When I clink on links in Mail, opens blank Chrome page

Mac Tech Support just had me do this, which worked like a charm: shut down the Mac. Get ready to press command, option, R, and P at once. Click the power button and immediately hold all four of those keys down together for 15 seconds (or, if earlier, until you hear the second start-up sound). Then log back in, and your email hyperlinks should work again.

The solution is to update Google Chrome. This issue popped up on both my desktop and my laptop at the exact same time.

I went to Chrome / About Google Chrome which launched the Chrome Settings page.

There I noticed that an update was still pending. When I completed the update (relaunched Chrome) links clicked in Apple Mail now work correctly.

A recent update to anyone not following the Chromium thread, Chromium team is currently choosing not to implement a fix because the design is too risky. They are waiting for Apple to fix this at the OS level, at how the data (the URL) is passed into the application while an update is pending. Realistically, this probably means you won't see a fix for several more months, unfortunately.

Again, the workaround is to restart Chrome to let the autoupdate apply, and then it will work for as long there isn't an automatic update pending. Once it reaches this state again, the issue will be exhibited again.

If you update Chrome, this issue should be resolved. I just upgraded to Chrome 62.0.3202.75 and it's working again.

It is not specific to a version of Google Chrome.
Chrome is waiting to be relaunched because of an update.
Just go to About Chrome page and do an update or relaunch which ever it shows to do.

First: The answer is there already - please update and restart Chrome!

Second: To keep all your open tabs, just close Chrome (CMD-Q) and reopen it. You'll be able to reopen the tabs that were open before you killed Chrome at "History > Recently Closed > Restore all Tabs"

Alternatively you can use "Bookmarks > Bookmark all Tabs (Shift-CMD-D)" in order to create a bookmark list of all open tabs to recover them later.

This recently started to happen on my Macbook w/High Sierra 10.13.1.

I saw the post regarding the fix - restart and hold down 4 keys but that wasn't necessary for me.

I needed to update my Google Chrome. Once the update was complete, problem solved.

The temporary fix is just quitting Chrome, and then relaunching it. This is why updating Chrome, zapping your PRAM, reloading chrome, etc all seem to work, because they all cause the browser to quit and relaunch. Do not yet know the cause, but to get working again you just need to quit the browser.

While an nvram reset seems a bit illogical troubleshooting step - I can confirm this solved for me as well. Running 10.13.2 High Sierra and Chrome 64.x that is up to date. Command + Option + P + R on boot at 2-3 times.

I had the same problem. Speaking with Airmail tech support, they had me switch my default browser to Safari in Mac preferences. I did that, and the links worked. Only, I didn't want Safari to be my default browser. So, I switched it back to Chrome, and like magic the links were opening correctly within Airmail again.

The issue lies in Chrome itself. Any links clicked open a brand new window with just the 'new tab' page open, regardless of where the link came from (emails,webpage etc..)

in chrome, go to: chrome://restart

that will fix the issue.

Thank you. This started occurring a few weeks ago, and updating Chrome fixed 'er right up.

Fixed this issue by acessing "About Google Chrome" and clicking on the "relaunch" button on the right side of pending update.

All I had to do was reboot (without zapping the P-RAM). FWIW I had a *lot* of Chrome tabs open and hadn't rebooted in several days. But just shutting down and restarting the Mac did the trick.

If this still happens with latest version of Chrome, quit the browser completely (hold cmd + Q) and reopen. It fixed this issue for me every time.