Open the Activity monitor, it’s in the Applications/Utility folder. Sometimes you can find a process hogging up all the CPU time, it may be a process associated with Chrome. Select the process, then kill it by selecting View/QuitProcess from the toolbar menu for Activity monitor. The beachball spin should go away, and you’ll be able to force quit Chrome. It may be an extension or process recently added that is causing problems for you.
the beachball isn’t spinning. Chrome isn’t actually running. It doesn’t appear in the activity monitor window.
It tried to launch. didn’t and now won’t. All the while, its icon remains in the Force Quit applications window.
I’ve never opened the Utility folder before. It appears I have at least a half dozen “google helpers” .. is that normal? My machine runs very slow, but I have no idea what’s causing it.
Also, any idea how I can get spotify not to be part of the start up? I love techies who understand this stuff. All I know how to do is turn the machine on/off.