I have noticed that none of my extensions for Google Chrome are working properly (while they were working before). When I left-click on any of the extension buttons, the menus no longer show up. Whenever I disable all extensions and then enable them again, the extensions start working again (temporarily), but they stop working again as soon as I restart the browser. Also, context menu options for each extension are no longer showing up.
Interestingly, this problem seems to affect both my Windows and Linux Chrome installations, so it appears that this isn't a platform-specific issue. Are there any known solutions to this problem? What is the most likely cause of this issue?
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Have you tried syncing your chrome to an account, and doing a wipe/fresh install? Perhaps the sync data is bad and it might be good to get a fresh sync going on a new account.
As you stated, the culprit was likely the experimental settings in about:flags which makes sense. Hard to always see the far-reaching impact changes there might have. Odd that it affected all extensions though.
I was facing the same issue. Here is what I did to solve it:
Close the Google Chrome browser
Go to task manager and do "end task" wherever you see "Google Chrome"
That's it. Restart the browser and everything should work properly again.
If this solution is not working for you then disable the extensions, then follow the step 1 and 2, and re-enable the extensions again.
I also faced same issue after my computer has shut down unexpectedly. When I restarted my computer, my Chrome extensions, bookmarks, history, cookies etc. stopped working.
I think root cause was that my user profile was corrupted. So i followed steps mentioned in the below link to create new user profile. One important step to remember is that do not forget to take back-up of old Default folder as mentioned in the steps in below link.
Now here comes the trick. I open the browser which created new Default profile and hence all my previous settings were gone. I was worried. I did not wanted to install all extensions again and restore my bookmarks again. So i did the trick.
I closed the browser. I went back to same folder where new Default folder was created. Then I renamed this new folder to "Default - New". And i copied the old corrupted Default folder back again.
To my surprise when I opened Chrome browser, it asked me to Restore the chrome and clicking the button within a second everything was fine. That's trick saved me and so i thought of sharing with other.
I would guess one of your extensions was doing something poorly. Then, when it updated itself and fixed the problem, your issue went away.
Next time try disabling and re-enabling one by one until you find the culprit (or a combination of extensions that don't play nice with each other).
2I get this problem every few weeks. I would disable and enable as you did, but that didn't always work or just worked temporarily. I found one solution on Google that said my user profile probably got corrupted. I followed the instructions and everything came back. However, I did lose my scores in Bejeweled for Chrome. There probably was a way to avoid that but now at least I can hit a high score again with greater frequency. :)
That was a couple of weeks ago and already my extensions stopped working again. However, it was the only thing that solved my Chrome printing problem (after printing to a file, I was always asked for the outgoing file even though I wanted to send it to the printer).
2If your windows is not up to date then the extensions will not function properly as before. I had re installed windows on my laptop, when i used google chrome, none of the extensions were operational, but after windows update, I was able to use the services of extensions.
type "chrome://flags/#enable-npapi" on the site bar and press enable on npapi. then reboot. Then in the same place type chrome:plugins. Enable Adobe Shockwave player and click the box "Always allowed to run".
Does your browser update automatically? If your browser updates and your extensions are incompatible for some reason, they won't work correctly.
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