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May fix blank chrome window on dosdude patched unsupported macs with 10.14 or maybe 10.15
echo " reinstall all patches and rebuild kext first. I did not reboot. YMMV "
open /Applications/Utilities/Patch\ Updater.app
echo " warning... this will delete all chome profiles! You'll have to sign in and re-sync."
mv ~/Applications/Chrome\ Apps.localized/ /tmp/
mv ~/Application\ Support/Google/ /tmp
mv ~/Library/Google /tmp
rm -rf /Library/Google
rm -rf /Library/Application\ Support/Google
/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --disable-gpu chrome://extensions
#/Applications/Google\ Chrome\ Beta.app/
/Applications/Google\ Chrome\ Beta.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome\ Beta --disable-gpu chrome://extensions
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Possible fix for blank-screen in Chrome on dos-dude patched 10.14 (and maybe 10.15?) on unsupported older macs per https://www.reddit.com/r/MojavePatcher/comments/peofmw/comment/htrkskx/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Trys to do all the various fixes proposed at the many reddit threads on this issue, including starting chrome with --disable-gpu command-line option

  1. Download raw file `chrome-fix-for-mojave-patcher.command

  2. In Terminal, paste in commands below, one at a time.

cd  ~/Downloads
source chrome-fix-for-mojave-patcher.command
chmod a+x chrome-fix-for-mojave-patcher.command

I am writing this in newest chrome-beta (108 as of 2022-11-02) which works after above 2 steps on mid-2010 macbook-pro 7,1 with 10.14.6-18G103 and Chrome-beta Version 108.0.5359.22 (Official Build) beta (x86_64)

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