Google Chrome not starting

Question

I am running 14.04 with latest update 3.13.0-30-generic. After restarting post update I found that Google Chrome is not launching. I am able to launch Google-Chrome from command line but if I close the terminal window the chrome window closes too! A new icon appeared in launcher so I locked into launcher but after closing the terminal window (the one used to launch Chrome), the icon does not relaunch chrome.

I also found that the incorrect app name appear up in the menu "SecuStore" instead of "Google Chrome"

Solution 1

I was able to fix this by deleting all files in /home/USERNAME/.config/google-chrome/ which forces Google Chrome to regenerate all configuration and profile files. You should be able to do this with a single command:

rm ~/.config/google-chrome/*

Keep in mind that this will delete all of your bookmarks and settings. So (hopefully!) you have them synced with your Google account or backup somehow.

You can change folder's owner.. it worked for me sudo chown username ~/.config/google-chrome/... Good luck.

Solution 2

I had the same issue when I run google-chrome from terminal,

I found that it needed a new version of NSS: Chrome 62 need NSS>=3.26. So I installed libnss3.

$google-chrome

[6999:7036:1113/200616.549496:FATAL:nss_util.cc(632)] NSS_VersionCheck("3.26") failed. NSS >= 3.26 is required. Please upgrade to the latest NSS, and if you still get this error, contact your distribution maintainer.
Aborted (core dumped)

sudo apt-get install --reinstall libnss3

and it started working.

Solution 3

I could not get Chrome to start if I downloaded the installer from Google's website. But, I found that if I used the terminal command sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable it installed and worked.

Comments

[DiGwork]

OK solved:</p> 1) Open you file browser ("Files" in the launcher)</p> 2) Then go up to "edit" in the top of screen menu bar and select preferences.</p> 3) Then tick "Show hidden and backup files"</p> 4) Go back to your file browser and scroll down to ".local" and open the folder.</p> 5) Then open "share" folder.</p> 6) Open "applications" folder.</p> 7) Select every folder with chrome in it's name and trash (empty trash)</p> 8) Open the launcher "Search your computer and online sources" App in the launcher and search for Google Chrome and launch... </p> ...problem solved!

[David Foerster]

Please don't add answers as comments. You can post answers to your own questions and delete your own comments, if you feel they're obsolete.

[SDsolar]

Ctrl-H is an easier way to make it show hidden files.

[SDsolar]

Drat. I found the file but it still gives me the spinner then just quits.

[SDsolar]

Nope. Same result. Spinner but no start.

[SDsolar]

Here it is 2017 and that is not found, nor any other variation I tried.

[Kshitij Soni]

sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable is worked for me in 2017 .thanks

[x-code]

cool... this doesn't deletes my bookmark.. this should be the correct answer, since bookmarks are crucial (which I have tons)...

[Tabish]

Awesome. This work for me. I had issue with chrome 63 and latest chromium browser with Ubuntu 14. It resolved for both the browsers.

[Onik]

Admire your effort!

[JRulz]

Had the same issue, when I click Google Chrome it will appear and disappear quickly. Reinstalling libnss3 solved the problem for me. Thank you very much.

[Sisir]

@SDsolar use sudo rm -rf ~/.config/google-chrome/* It will delete all files and folders under google-chrome folder