This is a new problem around 9:45 this morning, after Chrome was
working normally as late as 9:30. On my Windows 10 desktop, I clicked
a link in an email from the New York Times to launch Chrome. On the
tab I just get the "wait" spinner and "Loading". (The same link opens
just fine on my Windows 11 laptop.)
This occurs with one tab open, and any other link I try.
Troubleshooting steps I tried:
* It's only the Win 10 desktop: On my Windows 11 laptop, Chrome loads
and runs normally.
* Firefox on the Windows 10 desktop loads links normally. (I do jave Javascript turned off, so some sites don't work properly.)
* Launching Chrome and trying to open a bookmark, in Task Manager I
see 11 Chrome processes, 15.7% CPU usage, 233 MB memory use, 0%
network use, and power usage "very high".
* Resetting modem and router didn't help.
* Windows Security ran earlier today and didn't find anything. I hit
the Chrome three-dots menu and "About", and it did indeed do an
update, but that didn't fix the problem.
* Tried rebooting: no change in Chrome behavior.
* A Malwarebytes scan found nothing.
* In Chrome I hit Ctrl+Shift+Del and cleared the cache. No
improvement.
* Tried rebooting again, just in case. No improvement.
Any suggestions of something else I should try, other than just
dumping Chrome?
Well, I thought I had a fix, but it didn't pan out.
I thought the Reading List feature was the culprit.
In Chrome, you can save (a link to) any Web page for later reading by right-clicking on a tab and selecting "Add Tab to Reading List". To
access the saved reading list, hit the three-dots and select
Bookmarks and Lists » Reading List. It takes almost no time to add
something to the reading list, but considerably more time to read it
and perhaps remove it, so the reading list tends to grow over time.
On my Windows 11 laptop, which is synched to the problematic desktop
via my Google account, I read and deleted maybe 20 items from the
reading list, then tried Chrome on the Windows 10 desktop. Surprise!
it seemed to be working properly again.
Unfortunately, after deleting even more from the reading List on the
windows 11 laptop, Chrome on the Windows 10 machine is again unable
to display any bookmarked web page that I give it.
The troubleshooting steps I tried are below. Google doesn't have
anything recent on this problem. Anyone have any suggestions for what
I should check to (hopefully) resolve this?
This is a new problem around 9:45 this morning, after Chrome was
working normally as late as 9:30. On my Windows 10 desktop, I clicked
a link in an email from the New York Times to launch Chrome. On the
tab I just get the "wait" spinner and "Loading". (The same link opens
just fine on my Windows 11 laptop.)
This occurs with one tab open, and any other link I try.
Troubleshooting steps I tried:
* It's only the Win 10 desktop: On my Windows 11 laptop, Chrome loads
and runs normally.
* Firefox on the Windows 10 desktop loads links normally. (I do jave Javascript turned off, so some sites don't work properly.)
* Launching Chrome and trying to open a bookmark, in Task Manager I
see 11 Chrome processes, 15.7% CPU usage, 233 MB memory use, 0%
network use, and power usage "very high".
* Resetting modem and router didn't help.
* Windows Security ran earlier today and didn't find anything. I hit
the Chrome three-dots menu and "About", and it did indeed do an
update, but that didn't fix the problem.
* Tried rebooting: no change in Chrome behavior.
* A Malwarebytes scan found nothing.
* In Chrome I hit Ctrl+Shift+Del and cleared the cache. No
improvement.
* Tried rebooting again, just in case. No improvement.
Any suggestions of something else I should try, other than just
dumping Chrome?
This is a new problem around 9:45 this morning, after Chrome was
working normally as late as 9:30. On my Windows 10 desktop, I clicked
a link in an email from the New York Times to launch Chrome. On the
tab I just get the "wait" spinner and "Loading". (The same link opens
just fine on my Windows 11 laptop.)
This occurs with one tab open, and any other link I try.
Troubleshooting steps I tried:
* It's only the Win 10 desktop: On my Windows 11 laptop, Chrome loads
and runs normally.
* Firefox on the Windows 10 desktop loads links normally. (I do jave Javascript turned off, so some sites don't work properly.)
* Launching Chrome and trying to open a bookmark, in Task Manager I
see 11 Chrome processes, 15.7% CPU usage, 233 MB memory use, 0%
network use, and power usage "very high".
* Resetting modem and router didn't help.
* Windows Security ran earlier today and didn't find anything. I hit
the Chrome three-dots menu and "About", and it did indeed do an
update, but that didn't fix the problem.
* Tried rebooting: no change in Chrome behavior.
* A Malwarebytes scan found nothing.
* In Chrome I hit Ctrl+Shift+Del and cleared the cache. No
improvement.
* Tried rebooting again, just in case. No improvement.
Any suggestions of something else I should try, other than just
dumping Chrome?
Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote:
This is a new problem around 9:45 this morning, after Chrome was
working normally as late as 9:30. On my Windows 10 desktop, I clicked
a link in an email from the New York Times to launch Chrome. On the
tab I just get the "wait" spinner and "Loading". (The same link opens
just fine on my Windows 11 laptop.)
This occurs with one tab open, and any other link I try.
Troubleshooting steps I tried:
* It's only the Win 10 desktop: On my Windows 11 laptop, Chrome loads
and runs normally.
