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How to open Google Chrome with extensions disabled / turned off?

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 2026484623 views
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Google Chrome is crashing when I try to open it. I'm assuming that it's probably a bad extension that's causing the problem. How can I start up Chrome with all extensions disabled / turned off?

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thirtydot is correct, run Chrome with the command-line option to disable extensions. Technically, it doesn’t so much disable all the extensions as much as hide them so that Chrome thinks that none are installed, so this won’t help in your particular case. t_b_b, since you cannot disable extensions in-browser and the command-line argument hides all extensions, what you want to do is to manually disable them. Open your User Data folder then open the file in a text-editor. Now scroll down to the l…

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