Google Chrome in launcher got replaced





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Today, when I open google chrome from the unity launcher, it's getting stuck in opening homepage. It hangs for 3 seconds and the option to force quit immediately popup.



I tried opening through terminal, google-chrome-stable command, and it opens normally. I think my launcher icon got replaced. One thing I noticed was its not on the same position as last time. Its now on bottom of the list. Also when I hover on it, the launcher name is now my local IP (192.168.99.10) instead of Google Chrome - web Browser and it lost the option for Open a New Window and Open a Private Window when right clicking it. I suspected it got replaced and now loading my local environment, but I'm not sure why it hangs and cannot proceed.



So I searched my /usr/share/applications directory and find google-chrome.desktop, but upon checking it seems normal.



Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable %U
Terminal=false
Icon=google-chrome
Type=Application
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml_xml;image/webp;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp;
Actions=new-window;new-private-window;


I'm not sure what has caused this and how to fix it. I don't want to run google chrome through terminal every time I needed it.



There wasn't any update and the only thing different that I did was running chrome with a flag from terminal last week once:



google-chrome --disable-web-security --user-data-dir="/tmp/chrome_tmp"









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    Today, when I open google chrome from the unity launcher, it's getting stuck in opening homepage. It hangs for 3 seconds and the option to force quit immediately popup.



    I tried opening through terminal, google-chrome-stable command, and it opens normally. I think my launcher icon got replaced. One thing I noticed was its not on the same position as last time. Its now on bottom of the list. Also when I hover on it, the launcher name is now my local IP (192.168.99.10) instead of Google Chrome - web Browser and it lost the option for Open a New Window and Open a Private Window when right clicking it. I suspected it got replaced and now loading my local environment, but I'm not sure why it hangs and cannot proceed.



    So I searched my /usr/share/applications directory and find google-chrome.desktop, but upon checking it seems normal.



    Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable %U
    Terminal=false
    Icon=google-chrome
    Type=Application
    Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
    MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml_xml;image/webp;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp;
    Actions=new-window;new-private-window;


    I'm not sure what has caused this and how to fix it. I don't want to run google chrome through terminal every time I needed it.



    There wasn't any update and the only thing different that I did was running chrome with a flag from terminal last week once:



    google-chrome --disable-web-security --user-data-dir="/tmp/chrome_tmp"









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      Today, when I open google chrome from the unity launcher, it's getting stuck in opening homepage. It hangs for 3 seconds and the option to force quit immediately popup.



      I tried opening through terminal, google-chrome-stable command, and it opens normally. I think my launcher icon got replaced. One thing I noticed was its not on the same position as last time. Its now on bottom of the list. Also when I hover on it, the launcher name is now my local IP (192.168.99.10) instead of Google Chrome - web Browser and it lost the option for Open a New Window and Open a Private Window when right clicking it. I suspected it got replaced and now loading my local environment, but I'm not sure why it hangs and cannot proceed.



      So I searched my /usr/share/applications directory and find google-chrome.desktop, but upon checking it seems normal.



      Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable %U
      Terminal=false
      Icon=google-chrome
      Type=Application
      Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
      MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml_xml;image/webp;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp;
      Actions=new-window;new-private-window;


      I'm not sure what has caused this and how to fix it. I don't want to run google chrome through terminal every time I needed it.



      There wasn't any update and the only thing different that I did was running chrome with a flag from terminal last week once:



      google-chrome --disable-web-security --user-data-dir="/tmp/chrome_tmp"









      share|improve this question
















      Today, when I open google chrome from the unity launcher, it's getting stuck in opening homepage. It hangs for 3 seconds and the option to force quit immediately popup.



      I tried opening through terminal, google-chrome-stable command, and it opens normally. I think my launcher icon got replaced. One thing I noticed was its not on the same position as last time. Its now on bottom of the list. Also when I hover on it, the launcher name is now my local IP (192.168.99.10) instead of Google Chrome - web Browser and it lost the option for Open a New Window and Open a Private Window when right clicking it. I suspected it got replaced and now loading my local environment, but I'm not sure why it hangs and cannot proceed.



      So I searched my /usr/share/applications directory and find google-chrome.desktop, but upon checking it seems normal.



      Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable %U
      Terminal=false
      Icon=google-chrome
      Type=Application
      Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
      MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml_xml;image/webp;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp;
      Actions=new-window;new-private-window;


      I'm not sure what has caused this and how to fix it. I don't want to run google chrome through terminal every time I needed it.



      There wasn't any update and the only thing different that I did was running chrome with a flag from terminal last week once:



      google-chrome --disable-web-security --user-data-dir="/tmp/chrome_tmp"






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