Chrome settings are messed up
Your homepage, search engine or startup pages changed without you choosing it — often because an app or extension changed them. Chrome has a built-in reset that restores these settings while keeping your bookmarks, history and passwords.
Does this sound familiar?
- My Chrome homepage changed by itself
- My searches go to a search engine I didn't choose
- Chrome opens strange pages when it starts
- An extension changed how Chrome behaves and I can't undo it
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Reset Chrome settings to their defaults
Chrome's reset restores the settings that extensions or apps most often change without asking — the default search engine, homepage, startup and pinned tabs, content settings, and cookies and site data — and it disables all extensions. Your saved bookmarks, history and passwords are not deleted or changed.
Source: Official documentationTesting: Not team-testedReports: none reviewed yet
Reviewed 9 Nov 2026
Applies to: Computers (Windows, Mac, Linux or Chromebook) with Google Chrome