For Ubuntu users - Instead of changing the settings within the Chrome browser, which risks propagating them to other machines that do not have that issue, it is best to just edit the.desktop launcher: Open the appropriate file for your situation. /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop /usr/share/applications/chromium-browser.desktop Just append the flag (-disable-gpu) to the end of the three Exec= lines in your file. Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable%U -disable-gpu. Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable -disable-gpu. Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable -incognito -disable-gpu. Here is what worked for me: (I got this answer from ).
Unpin Chrome icon from task bar so it is on the desktop. Right mouse click on said icon and left click on Properties.
Click on Shortcuts tab 4A. In Target window, add this exact text: space-disable-gpu' 4B. The end of the text string in the Target window should now read.chrome.exe' -disable-gpu'. Double click on the desktop icon and Chrome should open correctly. If you want, you may pin this icon to the taskbar. Left single click on the 'Customize' icon in the top right, which is the 3 horizontal lines icon. Select 'Settings' from the list.
Looks like this is on the bottom left now as an icon with overlapping windows and the. After I have placed my dock to the right (see older answers), I still found the. Otherwise Open a NEW new Chrome tab and Inspect to Dock the DevTools. What do you mean 'not in a desktop'? I am on 59.0.3067.6 (dev) and it's. The ‘Wrench’ icon is used to denote the settings menu and has been present in every release of Chrome since 2008. If you’re on the bleeding edge of Chrome development (i.e. The dev channels) then you’ll already know this; the new icon has been in place for a few weeks. But if you’re not then look out for Chrome 23.x.
Select 'Show advanced settings.' At the bottom. Deselect 'Use hardware acceleration when available.' I still experience occasional black screens with latest Chrome 60 with GPU acceleration enabled by default (probably caused by lack of free memory for numerous tabs). Sometimes it helps to kill GPU process in builtin Task manager ( Shift+ Esc) as @amit suggests.
But sometimes this forces more Chrome windows to become black while some others may remain normal. I've noticed that tabs headers and address bar of black windows remain funtional and tabs can be fully repaired just by dragging them out of black windows. But it's too tedious to do this one by one when their number is huge. So here is quick completely restartless solution inspired by:. Add a new empty tab to black window ( Ctrl+ T). Left-click the first tab in the window. Then hold the Shift key and left-click the right most tab just before the empty one.
Drag all the selected tabs at once out of the black window. Close the black window with remaining single empty tab.
How to empty Google Chrome's cache to fix the 'waiting for cache' error Posted in - Last updated Jan. 10, 2017 This post looks at how to clear the cache in Google's Chrome web browser, which you will need to do if you are experiencing the 'waiting for cache' error in Google Chrome. This is a supplementary off-topic post for this blog; normal posts are about PHP, MySQL, Javascript and HTML/CSS and there has already been a Javascript post today (@name selector is depracted in jQuery, removed in jQuery 1.3). 'Waiting for cache' errror I'd noticed when visiting Slashdot and Digg the pages would never load completely and there was a little message in the status area that appears at the bottom of the window (where link text appears) saying 'waiting for cache'. The same pages loaded just fine in Firefox. The websites you are affected by will be different from me.
After some web searches it appears to be some sort of cache corruption issue that happens, and the simple way to fix it is to clear the cache and restart the browser. Clearing Google Chrome's Cache To clear the cache in Google Chrome click the little more icon (three dots on top of each other) top right of the application window.
The menu below appears when you click it. Now click 'More tools' and after that click the 'Clear browsing data' button. The 'Clear Browsing Data' dialog will then appear as shown in the screenshot below. Most of the options will likely be checked so uncheck the ones you don't want to clear.
In the example below I've only left the 'Empty the Cache' option checked. You can then choose to clear data from just the last day, the last week, last 4 weeks or everything from the drop down box. You want to clear everything.