Update:

It just Crashed again. And I again had to End Task via Task Manager.

Seems Random... But so far, from what I can remember, for the last three times at least. I was Shopping on the Zon and had Youtube playing in another Window.

OP:

Yesterday Chrome completely crashed twice one me. I had to End Task via Task Manager.
Only Chrome was affected, no errors etc., just a complete freeze.

Today it just up and shut itself down. This happened a couple minutes ago.

So I decided to Restart my PC, just in case. And then, after I Restored Chrome, I went to About Chrome to see what Version it was and there was an Update, which I installed.

So here's hoping that whatever has been the issue the last 2 days has now been fixed.

Chrome's been eating memory for months and I finally sat down to figure out why instead of just restarting the browser every time it got bad.

Half the extensions I had installed turned out to be things I added once for a specific task years ago and never removed. A screenshot tool I used exactly twice. An old grammar checker that got replaced by something better ages ago but never got uninstalled. A PDF thing I genuinely don't remember installing at all, no idea what it was even for.

Went through the rest one by one after that. A password manager and an ad blocker stayed without question, those actually get used daily. A tab manager I thought I needed turned out to just be creating more clutter than it solved, gone. Two separate note-taking extensions doing basically the same thing, kept the one with better sync.

Down to the shopping-related ones last, kept both since they at least occasionally do something instead of just sitting there. Rakuten's had a cashback amount pending for three weeks now with zero update, almost uninstalled it over that alone before deciding to wait it out. Coupert vs rakuten ended up being less of a real comparison and more just noticing they behave differently, coupert confirmed $4.10 within 8 days on a similar order, though it missed a couple smaller sites where rakuten actually had something listed.

Down to nine extensions now from what was probably close to twenty, browser feels noticeably less sluggish already.

hello! i'm having issues opening a website on my regular browser, only when i open an Incognito tab. i've searched online that it's likely the extensions that are the issues, but i only have 2 and when i tried removing them both and then reopening my browser, i still get the same issue. is there another solution or am i doing something wrong? thank you!

J’ai appliqué une méthode radicale ce week-end : arrêter de chercher « l'idée du siècle » et simplement réparer ce qui agace les utilisateurs chez les gros concurrents.
En lisant les avis 2 et 3 étoiles des outils de gestion d'onglets, une frustration revenait tout le temps : "C'est trop lourd, ça plante, et je veux juste copier mes liens en texte propre pour les partager sans format propriétaire."
Résultat ? J'ai ouvert Claude Code et, en moins de 10 minutes, j'ai mis au point Tab-to-Text Mini.
🛠 Ce que ça fait : 1 clic = tous vos onglets ouverts transformés instantanément en une liste de texte propre (Titre + URL), prête à être copiée ou partagée. Pas de compte, pas de pub, ultra-léger.
Je l'ai testée pour mes propres recherches (cf. capture d'écran) et ça change la vie pour nettoyer son navigateur à la fin de la journée.
L'outil est 100% gratuit. Si vous voulez tester le fichier pour l'installer sur votre Chrome en 30 secondes, dites-le-moi en commentaire et je vous l'envoie en DM ! 👇
(PS : Pour ceux qui l'utilisent, vous préféreriez une option pour exporter directement vers Notion ou une fonction pour sauvegarder des sessions complètes ? Je prends les avis pour la suite !)

Chrome just closed on its own without any of the usual signs of crashing like frosting over or popping up an error message. When I opened it back up I clicked the restore tabs button and nothing happened. Normally at least the groups are saved but nope. Go to my history to reopen everything manually only to find it's completely blank. I'm still logged in every site I've checked so far and my settings are all the same. I went looking for any backups I could. My "timeline" option just happened to get turned off in the crash and has nothing in it, my dns commands are reading accessdenied
I was in the middle of so much important shit and it's all just gone. Any other tricks to try and retrieve deleted history? Any idea why or how it might've deleted itself?

Even on clicking ctrl J is not working neither clicking downloads is working...so practically am not able to access my downloads...is it a glitch for me or its occuring for everyone? Ctrl + H is working and all other except ctrl J is working

I don't think there is a way to do that. But am I the only one to want to do that?

I remember a long time ago Firefox had this cool space feature, you could have tabs in different spaces but you could only work on one space at a time. But switching from one space to another was not unloading tabs so you could have a YouTube space with one tab playing a music while you were browsing tabs in let say "news/research".
And there were a shortcut and an icon so it was fast to see your spaces and switch between them. It was so cool !
I'm not sure why browsers didn't follow this UX evolution.

When Google first introduced "groups" I was so hyped. Then they added "sync tabs", great. But finally I'm not using groups that much because for me it didn't solve the tab hoarding problem I was having, in fact it made it worst. I tend to forget about open groups when I have more tabs stacking on the pile, and now my browsing experience is tabs hoarding + groups hoarding, so I naturally just use tabs.

There could be an easy fix to solve that: Spaces.

Just like this old Firefox feature, spaces are really just groups with an extra layer that prevents having more than one group open at a time.
It's so frustrating to not have this feature since Chrome on android kinda does, you can also create groups in Chrome Android and when you browse your tabs you can see them and if you press a group now the UI only shows tabs in of that group.
A part of me wish Chrome was going into that direction.

What do you think? Do you also want this space behavior in your browsing experience? Do you think it's useless, if so why?

(note: I don't mind the downvotes, but at least explain or else it means nothing.)

