How to open Google Chrome with extensions disabled / turned off?

thirtydot is correct, run Chrome with the --disable-extensions command-line option to disable extensions.


Technically, it doesn’t so much disable all the extensions as much as hide them so that Chrome thinks that none are installed, so this won’t help in your particular case. t_b_b, since you cannot disable extensions in-browser and the command-line argument hides all extensions, what you want to do is to manually disable them. Open your User Data folder then open the file Preferences in a text-editor. Now scroll down to the line starting the settings blocks: "settings": { Each of the extensions will have its own block inside the settings block. To disable them, change their states to 0: "state": 1

To simplify things, just do a search for all lines containing

"state": 1

and change them to

"state": 0

Open an incognito window.

"If you want to create a shortcut that opens Chrome in incognito mode, duplicate an existing Chrome shortcut, right-click on the shortcut, select "Properties" and append this flag to the target value: --incognito (don't forget to add a space to separate the flag)."

Google Chrome Safe Mode


Run Chrome with commandline switch

--safe-plugins

This will run the plugin processes inside the sandbox and will not crash Chrome if you are sure that it is the plugins that are crashing Chrome.