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

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.

Thank you! I had the same problem, it went away after updating Chrome.

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.

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

In chrome, go to: chrome://restart

This should not be the accepted answer.

While it is possible, that restarting the Mac solved the issue (by giving Chrome the chance to restart and apply an update) - the key combination you was told to press is the good old "parameter ram reset".

Do you have troubles with your soundcard, your screen resolution, the start volume, etc.: Do a parameter RAM reset. Do you have troubles with software like a browser and links: This is not the way to go.

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

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

Unfortunately it does not help on the long run.

Further the restarting itself also helps, after restart it is possible to follow the links properly, however they stop reacting after a while, so it does not solve this issue.

I tried updating Google Chrome and that did not work. So then I used Wendy's suggested process and worked like a charm. Tough pushing 4 buttons at same time, though, so had my wife help me - lol. I wonder how this came to be in the first place.

Thanks for the help everyone

Hi Wendy,

Thanks the Ctrl Opt R P easter egg(?) fixed it, whatever the heck that was. I checked and my version of Chrome was the most recent so that wasn't it. I hate having to mediate between giant corporations, it's like trying to fix voicemail on an iphone between Apple and AT&T. Yikes...

Mehaara,

Note that as others have said this is a temporary "fix" (more like workaround). The same thing could happen on a future Chrome background update. Hopefully a restart will again "fix" it.

There were apparently ways to stop autoupdates, but with a quick search I couldn't find a recent description of something that works with current versions of Chrome on a MAC.

Dave

If you are talking autoupdates for Flash Player, you go to Apple System Preferences, then click on the Flash Player icon, then select one of the 3 options provided. I selected "Never check for updates) which is not recommended but I haven't had a problem since then, although I suspect that might just be coincidence.