Google Chrome browser sometimes gets you into trouble by showing errors that can be fixed and some can’t. You likely to experience most errors on development builds like Canary or dev. but its also not true, stable users also ran into update server issues with error 3 and error 7. Its true most can be solved by reinstalling chrome which may not be solution everyone hopes for.
Fix Chrome’s error : Your preferences file is corrupt or invalid
When you try to open Google Chrome you may get an error like this: ”your preferences file is corrupt or invalid. Google Chrome is unable to recover your settings’. The Fix worked for us is Resetting Chrome settings which was introduced with Chrome 29 release.
To reset Chrome settings
From Chrome menu select Settings>Show Advanced Settings>Click ‘Reset Browser settings’.
“Your browser settings will be restored to their original defaults. This will reset your homepage, new tab page and search engine, disable your extensions and unpin all tabs. It will also clear other temporary and cached data, such as cookies, content and site data”.
So if you’re using older versions prior to this which is not recommended you may try uninstall and reinstall of Chrome. If you ran into a situation where you can’t uninstall Chrome then know how to remove it.
Hope that helps. Have you got this error? How you fixed it? Share with us in comments.
