Chrome has lost its shine for me. I just wasted a few hours trying to get my wife's machine running. She is not a heavy internet user and uses it primarily for email, the odd Skype chat and streaming a radio station. So yesterday, Chrome started to misbehave. It simply wouldn't work. The picture above showed with the message:
The following page(s) have become unresponsive. You can wait for them to become responsive or kill them.
The following page(s) have become unresponsive. You can wait for them to become responsive or kill them.
So what to do. At first I thought it was the machine. It is an old one with Vista and Celeron processor. I ran a registry cleaner. I cleaned out the cache and cookies. When that didn't work, I uninstalled Chrome, and re-installed. Then it wouldn't even start. I uninstalled it again, and ran the best virus and malware program that I have. It ran all night. Nada. The machine was clean.
I tried Internet Explorer. It worked just fine and relatively fast. I suspected that Google made an update to Chrome. I spent an hour or two Googling. A Google site suggested that I navigate to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\ and change Default folder name to backup Default. Nothing.
Another suggestion was to append --no-sandbox in the shortcut panel to the command line. Nada again.
I was just about to give up, when I tried this one last thing:
- Right click google chrome shortcut.
- Click on properties menu itme.
- Click shortcut tab in the opened panel.
- add this in target destination --disable-hang-monitor
to make it look like this:
"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --disable-hang-monitor
This made Google Chrome work again. But it sure took the shine off of Chrome for me.