Fix: Google Chrome Is Unresponsive - Relaunch Now

By Timothy Tibbetts

"Google Chrome is unresponsive, relaunch now?" is an error that can happen when trying to open a link from an external program in Google Chrome. We've bumped into it using email clients including Mozilla Thunderbird and here's how we solved it.

For us, we just had to clean our cache, history, cookies, and other temporary files. Another, more obvious option is to close and restart Google Chrome. Of course, most drive cleaners will close your web browser when cleaning, so two birds and all that.

We suggest using Wise Disk Cleaner or possibly CCleaner. At the time this was written, we used the junk files cleaner in HiBit Uninstaller. Save your work and close Google Chrome before cleaning.

Optionally, you can clean your Google Chrome temporary files by following these steps:

1: Click Menu (3 dots) in the top right corner and select Settings, and scroll to Advanced. Look for Clear browsing data under "Privacy and security."

2: Click on Clear Data.
3: Restart Google Chrome.
4: If all else fails, you might try another browser to see if the error continues.

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