* Firefox on the Windows 10 desktop loads links normally. (I do jave Javascript turned off, so some sites don't work properly.)
* Launching Chrome and trying to open a bookmark, in Task Manager I
see 11 Chrome processes, 15.7% CPU usage, 233 MB memory use, 0%
network use, and power usage "very high".
* Resetting modem and router didn't help.
* Windows Security ran earlier today and didn't find anything. I hit
the Chrome three-dots menu and "About", and it did indeed do an
update, but that didn't fix the problem.
* Tried rebooting: no change in Chrome behavior.
* A Malwarebytes scan found nothing.
* In Chrome I hit Ctrl+Shift+Del and cleared the cache. No
improvement.
* Tried rebooting again, just in case. No improvement.
Any suggestions of something else I should try, other than just
dumping Chrome?
I don't use Chrome. However, something I'd look at is a difference in
the suite of add-ons between Chrome and Firefox. Try using Chrome in
its safe mode (no add-ons): load Chrome (without visiting a web site,
just the about:blank page), and press Shift+Ctrl+I, More tools, start in
safe mode. I think Ctrl+Shift+N also restarts Chrome in its safe mode.
On Thu, 16 May 2024 15:37:42 -0500, Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote:
Well, I thought I had a fix, but it didn't pan out.
I thought the Reading List feature was the culprit.
In Chrome, you can save (a link to) any Web page for later reading by right-clicking on a tab and selecting "Add Tab to Reading List". To
access the saved reading list, hit the three-dots and select
Bookmarks and Lists » Reading List. It takes almost no time to add something to the reading list, but considerably more time to read it
and perhaps remove it, so the reading list tends to grow over time.
On my Windows 11 laptop, which is synched to the problematic desktop
via my Google account, I read and deleted maybe 20 items from the
reading list, then tried Chrome on the Windows 10 desktop. Surprise!
it seemed to be working properly again.
Unfortunately, after deleting even more from the reading List on the windows 11 laptop, Chrome on the Windows 10 machine is again unable
to display any bookmarked web page that I give it.
The troubleshooting steps I tried are below. Google doesn't have
anything recent on this problem. Anyone have any suggestions for what
I should check to (hopefully) resolve this?
I've had this happen a couple of times recently with Vivaldi, also
a Chromium-based browser. IIRC, the first time I cleared the User Data\Default\IndexedDB, which, for me, had a couple of folders that
pertained to the uBlock Origin extension. The second time, I
believe I cleared the User Data\component_crx_cache and the User Data\GrShaderCache folder. I have no idea what's causing Bookmarks
not to open, but in both cases, it did fix the problem.
On Thu, 16 May 2024 15:55:11 -0500, Allan Higdon wrote:
On Thu, 16 May 2024 15:37:42 -0500, Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote:
Well, I thought I had a fix, but it didn't pan out.
I thought the Reading List feature was the culprit.
In Chrome, you can save (a link to) any Web page for later reading by
right-clicking on a tab and selecting "Add Tab to Reading List". To
access the saved reading list, hit the three-dots and select
Bookmarks and Lists » Reading List. It takes almost no time to add
something to the reading list, but considerably more time to read it
and perhaps remove it, so the reading list tends to grow over time.
On my Windows 11 laptop, which is synched to the problematic desktop
via my Google account, I read and deleted maybe 20 items from the
reading list, then tried Chrome on the Windows 10 desktop. Surprise!
it seemed to be working properly again.
Unfortunately, after deleting even more from the reading List on the
windows 11 laptop, Chrome on the Windows 10 machine is again unable
to display any bookmarked web page that I give it.
The troubleshooting steps I tried are below. Google doesn't have
anything recent on this problem. Anyone have any suggestions for what
I should check to (hopefully) resolve this?
I've had this happen a couple of times recently with Vivaldi, also
a Chromium-based browser. IIRC, the first time I cleared the User
Data\Default\IndexedDB, which, for me, had a couple of folders that
pertained to the uBlock Origin extension. The second time, I
believe I cleared the User Data\component_crx_cache and the User
Data\GrShaderCache folder. I have no idea what's causing Bookmarks
not to open, but in both cases, it did fix the problem.
Thanks, Alan. I do have the uBlock Origin extension, but among the
176 subfolders under IndexedDB I don't see anything that looks like
uBlock Origin. Do you know what I'll be losing if I delete all those
folders -- I'm guessing first-party cookies, so I may lose site
settings and persistent logins?
Hmm .. I know the problem began this morning, and only two subfolders
are dated today: chrome-extension_cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm_0.indexeddb.leveldb
and
https_developer.chrome.com_0.indexeddb.leveldb
I'll bet the first one relates to uBlock Origin, because when I
disabled and re-enabled that uBO a few minutes ago Chrome started
working okay again. If the problem recurs I guess I'll try moving
those two folders somewhere outside the Chrome hierarchy to see if
that makes a difference.
I don't seem to have either User Data\component_crx_cache or
User Data\GrShaderCache .
Are you using version 1.57.0 (Stable Build) of uBlock Origin?
After I switched from the Development Build, located at https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-development/cgbcahbpdhpcegmbfconppldiemgcoii
to the Stable Build at https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm,
I haven't had the Bookmarks problem again.
That may just be a coincidence.
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