


disabled as shown in following screenshot: If you try to check extensions list, you’ll notice that the Extensions option present under More Tools menu in Chrome 3-dots Menu is grayed out i.e. Since no extensions are loaded, you’ll not see new Extensions menu button (Jigsaw puzzle piece icon) in Chrome toolbar. You can now pin the new Chrome shortcut to Taskbar or Start Menu for quick and easy access. All installed extensions will be disabled and no extension will even load in background. Click on Apply button and now whenever you’ll launch Google Chrome using this shortcut, it’ll open without any extension. Remember there must be a blank space between existing text string and the appended string.ģ. Now add following text at the end of the string present in Target text box: Right-click on Google Chrome’s shortcut (present on desktop, start menu, taskbar, etc) and select Properties.Īlternatively, you can create a new shortcut of Google Chrome and open its Properties box.Ģ. If you also want to launch Google Chrome with all extensions disabled, following steps will help you:ġ. Google Chrome comes with a built-in command-line parameter or flag which can be used to start Chrome without any extension. Launching Google Chrome with all extensions disabled is very easy task. If Chrome launches fine and you don’t face any browsing issue, it’ll be clear that the issue was occurring due to an extension and you can uninstall or remove the culprit extension. You can find out whether the issue is occurring due to an extension by launching Chrome without any extension. It might be possible that a malicious extension or add-on got installed in Chrome and causing these issues to you. For example, you installed a few extensions in Chrome and after some time when you tried to launch Chrome, it started crashing.Īlso you may face browsing issues such as automatic redirects, etc. Many time you may face this issue in any web browser. You can consider it as a safe mode or troubleshooting mode in Chrome browser. Using this method, no extension will load in Chrome and you’ll be able to start Chrome without any 3rd party extension. In this tutorial, I’ll tell how to force Google Chrome to launch with all extensions disabled or turned off. It was crashing at startup so he wanted to launch Chrome with all installed extensions disabled. The reader was facing issues with installed extensions and his Chrome browser was not opening at all. Recently a reader asked me about opening Google Chrome web browser without loading any installed extension or add-on.
