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To: roadcat

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.


13 posted on 01/09/2016 4:51:28 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><> GO CRUZ!!!!)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I’m watching the posts with interest Mike. I don’t know Macs except for a couple of occasional uses. If it were a win machine my advice would be to reboot and restart chrome. If it still misbehaves I would try reloading chrome. Someone mentioned reverting to an earlier snapshot (although my success with that and win machines is pretty poor.

Do you have an alternate browser you could try (to resolve the question “is it just the browser or do I have a larger issue?”)?

Best of luck.


16 posted on 01/09/2016 5:01:34 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I don’t know what else to suggest regarding Chrome. I don’t use it myself. But it and all processes running should show in the Activity monitor. When Chrome runs, it should show several Google Chrome processes running along with a PID (process ID number as shown in the Terminal session). A shame that you don’t have Time Machine backups. In that case, I would make a copy of the Library under your logon ID (find it via Finder, alongside Desktop, Documents, Downloads etc.), copy it to a portable HD or USB stick. Buried in that Library are Logs and Diagnostic Reports, that may contain clues to what is going on. In Diagnostic Reports, you may have a Google Chrome crash report. Also make a copy of the Chrome application in your Applications folder. And in the future, run Time Machine backups to an external destination. Good luck.


69 posted on 01/09/2016 6:34:54 PM PST by roadcat
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