Google Chrome Full Black Screen

Question

I'm facing a weird problem.

If a webpage includes jquery graphs or libraries the page loads with a full black screen. I can see the source code and the mouse pointer finds the buttons or links. I uninstalled and reinstall chrome with the latest version but still no chance.

Answer 1

I still experience occasional black screens with latest Chrome 60 with GPU acceleration enabled by default (probably caused by lack of free memory for numerous tabs).

Sometimes it helps to kill GPU process in builtin Task manager (Shift+Esc) as @amit suggests. But sometimes this forces more Chrome windows to become black while some others may remain normal.

I've noticed that tabs headers and address bar of black windows remain funtional and tabs can be fully repaired just by dragging them out of black windows. But it's too tedious to do this one by one when their number is huge.

So here is quick completely restartless solution inspired by Merging windows of Google Chrome:

• Add a new empty tab to black window (Ctrl+T)
• Left-click the first tab in the window
• Then hold the Shift key and left-click the right most tab just before the empty one
• Drag all the selected tabs at once out of the black window
• Close the black window with remaining single empty tab

Answer 2

Here is what worked for me: (I got this answer from https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/MJjuK65Exkg)

1. Unpin Chrome icon from task bar so it is on the desktop.
2. Right mouse click on said icon and left click on Properties.
3. Click on Shortcuts tab 4A. In Target window, add this exact text: [space]--disable-gpu" 4B. The end of the text string in the Target window should now read: ...chrome.exe" --disable-gpu"
4. Double click on the desktop icon and Chrome should open correctly. If you want, you may pin this icon to the taskbar.
5. Left single click on the "Customize" icon in the top right, which is the 3 horizontal lines icon. Select "Settings" from the list.
6. Select "Show advanced settings..." at the bottom.
7. Deselect "Use hardware acceleration when available."

Answer 3

i have resolved this by following steps.

1) Go to customise icon in the top right corner chrome.
2) click on more tools option.
3) Click task manager.
4) Kill/end process GPU process

This has resolved my issue of black screen in chrome.

Answer 4

You didn't mention anything about the environment you're running. This problem occurs on VirtualBox when running on Windows 10. One thing you can try is disabling 3D Acceleration on your VM, this is a known issue.

https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/14985

Answer 5

For Ubuntu users - Instead of changing the settings within the Chrome browser, which risks propagating them to other machines that do not have that issue, it is best to just edit the .desktop launcher:

Open the appropriate file for your situation.

/usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop
/usr/share/applications/chromium-browser.desktop

Just append the flag (-disable-gpu) to the end of the three Exec= lines in your file.

...
Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable %U -disable-gpu
...
Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable -disable-gpu
...
Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --incognito -disable-gpu
...

Answer 6

Same thing just happened to me on Google Chrome v22.0.1221.1 (Nvidia GPU). The workaround was to disable GPU compositing on all pages (setting available on chrome://flags/)

If it happens in Chrome version > 45.x, See answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/32955808/293023 by @detale.

Use google-chrome -disable-gpu from the command line to temporary disable gpu.

Answer 7

If it happens in Chrome version > 45.x,

(1) try: System | Settings | Advanced settings
     uncheck "Use hardware acceleration when available", restart chrome.

(2) If (1) doesn't help, restart your computer

(3) If the black screen still occurs, try Chrome Cleanup Tool to reset your chrome.
     https://www.google.com/chrome/cleanup-tool/

Answer 8

if you can't see the chrome://flags because everything is black, and you don't want to revert your graphic driver as @wilfo did, then you can run google-chrome --disable-gpu from the console.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/chromium-doesn%27t-work-after-update-4175522748/

Answer 9

Disable Nvidia's nView Desktop Manager and the problem should resolve.

Answer 10

All google chrome extensios crashed and then black screen on the window for my case.. tried uninstall and installed.. but no use..
Finally I restarted the computer.. It worked for me.. And i disabled adblock on google homepage. works pretty cool.

Answer 11

You can turn off GPU usage by Chrome without Windows restart in safe mode. Options:

1) by inserting section in Chrome config file "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Local State":

"hardware_acceleration_mode": { "enabled": false },

2) chrome.exe --disable-gpu

Answer 12

I had the same problem, on Ubuntu though, started just over a month ago. What did it for me was to revert my Nvidia driver back to its stable version (I've been using the alleged unstable version for a couple of months now).

Anyway, it's worth a shot: Open "System Settings" and under the "Hardware Tab" go to "Additional Drivers". You should see on the list a driver called: "Nvidia Binary Xorg Driver..." - activate it.

Hope this helps to Ubuntu users out there..

Answer 13

You are probably using an AMD/ATI graphics card. If so go to Catalyst Control Centre and switch Chrome to use only the Intel HD graphics (power saving). It is a problem with Chrome 18 and it is being fixed shortly (as advised by google six hours before this post)

It fixed after switched the graphics card in Catalyst, then restarted the computer.

Answer 14

If you have the Adblock extension, make sure you add the domain into the exception list. I had that problem with Google Analytics