Google has released a minor Google Chrome update that fixes the worldwide browser crashes occurring since Thursday on Windows 10 and Linux.
On Thursday, many Windows 10 users suddenly found that Google Chrome extensions and tabs were crashing, as shown in the image below. It was later learned that Linux users were affected by this issue as well.
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In addition to the extensions crashing, users found that they could not access the browser’s settings, extensions page, or that browser tabs were showing a gray screen.
To fix the issue, users began reinstalling the browser or wiping their Google Chrome ‘User Data’ folder, but this could lead to the loss of data if users did not back up the folder or if the browser was not synchronizing with Google.https://www.ad-sandbox.com/static/html/sandbox.html
Yesterday, Google released a small update that resolves the crashes and has shared the following fix with BleepingComputer.
For impacted Windows devices follow these steps:
For impacted Linux devices follow these steps:
.config/google-chrome/
[Chrome user profile]
\Origin Trials subdirectory
[Chrome user profile]
\Local State file
While Google has not officially stated what caused the crashes, based on the fix above, it appears that an Origin Trial experiment was causing the crashes pushed out to a subset of Google Chrome users.
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It is not known what experiment was causing Google Chrome to crash, and we have reached out to Google for further information.