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Emergency Kit
  1. Open terminal.app
    1. ⌘ + space bar
    2. Enter & select terminal.app
  2. Copy, paste & submit with enter:
    (Backups bookmarks/passwords, deletes other Chrome files that might cause the 💥)

    mkdir ~/ChromeBackUp && cp -R ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Bookmarks ~/ChromeBackup && cp -R ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/databases ~/ChromeBackup/databases && rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default

  3. Delete Google Chrome in Applications directory
    1. Open Finder
    2. Menu bar Go > Applications
  4. Download Chrome via Safari
  5. Install Chrome & keep it closed
  6. Re-open terminal.app
  7. Copy, paste & submit with enter:
    (Restores bookmarks/passwords, deletes backup afterwards)

    rm ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Bookmarks && rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/databases && mv ~/ChromeBackUp/* ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/ && rm -rf ~/ChromeBackup

  8. Open Chrome
  9. Enjoy 💐

(This information is supplied without liability 😇)

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