How to open Google Chrome with extensions disabled / turned off?

Question

Google Chrome is crashing when I try to open it. I'm assuming that it's probably a bad extension that's causing the problem.

How can I start up Chrome with all extensions disabled / 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

Per http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/

--bwsi Indicates that the browser is in "browse without sign-in" (Guest session) mode. Should completely disable extensions, sync and bookmarks. ↪

Answer 5

This Chrome extension disables all extensions temporarily:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-extensions-tempor/lcfdefmogcogicollfebhgjiiakbjdje?hl=en

I have tried it and it works well, but not sure if it disables them in the manual sense @synetech says they should for debugging...

Answer 6

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.

Answer 7

You might need to delete the locally stored user profile. Try this:

1. Open the window of the user you want to delete. (Check the icon in the top corner to make sure you're in the right user)
2. Click the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar.
3. Select Settings.
4. In the “Users” section, select the user that you want to delete.
5. Click Delete.

Alternatively, you can click the X icon to the right of the user. In the confirmation dialog that appears, click Delete.