Mercurythread » google chrome http://www.mercurythread.co.uk The personal website of Michael Briggs : Professional SEO and Internet Geek Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:31:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Google Chrome – Crashing with Symantec (Part 2) http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/google-chrome-crashing-with-symantec-part-2/2008/09/ http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/google-chrome-crashing-with-symantec-part-2/2008/09/#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:39:29 +0000 Michael http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/?p=78 As mentioned in previous post you can turn off the sandboxing in Google Chrome to stop it conflicting with Symantec Endpoint Protection. However this is really a bit of a hack and as the sandbox is one of the cool things in Google Chrome turning it off isn’t really a great solution. As sandboxing means if the page running in one browser tab crashed the whole browser doesn’t crash. By using the previous hack you’re simply going to experience FirFox style crashes with your nice new Google browser.

The Elegant Solution to fix Google Chrome

The best solution would be to get rid of Symantec altogether and get a better anti-virus system – I don’t like it in the first place. But this isn’t going to be appropriate for everyone so instead…

1) Back up the registry on an affected system.
2) Open the registry on the Agent system by entering regedit from a run prompt.
3) Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesSysPlant.
4) Open the Start DWORD.
5) Change the value to 4 to disable the drivers.
6) Reboot the system to commit the changes.

Have fun getting your Google browser working with Symantec. Let us know how you get on.

TY to The Art of Foo for the heads up

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