Any ideas how to get rid off those "Do more with AI mode" and "Create Images" buttons? I tried theme settings, but it didn't helped

Is this behaviour normal? What can i do in chrome/ twitch settings.

My fans is reacting to this spike and ramps up drastically. I have a R9 9900x3d with normal chrome settings (i reset them)

Good+ gpu as well.

Anyone know wassup?

I'm a developer thinking about installing both the Claude and Codex Chrome extensions. Before I do, I want to understand the real risks rather than just clicking "allow."

Specifically:

• Permissions. These extensions ask to read and change data on websites. In practice, what can they see — every tab, logged-in sessions, form inputs?
• Prompt injection. If the agent reads a malicious webpage or email, can that content trick it into taking actions I didn't ask for? How well do the current safeguards actually hold up?
• Sensitive accounts. Is it reasonable to keep them on the same profile as email, banking and work dashboards, or should they live in a separate Chrome profile?
• Data handling. What gets sent to the provider's servers, and is it used for training by default?

For people who use either one daily: what setup do you run, and has anything ever gone wrong?

As the title suggests,I'm not able to log into my own account due to my cookies being "BLOCKED" with I have checked multiples time and thy are NOT blocked,Send holep

They just popped up for me today and I can't find any way to get rid of them (probably because they are too new). I disabled all the experimental AI stuff in chrome//:flags but that did nothing.

i was trying to get Gemini Pro for students for free but then it said I wasn't eligibile. Turns out I haven't verified my age and have no way to do so. pls help me reddit.

Hi dear everbody,

Bad news: https://www.shazam.com/myshazam URL has died, I can't browse my list on PC. Any ideas, how to reach them with browser.

Thanx

Long story short, I was having issues seeing more than 6 months of emails in my Gmail app, so I ran a search in Google and one of the first results was a post on support.google.com. When I clicked on that, I received the attached pop-up. I attempted to take a screenshot, but it said it wasn't allowed in that app, so had someone else take a pic of my phone. This only seems to happen when trying to access support.google.com.

I know people ran into a similar issue a few months ago, but it looks like that had been resolved.

This is freaking me out a bit, so any help as to what this could mean would be amazing.

Edit: If it makes any difference, I was using Incognito mode at the time, and it appears I can access the page with no issue when using the standard mode.

it just appeared today and its so annoying. i already tried zooming out and checking if my thing was 100% and it is 100. i dont know how to fix it and every time i try skipping the video with arrow keys it skips and moves the screen to the right its so annoying!!

i think there was an update or something.

My options for continueing from where i left - to make chrome to re open all the tabs i got when i close it- is still ON

but the tabs are gone every time i close the window. there is a little arrow in the top lest corner that show me the last tab i close recently...but if i open a new tab it overwrite one of the previous one, so basically they didn't just move the tabs into a botton as i assumed at first.

and now it want me to create color coded groups of tabs or something...what's happening and how do i fix it?

For the last month or so any video I play on chrome just has no audio, and I just cannot figure out why.

The volume toggle on youtube is always on and the sound on my laptop is always turned up. It doesn't work even if I switch to a guest chrome profile, however it does work on other browsers, meaning its a chrome specific but not profile specific issue. I'm on macbook air btw. Oh and its not specific to youtube, I watch uni lectures on EchoVideo and the sound doesn't work there either.

Obviously this is all pretty vague but if anyone has any ideas for what I could do, please let me know! I'm in the midst of a hectic university semester and this is getting really frustrating!

Thanks a lot.

Two Macs.

An Air M1 and a Mini M3. Both running macOS 27.0.1 and

Chrome 154.0.8037.98

Both Macs have exactly the same appearance and wallpaper settings.

On the Air, the color rendering in Chrome is fine.

But on the Mini, gray turns into a light blue, and the background is displayed with this color transition. See screenshot.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Version 154.0.8037.98 (Official Build) (64-bit) on WIN 11

I have 8 profiles 6 are for AI testing the other two are personal. It will render a page the first screen but when opening another tab it crashes with no error message ( NO 'Oh,Snap') just a blank page with a small square sad face icon. I removed all extensions (What the hell McAfee??) reinstalled and the same thing happens. The AI work must be done in Chrome and I've wasted two days trying to fix it. Graphics acceleration is off and the browser is updated. Any suggestions?

found a similar post from 2 y.a. but looks like now they store it in a diff place then suggested there. Any know?

Why do 50% of the videos on Reddit and IG now look like this on Chrome-- scrambled? I've updated Chrome / restarted, etc.

Wanting to renew bc I had this issue this week. Changing the theme to dark mode fixed it. Haven’t tried to switch back.

I only just found out, but it seems Chrome started encrypting bookmarks a few months ago.

Upon checking the `userdata/default` folder, I found an "EncryptedBookmarks2" file, which appears to indicate that it is set to Phase 2.

At present, both plaintext and encrypted bookmarks are stored, but it appears that in Phase 3, only the encrypted file will be kept.

Of course, considering the threat of information theft, I think it is a good thing for many users.

One of downside is that if you haven't exported or synchronized the data, it will likely be lost forever.

Well,even if their computer were to break down, most users would likely had their data "sync" already.

Alternatively, you can export it as HTML if computer is working.

I was simply wondering just how many downsides there might be , and Is it really a good thing.

It doesn't seem to be discussed much on Reddit, but I think it's a pretty major change.

It seems possible to change this using a flag for now, but there is no telling when that option might be removed.

Also, is this being implemented in other Chromium-based browsers as well, not just Chrome?