Chrome randomly crashing.

Duff

Hey guys,

Not sure if this is the right place but over the past week or so, Chrome will randomly just close. Since yesterday it's also developed a problem where I'll be browsing a webpage and all of a sudden the page will just go turn white and it'll take a few refresh attempts to get it back to normal. Any ideas?

Cheers.

DopeTech

Duff wrote: »

Hey guys,

Not sure if this is the right place but over the past week or so, Chrome will randomly just close. Since yesterday it's also developed a problem where I'll be browsing a webpage and all of a sudden the page will just go turn white and it'll take a few refresh attempts to get it back to normal. Any ideas?

Cheers.

Have you downloaded/installed anything new in the last few days? Have you ran an antivirus scan and adware scan like malwarebytes?

You could also uninstall chrome and install it again to see if that fixes it. Are you on windows 7,10?

Duff

Sorry should've said. No, I haven't downloaded anything at all recently. There is an extension called SearchMe that somehow got installed that I can't seem to delete no matter how many times I disable it from the extensions menu. I'm running Mac OS X on a Macbook Pro. It's relatively new (5 weeks old) so haven't installed/ran any adware/malware scans yet. Any recommendations? Thanks.

DopeTech

Duff wrote: »

Sorry should've said. No, I haven't downloaded anything at all recently. There is an extension called SearchMe that somehow got installed that I can't seem to delete no matter how many times I disable it from the extensions menu. I'm running Mac OS X on a Macbook Pro. It's relatively new (5 weeks old) so haven't installed/ran any adware/malware scans yet. Any recommendations? Thanks.

Uninstall chrome and reinstall it. Not overly familiar with macs but go to applications and try find that searchbar application and remove it also.

Duff

Cheers, I'll give that a go. Is there anyway to back up bookmarks etc before uninstalling?

Whosthis

Duff wrote: »

Cheers, I'll give that a go. Is there anyway to back up bookmarks etc before uninstalling?

Once you've signed into your Google account in chrome they should all be backed up to that. Just sign in again when you've reinstalled and all your bookmarks and preferences should be restored.

DopeTech

Duff wrote: »

Cheers, I'll give that a go. Is there anyway to back up bookmarks etc before uninstalling?

All tied to your google account as far as I know so once you sign back in it'll pull them in. Only problem with this is it may install that searchbar too.

Whosthis

FrostyJim wrote: »

All tied to your google account as far as I know so once you sign back in it'll pull them in. Only problem with this is it may install that searchbar too.

If he's unable to remove the searchbar now then it's probably an extension that was installed from outside the Google app store, pretty sure chrome will only reinstall extensions from within the app store.

Duff

Re-installed Chrome and everything seems to be running smoothly so far. The Searchme extension was still there when I re-installed it however. I've disabled it from the menu but can't seem to find it in my applications to delete entirely.

Whosthis

Do you have a torrent client installed on the Mac?

Duff

Yes, UTorret?

Whosthis

The search me extension was probably bundled with the utorrent installation. Have a search for searchme extension removal, you'll probably find lots of people with the same issue and somebody will have figured out how to remove it.