <This message has been deleted.> |
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| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | Chuck Ka | 3/9/13 8:08 AM | I have same problem and have tried everything listed above and still does not work. I did install an earlier verison and it worked for a while, but chrome seems to have updated itself and now it does not work again. |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | Tim Mensch | 3/13/13 3:59 PM | I similarly have a problem where Chrome won't open any web pages. Not even local web pages on this computer. All extensions are disabled. I've uninstalled an reinstalled Chrome, nuking its settings folder while it was uninstalled so it doesn't rememb |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | sgfxokc | 3/25/13 8:37 AM | Simple solution to this .. No reloading of chrome needed. close all chrome files (my need to go to task manager to be sure nothing with "chrome" is still running) In Windows 7 file explorer, type %AppData% to get to windows app data folder. then find |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | Katnip173 | 4/2/13 4:26 AM | I woke up this morning to find this exact problem. When I click the Google Chrome icon, a new tab opens up and instead of showing my new tab picture, it shows a blank light blue screen. It says "Untitled" at the top. I click on a bookmark and the URL |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | MWCarl | 5/19/13 12:26 PM | Good one sasin9, 1. Rename C;/windows/prefetch/http://CHROME.EXE-xxxxxxxx.pf 2. Start Chrome and web pages start loading again -M |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | MadeThatWay | 5/22/13 7:14 PM | I'm having a similar problem intermittently and it seems the only way around it is to keep rebooting the pc and resetting the modem. Not running any extensions, and am using WinXP and Google Chrome. Today, after visiting any single website, then leav |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | Michael MGAC | 6/10/13 8:17 AM | I am having precisely the same problem. I can open ONE tab...multiple tabs simply won't load and show blank pages. This started in March of 2013. In addition, when I close Chrome after having this issue happen...it won't restart for several second |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | Michael MGAC | 6/10/13 10:03 AM | And am I correct in assuming that the Google Chrome folks don't monitor this group, nor are they doing anything to fix this? |
| Re: Chrome won't open any pages, blank pages | funstraw | 6/16/13 9:47 PM | I disabled EXIF reader and now pages load. EXIF Reader 2.7.5.12 |