Add them one by one then run Chrome for a while and add another. While most of them will be quite stable, some do have unintended consequences. If anything causes Chrome to crash it will be extensions.

If you can get Chrome running without crashing while signed in and using your old bookmarks or new versions of them, begin reinstalling your old extensions. Then you know which one created the issue. Add your bookmarks individually until Chrome begins crashing again.

Export your bookmarks somewhere else on your device and perform the uninstall and reinstall once more.

Work your way through them gradually until you find the setting causing the instability.

If it works fine, you know it was a setting.

Run the Chrome Cleanup Tool again and allow it to reset all those settings.

You may want to reset everything but there isn’t much in the settings app that can cause repeat crashes so I tend to leave it alone.

It will then open up Chrome Settings and allow you to reset everything should you wish to.

It will tell you if it finds anything wrong.

Run the tool and let it scan your system.

Download and install the Chrome Cleanup Tool.

It’s a pretty good tool and well worth trying. It checks your Chrome install to see if there are instabilities, bad extensions or anything within it that would cause crashing.

Remove that element or reinstall it and retest.Īs Chrome has a record of crashing in earlier builds, Google created the Chrome Cleanup Tool. If it sees a conflict it will tell you what it is. The top line will either say ‘No conflicts detected’ or ‘Conflicts detected’ in the blue box close to the top of the page. The browser will scan its operating environment for issues and report back. Open Chrome and type ‘chrome://conflicts’ into the URL bar.

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