Issue 231685 in chromium: Grey screen, untitled tab, upon opening chrome browser

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Status: Unconfirmed
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Labels: Type-Bug Pri-2 OS-Windows

New issue 231685 by mobility...@coles.com.au: Grey screen, untitled tab,
upon opening chrome browser
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=231685

From chrome://version
Google Chrome 26.0.1410.43 (Official Build 189671) m
OS Windows
WebKit 537.31 (@146258)
JavaScript V8 3.16.14.9
Flash 11.6.602.180
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.31 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Chrome/26.0.1410.43 Safari/537.31

URLs (if applicable) : ALL
Other browsers tested:
Add OK or FAIL after other browsers where you have tested this issue:
Safari 5:
Firefox 4.x:
IE 7/8/9: OK

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Opening chrome
2. navigating to any webpage (even local chrome pages (i.e. Settings)

What is the expected result?
Being able to see the web page that should have been loaded

What happens instead?
grey/blue screen with "untitled" tab or "new tab"

Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if
possible:

> running SawBuck log viewer. an error is thrown when trying to
> execute "browser\child_process_launcher.cc", line: 294, message: "Failed
> to launch child processes"
> opening chrome using --no-sandbox and --allow-no-sandbox-job circumvents
> this issue.

Attachments:
Chrome Grey Screen.png 60.2 KB

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Comment #1 on issue 231685 by laura.mc...@gmail.com: Grey screen, untitled

tab, upon opening chrome browser
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=231685

The easiest fix I found (and simplest for those who have fears of messing
in the C: drive) was to locate the chrome icon in the lower right-hand
taskbar (by the clock for windows users - you may need to click to expand
more icons or open chrome to update the icons in the taskbar). Once you
locate the icon, right-click and uncheck "allow chrome to run in the
background". Now reopen your chrome browser. Things should be working
smoothly from there! Hope this helps those who are panicking!

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #2 on issue 231685 by nikola....@gmail.com: Grey screen, untitled

tab, upon opening chrome browser
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=231685

Bug seems still to be present in v32.0.1700.102m .... The workaround above
resolved the issue.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #4 on issue 231685 by wyd...@gmail.com: Grey screen, untitled tab,

upon opening chrome browser
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=231685

Ok, suspect issue 395861 holds the answer --disable-gpu works. Although
it's not a black screen we're getting, as suggested by 395861 (it's grey as
per this issue). It is however a pair of Matrox display adapters we're
using, hooked up to 10 screens.

395861 looks to be fixed (worked around) in M36 and M37 and we know it's
working in Canary so I'm assuming since we're running v36 already this will
be pushed in a later intermediate M36 update due soon, but if not we'll get
it in M37?

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #6 on issue 231685 by tammyjon...@gmail.com: Grey screen, untitled

tab, upon opening chrome browser

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=231685

Any idea what this gray screen with blue X is when I open Chrome? I have
run malware and Avast. I don't get this screen every time I open Chrome,
but I do get it a majority of the time.


Attachments:
google start USE.jpg 108 KB

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Comment #7 on issue 231685 by gboyd7...@gmail.com: Grey screen, untitled

tab, upon opening chrome browser
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=231685

grey screen with blue x happened when I added grammarly to chrome...removed
it when I removed grammarly from chrome.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #8 on issue 231685 by russellw...@gmail.com: Grey screen, untitled

tab, upon opening chrome browser
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=231685

I went to manage Google extensions, and, under Grammarly, enabled "Allow
access to file URLs". This took care of the mysterious blue X, and I am
still able to use Grammarly. Hope this helps.

Also, this was on my chromebook.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Status: WontFix

Comment #9 on issue 231685 by a...@chromium.org: Grey screen, untitled tab,

upon opening chrome browser
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=231685

Unable to reproduce this on the latest stable(46.0.2490.71) on Windows-7 on
adding Grammarly extension as well.

Closing this issue as this is very old issue and no update on this for long.

Would request the users to file a new issue with detailed information, if
any such issue still happens on the latest stable as well.