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Tabbed pages won't open - instead they close. Can't access browser set
I am using Win HP 7, and use Google Chrome as my default browser. When I try to go to an already open tab, I can't access it - instead of switching to the tab, it closes it. The only way I can go to a site on a different tab than the one opened at startup is to open a new tab, then type in the address. Ex: I have my browser set to open my homepage, google on a separate tab, and another site on the third. Since I just opened the browser, I'm initially on my home page. But if I click the tab I wish to go to, instead of going to the already opened page, the tab closes. I cannot access the browser settings either. The only times this ever changes is if I restart the entire machine, however, that is no longer "fixing" it. I want to know why this is happening, and I think either my local or roaming profile may be corrupt - in the past one a few occasions I've booted my machine, and gotten a msg. before Windows starts that it cannot access my profile. On the few occaisions this has happened, I restarted my machine and it loaded a usable profile.
Thinking it may be something in the browser settings that is doing this, I tried to open them, but can't - it just clicks and does nothing. (In Chrome only.) I have tried uninstalling Chrome, restarting the machine, downloading and reinstalling the Chrome browser. While this fixes the problem in the short term, it always happens again. I can't open my bookmark manager to back up my bookmarks and do not want to lose them again.
Is my problem with my profile? If I open IE9, the tabbed pages work properly; at least I've never had this problem. I prefer Chrome because it is so much faster, and easier (usually) to use than IE9.
HELP!