Security News > 2021 > May > Google Chrome fix released for worldwide crashes on Windows 10, Linux
Google has released a minor Google Chrome update that fixes the worldwide browser crashes occurring since Thursday on Windows 10 and Linux.
On Thursday, many Windows 10 users suddenly found that Google Chrome extensions and tabs were crashing, as shown in the image below.
To fix the issue, users began reinstalling the browser or wiping their Google Chrome 'User Data' folder, but this could lead to the loss of data if users did not back up the folder or if the browser was not synchronizing with Google.
Yesterday, Google released a small update that resolves the crashes and has shared the following fix with BleepingComputer.
After 5 minutes quit Chrome and then relaunch Chrome.
While Google has not officially stated what caused the crashes, based on the fix above, it appears that an Origin Trial experiment was causing the crashes pushed out to a subset of Google Chrome users.
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