Instructions coverChrome OS, macOS, Linux, and Windows platforms.

Advanced parameters: Reset Google Chrome

First, open your Google Chrome web client.

Select Chrome’s main menu button in the upper-right corner of your web client window.

The More menu in Chrome

When the drop-down menu appears, selectSettings.

Scroll to the bottom of the page and pressAdvanced.

Scroll down and selectRestore tweaks to their original defaults.

Settings in Chrome

What Can Happen

If resetting Chrome makes you nervous, it’s with good reason.

With all of this virtual dominion, however, come some inherent pitfalls.

A screenshot of Chrome settings with the Advanced heading highlighted

The “restore settings” option

The Reset Settings button

The “Help make Chrome better” checkbox