Google chrome not opening in ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Solution 1:

I had same issue. By running google-chrome from terminal, I found that it needed a new version of NSS:

$ google-chrome

[6999:7036:1113/200616.549496:FATAL:nss_util.cc(632)] NSS_VersionCheck("3.26") failed. NSS >= 3.26 is required. Please upgrade to the latest NSS, and if you still get this error, contact your distribution maintainer.
Aborted (core dumped)

So I installed libnss3:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall libnss3

and it worked for me :)

Solution 2:

It's worked

I uninstalled it by sudo apt-get purge google-chrome and then rm ~/.config/google-chrome -rf and then installing it back. First, I tried to install it via Google's official website and then downloading .deb file there, but after downloading the installer application of Ubuntu 16.04 stuck, even it isn't working now. Then, I tried to install it via terminal by writing

cd /tmp
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

Solution 3:

I had a similar issue. Some applications would install OK, and when clicking, they would "Open", or at least they would shake like they were opening, but in effect nothing happened.

It turned out to be because I have a Graphics card, and the system mistakenly thought I had two monitors so the applications were opening on this phantom monitor.

If this is the case for you, go to System Settings > Displays and if there is an extra display, disable it.

I also went on to install the nvidia driver which helped with other problems