HOW TO: Google Plus Not Loading

For the last couple of days, I’ve had this issue with Google Chrome not loading Google Plus.  With this on the heel of the search bar conking out, I was starting to get a tad miffed

I’d navigate to Google Plus in my browser to make a post, or research a person who added me, and the site would load, if only for a second, then return to a blank screen. It didn’t do this with Firefox, or IE, just Chrome

I tried the standard fare:

• Clear all of Chrome’s data (ctrl + shift + del)
• Restart my machine
• Uninstall Chrome
• Reinstall Chrome
• Coo softly at my laptop and hope that it will load

So after giving a week, I decided that it may be worth Googling, especially considering that I was getting tired of browser hopping.

Lo and behold, Whitson Gordon over at Lifehacker happened to have my solution. It turns out that this was a profile issue in Chrome and all I had to do was open Chrome with a new user profile.

Here’s what Gordon prescribed as the fix:

• In Windows 7 (since I am a Windows guy), navigate to: %localappdata%\Google\Chrome\Userdata
• Look for a folder named “Default”
• Rename it (Gordon uses “Backup Default”
• Reopen Chrome and navigate to trouble site

That got my back up and running, and hopefully will for you too.  If you’re looking to fix a similar issue, but you’re on a Mac, or are using a Linux distro, Gordon’s written up instructions for those OS’s as well.

Bon chance and happy computing!

Aaron