Windows 7 Articles » Fix Google Chrome in 64-Bit Windows 7

Fix Google Chrome in 64-Bit Windows 7

Submitted by Kenneth Pennington on Thursday, 22 January 200921 Comments

Many users who’ve installed the 64-bit version of the Windows 7 Beta build 7000 are experiencing difficulties with Google’s new browser: Chrome. Users with this problem will see a blank page instead of the default homepage on load. If the user attempts to visit a website, they will see an error message: “Aw, Snap! Something went wrong while displaying this webpage. To continue, press Reload or go to another page.” See the picture below.

Users who try to navigate to a website while running Google's Chrome on Windows 7 7000 64-Bit will see this "Aw, Snap!" error message.

To fix this problem:

Go to Start. Find “Google Chrome” in the Programs list.
Right click the Chrome icon labeled “Google Chrome” and go to Properties.
Modify the “Target” field in the Shortcut tab. Add the line: “--in-process-plugins” to the back of your address.

Modify the "Target" field in the Shortcut tab to look like this.

You will need to modify the “Target” of any Google Chrome shortcut on your computer for each shortcut to work.
All done! Enjoy Chrome!

In other news, we may see Windows 7 bundled with Google Chrome. Wouldn’t that be incredible?

Share:

21 Comments »

mohitii said:

Just amazing. Thanks so much!

- 28 January 2009 at 10:31 pm

TEK said:

Hmm
Innmari bra med denne artikkelen, men plagsomt mye skrivefeil i teksten din.

For andre som lurer, det er alts

- 6 February 2009 at 1:01 pm

TEK said:

Hmm, in English.
Very good article, but an annoying amount of errors in the text.
For other that is wondering. The correct is
–in-process-plugins
and not
-i-in-prosess-plugins

TEK

- 6 February 2009 at 1:02 pm

TEK said:

Damn
–in-process-plugins

- 6 February 2009 at 1:03 pm

Kenneth Pennington (author) said:

Sorry. The blog automatically corrected my two dashes into one long dash.

The article should be fine now.

- 6 February 2009 at 1:52 pm

fmayle86 said:

Mieux que ca car si votre Chrome est par defaut sous Windows 7, la redirection des mails Hotmail par le messenger, etc vous fera aussi une page blanche. Donc je vous transmet une autre astuce plus “performante” :
1. aller dans C:\Users\Votre Nom d’Utilisateur\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application
2. clic droit sur chrome.exe
3. dans l’onglet Compatibility, cocher Run this program in compatibility mode for :, et s

Translation:

Better than that because if your default is Chrome on Windows 7, Hotmail mail redirected by the messenger, so you will also be a blank page. So I bring you another trick more “efficient”:
1. go to C: \ Users \ Your Username \ AppData \ Local \ Google \ Chrome \ Application
2. Right-click chrome.exe
3. in the Compatibility tab, check Run this program in compatibility mode for:, and s

- 18 February 2009 at 11:37 pm

Best Internet Browsers on Windows 7 | Window7s said:

[...] Fix Google Chrome in 64-Bit Windows 7 The 64-Bit version of Windows 7 is having problems with… [...]

- 8 March 2009 at 3:50 am

Jeff said:

The problem is due to an incompatability between Windows 7 64-bit and the Chrome security “sandbox” where plugins run isolated from privileged system processes.

Be aware, while whis work-around does solve the bug and allows Chrome to run under Windows 7 64-bit, it does so by allowing plugins to run as part of the main browser process, defeating one of the major security features of Chrome. Using the switch ” –no-sandbox” will have the same effect, allowing you to use Chrome on W7-64, but also by disabling the security sandbox.

The Chrome developers are working on a fix for this bug.

- 9 May 2009 at 7:22 am

Kenneth Pennington (author) said:

Thanks for the tip Jeff!

- 9 May 2009 at 8:09 am

David W said:

This dos not work for me. When I follow the instructions and add “–in-process-plugins”, I get the error “The name… specified in the Target box is not valid…”

I have gone back and reread the instructions, but it just doesn’t work.

- 10 May 2009 at 7:53 am

DeeVee said:

David W, make sure you are putting in — (two dashes) not one long one.

- 13 May 2009 at 12:47 pm

Google Chrome no Windows Seven 64bit RC 7100 said:

[...] Basta, no atalho do navegador, acrescentar a linha –in-process-plugin sem aspas após o caminho do atalho como na imagem retirada de W7Info: [...]

- 18 May 2009 at 5:35 am

LtTrotter said:

I’m having the same problem as David W. I also found out that I don’t have the folder AppData under my username. Any help would be most appreciated.

- 18 May 2009 at 3:26 pm

Kenneth Pennington (author) (author) said:

Hmm… AppData may be a hidden folder. Try typing it in the address box and navigating there.

- 18 May 2009 at 6:10 pm

embeeuu said:

I’m also getting the “name… not valid” error. Has anyone worked around this?

@fmayle86 - j’ai coche “Run in compatibility mode” mais quel OS dois-je choisir? Je comprends pas ton “s”.

- 21 May 2009 at 7:44 am

Kenneth Pennington (author) said:

Not sure what’s going wrong for some of you guys. This might be a problem in later builds of 7? This fix was originally made and tested with build 7000.

- 21 May 2009 at 12:18 pm

chicas por webcam said:

emm… luv it

- 23 July 2009 at 5:17 pm

Henrik B said:

Thanks, this really annoyed me, Chrome seems like a pretty good browser combined with Windows 7.

- 7 August 2009 at 6:11 pm

Anonlol said:

This is IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE YOU CANT DOWNLOAD IT SO YOU CANT GET THE ICON!!!

- 24 September 2009 at 1:12 pm

Vivek jacob said:

For Windows 7 64 bit (Win7 x64 RTM)
Download using the Standalone installer.. it works..

http://dl.google.com/chrome/install/195.21/chrome_installer.exe

This number may change *** /195.21/ ** depending on the version. This is the latest version as on date
- Vivx

- 12 October 2009 at 4:56 am

Phil Murphy said:

Just had this issue on Chrome with Win7 x64.
Traced it down to Windows Update KB976264 - uninstalled that, and I was back in business. Had tried most other things….

- 15 March 2010 at 2:19 am