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I have noticed that none of my extensions for Google Chrome are working properly (while they were working before). When I left-click on any of the extension buttons, the menus no longer show up. Whenever I disable all extensions and then enable them again, the extensions start working again (temporarily), but they stop working again as soon as I restart the browser. Also, context menu options for each extension are no longer showing up.

Interestingly, this problem seems to affect both my Windows and Linux Chrome installations, so it appears that this isn't a platform-specific issue. Are there any known solutions to this problem? What is the most likely cause of this issue?

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what branch? dev, beta or stable? Chrome keeps the previous version around, try running that... – cjb110 Feb 8 at 10:38
Could you comment upon the solutions listed in this article. – harrymc Feb 8 at 11:34
Have you tried syncing your chrome to an account, and doing a wipe/fresh install? Perhaps the sync data is bad and it might be good to get a fresh sync going on a new account. – Enigma Feb 13 at 19:09
@Enigma All of my Chrome extensions are working again, and now I don't know why they stopped working in the first place. However, I have sometimes encountered this problem after enabling experimental settings in about:flags. Try reinstalling Chrome if this happens to be the case. – Anderson Green Feb 14 at 0:40

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Have you tried syncing your chrome to an account, and doing a wipe/fresh install? Perhaps the sync data is bad and it might be good to get a fresh sync going on a new account.

As you stated, the culprit was likely the experimental settings in about:flags which makes sense. Hard to always see the far-reaching impact changes there might have. Odd that it affected all extensions though.

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I would guess one of your extensions was doing something poorly. Then, when it updated itself and fixed the problem, your issue went away.

Next time try disabling and re-enabling one by one until you find the culprit (or a combination of extensions that don't play nice with each other).

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It's also possible that it happened because I enabled some experimental settings under about:flags. – Anderson Green Feb 14 at 23:33

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