Google Chrome won't open not launching nothing

Sona - you may want to verify that you are accessing your user library, not the Mac library. Make sure you are going to Finder>Go (on the menu bar)>then holding the option key, the Library folder will show up.

In my case the issue was in the fact that 'root' was the owner user of the directory where Chrome is installed (BTW I see the same with Mozilla's directory) and therefore the account user didn't have the permission to start Chrome.

It was resolved by:

$ sudo chown -R <macAccountUserName> ~/Library/ApplicationSupport/Google

You'll be prompted to enter the Admin password at this point.

After that you can check the permission with the following command:

$ ls -lh ~/Library/ApplicationSupport

Search for the Google directory, you should see your username as the owner of the directory.

Start Chrome again. It will work.

Hope it helps others.

Regards,

Tried this solution on macOS Mojave 10.14.6 and latest download of Chrome. Did not fix the problem. In my case I used Apple Migration Assistant to migrate from a MacBook Air running macOS Mojave 10.14.6 to a new MacBook Pro running macOS Mojave 10.14.6. Chrome still runs fine on the old MacBook Air, but it won't run on the new MacBook Pro. I suspect the bug here is with Migration Assistant.

That change to the library app folder didn't do anything for my system in terms of preventing Chrome from crashing six seconds after launch. How do I make the permissions change in the Support folder?

Since I am getting this issue on new MacBook Airs I'm setting up for teachers, I have noticed a few more things...

If I simply remove the entire Google folder from the current user's Library/Application Support, then relaunch Chrome, it works fine. Since the user I'm signed into doesn't yet have anything in Google, no problem, but you may want to make a copy of the folders inside of Google before making that kind of drastic decision.

Additionally, once I logged out of the main (root?) user account (the account I used to set up the Mac), and had the user sign in with their network account, there was no trouble in their account, which it seems there would be since I'm only fixing Chrome in the user library, not the system library. I'd be curious to see if creating another account, and then launching Chrome in that new account would have the same issue. Also, after launching in the 2nd account, then going back to your original account, would anything change from doing that (in other words, would it help)?

I have more laptops I need to image and will see if I can verify that and get back to this forum.

This worked for me, but the fix doesn't necessarily need read/write privileges for admin. It just needs read/write for the individual users that will actually be using Chrome, which may be a bit safer?

I'd be nervous about granting any Google application admin write privileges!

FWIW, you could do the same thing by right-clicking on n App's icon and choose "Get Info" and change it there.

True. Of course I don't know why your permissions were wrong in the first place.

I followed these instructions and it worked!!! Thank you

I downloaded google chrome and it does absolutely nothing. No pop up Nada!

Here is what fixed it.

Open a finder window or click on the Desktop.

Hold down SHIFT+COMMAND on keyboard then press the letter G (⇧⌘G)

In the new window that just popped up copy and paste this ~/Library/Application Support

Then click Go

In the new window that popped up find the folder named "Google"

Right click on the folder and select Get Info

In the Get Info window click on the lock in bottom right corner

Enter your login password (you need to be an admin) and press enter

Click the + button on bottom left

From the drop down click on Administrators

Then click on select

At the bottom of window you should now see admin Under "Name"

To the right of amin click on "read only" and change to Read & Write

Now click on the setting cog and select Apply to enclosed like this

Click OK from the drop down.

Now try to open Google Chrome from the applications folder. This worked for me I hope it works for you.

I have been trying to fix this for WEEKS. You are my hero! Thank you so much! 🙂

You are the man! Works perfectly. The instructions provided were the most clear and concise I have ever experienced. Thank you

PERFECT! Thank you so much, worked like a charm! 🙂

Thank you. I had to run this a few times as it wouldn't 'take' but the third time it did work. cheers. Wouldn't normally need Chrome but one website cannot run phone calls through safari...