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I have created a separate question Google Chrome completely unresponsive on the problem that may be fixed in this way.

The browser cannot open any page, not even the settings, plugins and addons pages.

Using the incognito window has the same problem, maybe because some plugins are still used (or loaded).

I think addons are userprofile-specific, as indicated in the solution to the question How to open Google Chrome with extensions disabled / turned off? indicated as the one to which this may be a duplicate.

Therefore, I need to try to start with no plugins (and this one is no duplicate).

Is it possible to start Chrome in safe mode or something so that no addons or plugins are used?

(I mean start the browser already with all those disabled, because, as presented in the other question linked above, I cannot access settings nor plugins because NO window works, NOT EVEN Settings (chrome://settings/), About Google Chrome (chrome://chrome/) or Downloads (chrome://downloads/)!)

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Source List of Chromium Command Line Switches

--disable-extensions Disable extensions.

--disable-plugins Prevent plugins from running

You might also find the following useful:

--debug-plugin-loading Dumps extra logging about plugin loading to the log file

How to add these options to a Chrome shortcut

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  • Right click on your Chrome shortcut
  • Select Properties.
  • Add to the end of the Target field --disable-extensions --disable-plugins

It will look like:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" /high-dpi-support=1 /force-device-scale-factor=1 --disable-extensions --disable-plugins

  • Click on OK
  • Start Chrome.
DavidPostill
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Create a .bat file

taskkill /F /IM chrome.exe 
taskkill /F /IM iexplore.exe
taskkill /F /IM googleupdate.exe
taskkill /F /IM outwit-hub.exe

start chrome --disable-extensions
Jason Aller
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Uber Kontrol
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You can quickly launch a fresh instance of Chrome without any modifications from extensions or stored settings:

macos

/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --no-first-run --no-default-browser-check --disable-extensions --disable-plugins --user-data-dir=/tmp/chrome_temp --new-window about:blank

Windows

C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --no-first-run --no-default-browser-check --disable-extensions --disable-plugins --user-data-dir="%TEMP%\ChromeTemp" --new-window about:blank

explaination

  • no-first-run → Skips Chrome's first-run setup.

  • no-default-browser-check → Prevents Chrome from prompting to be set as the default browser.

  • disable-extensions → Disables all extensions.

  • disable-plugins → Disables all plugins.

  • user-data-dir="%TEMP%\ChromeTemp" → Forces Chrome to use a temporary profile instead of existing user data.

  • new-window about:blank → Opens a blank page upon launch.

Luhn
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You could use the command line option --disable-plugins to disable plug-ins.

Other possible solutions to the apparent problem are rebooting your system, clearing your browser cache, running an anti virus system check, attempting an update, attempting an installation repair (if Chrome has that feature), and doing a full uninstall and reinstall.

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