Authored by: Support.com Tech Pro Team
Despite the huge improvements in the new Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome is still the most popular browser out there. It is fast, reasonably secure, and works well. But sometimes you might experience google chrome not working after Windows 10 update. The browser crashes repeatedly, displaying the message ‘Aw snap! Something went wrong while displaying a webpage.’ A number of users report similar issues, chrome browser not responding, High CPU usage by Google Chrome. The browser became unstable at startup, Take time to load the home page, and more. In such cases, you can uninstall Chrome on your device, and reinstall Chrome to fix the crash issues but If this trick doesn’t work apply the solutions listed below.
There are a lot of reasons these behaviors can occur, it’s chunk with browser history or internet cache, the browser extensions, chrome profile corrupted, you are running outdated chrome browser, and more. Again Sometimes Chrome can crash if it is low on memory as well.
If you find google chrome not opening, browser crashes or freezes randomly on your Windows 10/8/7 computer, while browsing, opening a tab, loading a page, or downloading Here are the simple fixes for common Chrome crashes and how to get your browser back to a stable state.
If Google Chrome is not responding, the issue might be your DNS cache. open the command prompt as administrator and perform the following command one by one.
Apply if google chrome won’t launch:
Sometimes, because of false-positive, a security program might block Chrome, and this is why it’s not able to launch properly. You can either disable such software or completely uninstall them to see if Chrome can open.
When you open web pages chrome keeps caching your browser history, cookies for a faster browsing experience. And there are chances the older cache, cookies interrupt the loading of the page. Let’s first clear Clear Cookies, Browsing History and Cache on Chrome.
Another common issue that causes Chrome to crash or freeze is malicious extensions. Let’s remove the extensions to check if this fixes the problem.
Try to get rid of the things you added most recently first, and then try using Chrome for a while after removing each one. You might find the offender without removing all.
If you still can’t solve this problem with Chrome, you might want to reset it to default. This is relatively simple and you can do it by following these steps:
If the above methods were of no use to resolve the Google Chrome not working on your system, then try to modify some of its settings. This method is appropriate for those who have to open Chrome with the Windows Security Shield mark. So follow the steps given below to open the .exe or shortcut file of the browser to run it as an Administrator.
There may be an issue with the Chrome browser profile. Thus, it becomes unavoidable to uninstall Google Chrome from the installed programs and then re-install it.
Still need help, disable the hardware acceleration option because it can interrupt a straight connection of a website on Chrome.
Again if the chrome user profile is corrupted you might experience different problems including the browser not responding, stopping working, or won’t launch. Let’s rename the current profiles folder, thus Chrome generates new profiles in no time and the problem will not exist anymore.
Again sometimes corrupted system files cause the chrome browser to unstable. Run theSystem file checker utilityto make sure corrupted, missing system files not causing the issue.