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

This was finally fixed by Apple in 10.13.4.

Chromium team confirms this is the case: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=777863#c90

Glad this has finally been resolved.

Found on Google Chrome support:

Click on the 3 vertical dots ("Customize and control Google Chrome" when you hover over it).

Click Help / About Google Chrome / RELAUNCH

That solved this issue for me, which seemed to only pop up after the latest High Sierra update (Jan 2018).

NOTE: I did *NOT* lose any of my open Chrome tabs when I did this. Easy fix!

skater953 wrote:

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.

Once again, the problem will return as soon as Chrome downloads another newer version in the background. Your advice is not especially useful as it does not solve the root of the problem nor prevent it from recurring the in the future.

Please note that clearing your NVRAM / PRAM has absolutely nothing to do with this issue and is an overused "fixall" piece of advice that is 100% unrelated to this issue.

I am going to continue to link to my earlier post so it doesn't get buried. The Chromium team has acknowledged this bug and they are working on it. Updating your build of Chrome is not a long-term solution until the root bug has been fixed. Please do not reset your PRAM for this reason.

Check my reply above also. You need to confirm the auto upgrade in the About page and restart chrome.

Also what also seemed to work for me was to make sure that I was properly signed into my various accounts after I had cleared my browsing history.

So the solution seemed very simple in the end.

Note, I am using the latest versions of all MAC, Chrome, and Microsoft software.

Well, I thought I had the problem solved using Ctrl Opt R P but it is back again. So I did the Command Q and problem solved again, at least for now. Kind of annoying but so far this seems to be the easiest remedy so far.

Folks replying to this thread are either not reading my earlier posts or not believing them.

Do not reset your PRAM. It has literally nothing to do with this issue.

Chromium engineers are aware of this issue, and the problem will continue to occur each and every time Chrome runs an update in the background. It's as simple as that. Restarting the application will workaround the issue, but the problem will reoccur the next time an update is pending.

Do not reset your PRAM. It is not an "easter egg" as you have called it. It has literally nothing to do with this issue.

Just update your web browser (google chrome) and you'll be fine.

Annoying for sure.. if anyone sees an update that fixes this please pass it along.

The Restart of Chrome at least does solve it temporarily and it's not intrusive at all.

Just update your web browser (google chrome) and you'll be fine.

Once again, the problem will return as soon as Chrome downloads another newer version in the background. Your advice is not especially useful as it does not solve the root of the problem nor prevent it from recurring the in the future.

Ithink the issue is not only with Chrome, I have it also with Microsoft apps, like Word, etc.

When clicking on a Word file, the Word opens, nut does not open the file, you have to start it first with black document.

Only after clicking again on the document (after the Word had already been started like that) the Word opens that document. The same wioth Excel, etc, maybe with other apps as well.

It seems to be Mac OS issue, as it is not limited just to Chrome.

I'm sure this has been resolved, but here's what I did.

1. Click on the 3 dots in upper right corner of the Chrome browser
2. Go down to Help, click on About Google Chrome
3. Under About Google Chrome click on Reload (I think that's what it was called, it is not there anymore on mine)
4. It closes the browser then reopens it up with all the pages that were there when it shut down.
5. Try to open a link from an email. It worked for me.

This does not fix the problem, I'm on version 64.0.3282.186 and it still persists.

In chrome, go to: chrome://restart

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.

Wendy, this worked for me too. Outlook now opens properly.

Also, this fix restored some of the icons that were no longer displaying in the menu at the side of the screen which had disappeared when I updated the OS about a week ago.

In summary, my iMac seems to be working fine now.

Thanks