How to open Google Chrome with extensions turned off?

Question

Chrome crashes on opening. Probably a bad extension. But how to start up Chrome with all extensions turned off?

Answer 1

thirtydot is correct, run Chrome with the --disable-extensions command-line option to disable extensions.

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Technically, it doesn’t so much disable all the extensions as much as hide them so that Chrome thinks that none are installed, so this won’t help in your particular case. t_b_b, since you cannot disable extensions in-browser and the command-line argument hides all extensions, what you want to do is to manually disable them. Open your User Data folder then open the file Preferences in a text-editor. Now scroll down to the line starting the settings blocks: "settings": { Each of the extensions will have its own block inside the settings block. To disable them, change their states to 0: "state": 1

To simplify things, just do a search for all lines containing

"state": 1

and change them to

"state": 0

Answer 2

Open an incognito window.

"If you want to create a shortcut that opens Chrome in incognito mode, duplicate an existing Chrome shortcut, right-click on the shortcut, select "Properties" and append this flag to the target value: --incognito (don't forget to add a space to separate the flag)."

Google Chrome Safe Mode

Answer 3

Run Chrome with commandline switch

--safe-plugins

This will run the plugin processes inside the sandbox and will not crash Chrome if you are sure that it is the plugins that are crashing Chrome.

Answer 4

I tried all the suggestions for launching chrome with plugins, no plugins, incognito and so forth... nothing worked. Even the menus launch a chrome page, so if chrome gives you the "aw snap" message, it really means - aw snap! You can't even get to the tools and settings.

I did a ctrl+alt+del and found chrome.exe in the task manager. Then I forced it closed, chrome finally came up again. It has something to do with syncing your gmail account when chrome launches: if that is failing, then chrome turns into chris rock.