GitHub Not Accessible from Google Chrome

Question

Whenever I try to go to GitHub through Google Chrome 11 I get the following error message:

GitHub works perfectly fine in Firefox 4:

This has been going on for a few weeks. This is a fairly new install of Windows (I don't even remember if I've successfully got on to GitHub on this installation with Chrome in the past). I don't even use GitHub for hosting my own code personally, but this has proven annoying in that I can't even access other people's projects through Chrome!

Does anybody know what is going on here?

An interesting side note: The Sight extension for Chrome doesn't work either! It worked on my old installation of Windows but not on this one. Is my Chrome installation just screwy? I've tried disabling certain other extensions but nothing seems to change.

Solution

Ok. So here are some random things I did (simultaneously for some stupid reason so I’m not sure which thing worked) and now the problem is solved.

1. Opened up “Chrome Extensions Management” page.
2. Opened up Fiddler (which hadn’t been opened in weeks, and I have restarted Chrome many times without Fiddler open).
3. In Chrome under “Developer Mode” I hit “update extensions now.”
4. With Fiddler open, now GitHub works.
5. And now for the kicker. With Fiddler closed GitHub works again. I am sure Fiddler is not running right now and I have restarted Chrome to verify. It's working. Why would this only affect GitHub?

Comments

[slhck]

Are you sure you aren't connecting through a proxy? Interestingly, somebody had the same problem for GitHub but it has resolved itself.

[Ivarr08]

Yea, I'm at home and I don't have any proxy stuff set up.

[hadi.mansouri]

I have the same problem with chromium 69.0 :(

[SuperSafie]

Same problem here with Chrome 72.0, fails with proxy (tried http and SOCKS proxies), works with direct internet connection, works with that same proxy using Firefox. Only thing that seems to work is to disable/reenable extensions at random