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How to Fix White Screen & Blank Pages on Google Chrome
Disable hardware acceleration and clean your browser to fix Chrome blank page issues
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Updated onOctober 17, 2024
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Chrome white screen issues usually happening because of hardware acceleration issues, corrupt browser files, outdated software, or conflicting extensions.
To start with, make sure you update and restart your browser. If none of these work, you’ll have to move to the more advanced fixes below:
How can I fix Google Chrome’s white screen problems?
1. Uninstall and reinstall Google Chrome
We know that reinstalling Chrome may feel drastic, but it only takes 2-3 minutes and after logging back into your account, all the settings and bookmarks will be back as if nothing happen.
Completely uninstalling and reinstalling Google Chrome will fix this problem. Right after reinstalling it, make sure you also install its latest update.
2. Turn off hardware acceleration and background apps in Safe mode
3. Clear cache to fix Chrome opens to a white screen
If clearing the cache doesn’t work in normal mode, use the first steps in the previous solution to start Chrome in Safe mode first.
4. Rename the User Data folder
5. Disable all extensions
If the white screen in Chrome doesn’t appear anymore, enable the extensions one by one until you recreate the problem and identify the one responsible for it.
Now, you can remove that extension and safely allow the rest.
5. Reset the browser
6. Edit the shortcut target to fix page loads and then goes blank on Chrome
These are all the ways you can quickly resolve Google Chrome’s white screen in Windows. Sometimes this issue affects just a single website, and we wrote about that in ourTwitch white screen in Chromeguide.
Also, find out what to do ifChrome is not responding or workingor if you encounter aChrome untitled erroron your PC.
Did you manage to fix this problem with a different solution? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Matthew Adams
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He is passionate about the tech world, always staying up-to-date with the latest and greatest. With an analytical view, he likes problem-solving, focusing on errors and their causes.
In his free time, he likes to read and write about history and tries to always develop new skills.
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