If it doesn’t do the trick, please say so in the comments. This should fix it, especially if the problem has just started recently. If this solution doesn’t work, try increasing this and doing it again. If you are not sure, leave this as “the past hour” for now. The default setting will be to delete the browsing data for the past hour, but if you have had this problem of not being able to use Google Search in Chrome for longer than an hour, you can change the setting of “Obliterate the following items from…” to a longer period.For the Google website you can set that via the Google Search Settings page. You can also middle-click the search button or menu entry or use Alt+Enter to open the results in a new tab. The following four items should not have a checkmark in them (unless you want to clear this information too): For the search bar on the Navigation Toolbar you can set the Boolean pref to true on the about:config page. Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data.The following four items should have checkmarks:.Under “Privacy”, click on “Clear browsing data…”.Scroll down to the bottom and click on “Show advanced settings…”.Click on the tab in the upper right hand corner that lets you go to your Chrome settings.
