Problems with chrome...

by pappy
2 replies
Ok since I see here thunderbird is having issues, I have a problem with chrome that has been ongoing and I have researched every solution out there.

It cannot open a secure site without refreshing it 10 times. Something about the trust link.

Say you want to go to google.com. Google is a secure site. I cant open any other secure HTTPS
site either.

IT does not work. I have followed every conceivable solution on the internet but I have not been able to
fix it. I'm a developer (last 30 years) but this one is beyond me. Before you say contact google about 30 emails later I have, with no response from them.

I suspect its something ms did in one of their updates that screwed it up. I'm running a duel boot box
windows 7 64/ vista 32 . I've got to keep the vista box around because of some the of the development tools I'm using (and software I'm supporting). So its a pain going back in forth from 32 to 64 booting up. BTW its working in win 7 not working in vista. I'm on a very stable vista. No problems with anything except this....

There are THOUSANDS (may more) users that are having this problem with chrome. Does anyone have a clue to how to fix this?

TIA
Pappy
#chrome #problems
  • Profile picture of the author kilgore
    The first thing I'd do is to try installing Chrome as another user in Vista. I'm no desktop expert (my background is more web development and DevOps), but my understanding is that Chrome installs itself on a per-user basis in the "Users" folder rather in the centralized "Program Files" folder. If Chrome works for this other user, you know that your main user's copy of Chrome is corrupted -- or at least there's something in that user's settings causing Chrome to crap out. If not, the problem is likely Chrome conflicting with something else you've got installed globally. Hopefully with that bit of knowledge you'll have a clue about how to proceed fixing it.

    As a workaround, if you need to be able to run both Vista and Chrome and Chrome isn't working on Vista you could try running Vista as a virtual machine in Windows 7 using VirtualBox or VMWare rather than booting separately into Vista. You'd then do what you need to do on Vista and use Chrome in Windows 7. Probably a pain to set up but (1) at least Chrome would work and (2) you wouldn't have to be constantly dual-booting (which I think would be a pain anyway).
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    • Profile picture of the author pappy
      Thanks... Yeah I haven't thought about setting up another user, great idea. I will try it this week...

      I ran virtual boxes for years, the problem is with all of the different development tools I use, some do not like the vm enviro. SO... thats why I eventually went to the dual boot system.

      I really appreciate your input.
      Pappy
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