Oct 10, 2019

Chrome Crashing on Catalina

My chrome keeps crashing whenever I open it after I updated to Catalina. Tried reinstalling and restarting mac.

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User 17207791410591108873

Oct 11, 2019

installing the beta version of chrome seems to have solved this problem.
also, might need to delete the content within your home directory: ~/Applications/Chrom*

Arvind Menon

May 6, 2020

FOLLOW THE BELOW METHOD FOR THE FIX !!!!! TRUST ME IT'S 100% WORKING.

Before removing Chrome, you need to ensure the browser isn't running. If the program is in your Dock, right-click Chrome, then click Quit.
Open Finder and click the Applications folder, which may appear in the Favorites panel on the left-hand side of the Finder window. Otherwise, open the File menu at the top of the screen, click Find, then search for "Google Chrome."
To uninstall the browser, drag the Google Chrome icon into the Trash icon in your Dock. Alternatively, right-click the icon, then Move to Trash.
If the application is still running when you attempt to uninstall it, a Force-Quit Applications window will open. Ensure Google Chrome is highlighted, then click Force Quit.
To remove Chrome from your Mac, right-click the Trash icon in your Dock, then click Empty Trash.

Removing Google Chrome's Profile Information

Chrome stores profile information, bookmarks, and browsing history on your Mac. This data may be helpful if you intend to install Chrome at some point in the future. However, if you'd like a fresh installation of Chrome, or you want to remove all remnants of it, you'll need to delete this data too.

Open Finder and, using the menu at the top of the screen, navigate to Go > Go to Folder.
Enter ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome, then click Go.
The data generated by Google Chrome is stored in this folder. Depending on your usage, this folder may be quite large. Once removed, the data is permanently deleted, so ensure you have backed up any necessary files before continuing.
Select all folders inside Library/Application Support/Google/Chromeand move them to Trash. To do this, either right-click the selected folders then click Move to Trash or drag them into the Trash icon in your Dock.

After removing the contents, download the fresh DMG file of google Chrome from their official website and install it. It will then run smoothly.

User 7515009234496164446

May 21, 2020

The only way that's works for me:

Install Chrome beta

Open Terminal

sudo open /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app

Last edited May 21, 2020

Root Beard-42

Jun 9, 2020

Had the same issue when I upgraded to Catalina. I managed to fix it by:
1) Clearing the the Google chrome cache (https://crunchify.com/how-to-purge-all-your-google-chrome-user-data-on-mac-os-x/)

2) Fresh install of Chrome

3) From there I disabled all plugins and slowly enabled plugins one by one.

Cheers.

Jknicks

Jun 13, 2020

I’ve tried everything mentioned above and no solution. Any other tricks?

wammy

Jun 19, 2020

Hi.

Same here (and it's also the same with Brave Browser), but I may have found a workaround.

Launching from a Terminal does the trick for me:

- open Terminal (under Utilities)

- type:

open -a "Google chrome.app"

- you may close the terminal (Command+Q)

I really don't know how this is different from launching from the dock or the Applications list...

Please comment if it works for you too, might be interesting for solving this!

Gabriel Pizano

Jul 6, 2020

If you run it with sudo it works. Permissions are the problem. Not sure which of them.

Lukas Blaschko

Aug 1, 2020

Well the solution to this problem depends ... if you are running Catalina on unsupported mac as I do from dosdude1. Use the Patch Updates to reinstall SIP Disabler Path. Then you need to reboot and after that the stupid Google Chrome will start working again.

Rory Sheridan

Aug 11, 2020

This last solution worked for me, thanks!

Felipe Román

Aug 22, 2020

@Lukas Blaschko you rule, thank you very much, it worked perfectly (reinstall SIP disabler path)

Tom Lam 968

Sep 20, 2020

@Felipe Roman, can you tell me what exactly you did that worked? thanks.

User 18304022811611323466

Sep 21, 2020

II tried downloading the beta it didn't work every time I try opening it crashes IDK what to do.

Lucas O'Connell

Sep 29, 2020

@Lukas Blaschko Can you please elaborate on how to use the patch updates to reinstall the SIP disabler patch (I assume you made a typo and mean patch rather than path here).

I tried restarting in recovery mode (holding cmd-R on reboot), then going to macOS Post Install in the Utilities window that pops up. From there I have the option to install the SIP Disabler Patch (amongst other patches from dosdude1). However, I already had these installed so I don't think that I've changed anything.

Can anyone say if this is correct approach? Any help here would be appreciated.