Why Google Chrome resets its settings?

Question

Sometimes Google Chrome resets its settings. My bookmarks are not deleted, but the bar and the homepage button are hidden and many of my settings (homepage, automatic translations, ...) are reset.

I have no installed extensions.

What could it be?

Answer 1

Is this a home or work computer?? Some work places have policies to delete profiles and therefore no customization stay. If you are at home make a backup and then uninstall and reinstall.

Answer 2

Its wierd that you have this problem on your home computer. Nevertheless, try this if the system you are using is a un*x distro ( e.g. any linux distro) :

1. Open any terminal

2. Google chrome saves its configurations in ~/.config/google-chrome directory. You can try to remove this directory to some safe place say your desktop and start afresh or you could try changing the permissions and ownership of the directory, by running the commands

   chown yourusername ~/.config/google-chrome -R  
   chmod u+rwx ~/.config/google-chrome -R 
   

(On seeing any errors while running above commands use sudo and rerun that command. If the system you are using is windows you can search the web for the location where google-chrome saves its configurations. It should be in local settings folder in your username's folder. Move that folder to some safe place say your desktop(in case something goes wrong later) Now start the chrome and customize it as you wish and it should work.

Answer 3

I had the same problem. I created new profile for my chrome, but it didn't work and the problem didn't solve. But, I opened internet options and changed my homepage to www.google.com and voila, the problem solved. even after restarting the PC.

I think this problem happened to me because of the change in the homepage! and the point is I had never changed it. (my homepage automatically had been set at: wwww.startpage.com)

So, check your homepage. If yours is the same as mine, change it. It worked for me.