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I am trying to open Stack Overflow in Chrome but it is not opening. I can open it from four others laptops, but it is not opening in Chrome. What is the reason?

I am getting this error:

Oops! Google Chrome could not find stackoverflow.com

It works in Mozilla.

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  • Does stack overflow work in firefox? Do other pages work in chrome? Commented Sep 1, 2013 at 16:11
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    Works for me in Chrome. Are you getting network/JavaScript errors in the console (F12)? Are things OK in other browsers? You really need to supply enough detail if you want us to even start helping. Commented Sep 1, 2013 at 16:12
  • it is not working for me in chrome but works in mozila Commented Sep 1, 2013 at 16:14
  • Clear your cache, close all instances of chrome and try again. It is very strange to get a network error like this that is affecting only one browser. Commented Sep 1, 2013 at 16:16
  • @Oded I try to open it from friends laptop but same error Commented Sep 1, 2013 at 16:16
  • Where are you accessing the Internet from? Work? School? Home? Commented Sep 1, 2013 at 16:17
  • Handy tool: downforeveryoneorjustme.com/stackoverflow.com; not much we can do to help you, to be honest. Sorry! Commented Sep 1, 2013 at 16:17
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    @Emrakul There's a shorter one: isup.me Commented Sep 1, 2013 at 16:19
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    Hay I am also getting the same problem.. Commented Sep 1, 2013 at 16:24
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    Same issue i am facing any solution? Commented Sep 1, 2013 at 16:34
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    If it works with another browser on the same computer, it's very unlikely that it's a hardware/network problem. Commented Sep 1, 2013 at 16:45
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    IPv4 or IPv6? See also test-ipv6.com (with all browsers). Commented Sep 1, 2013 at 16:58
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    If it's opening on another browser, it's not a network issue, and it's not a DNS issue either. It's either browser specific (clear cache, or reinstall Chrome), or (very unlikely) that SO is somehow filtering/dropping HTTP requests coming from Chrome user agents, coming from a specific region. It would be awesome to test this by connecting through a VPN and checking if it opens up. Commented Sep 1, 2013 at 17:54
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    @Alaa - "(very unlikely) that SO is somehow filtering/dropping HTTP requests coming from Chrome user agents, coming from a specific region.!". No way we are doing that... Commented Sep 1, 2013 at 18:22
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    Unselect "Predict network actions to improve page load performance" under Chrome's settings --> "Show Advanced Settings" or visit chrome://net-internals/ and hit "Clear Host Cache" Chrome uses it's own DNS prefetching by default which would explain why other browsers work and Chrome doesn't. Commented Sep 1, 2013 at 20:15

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From the sounds of it you're being blocked by Chrome's internal DNS prefetcher which overrides your computer/router's DNS settings unless you tell it not to.

If you unchecked "Predict network actions to improve page load performance" under Settings --> "Show Advanced Settings" in Chrome and restart it, it'll rely on your local DNS settings rather than Chrome's preset ones which should fix your issue, or at the very least make loading pages in Chrome the same as loading pages in Firefox.

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  • I don't see that seeing in chromium Commented Dec 13, 2019 at 11:05
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Sometimes these things pop up. It might be due to some misconfigured firewall. If everything is okay, and you're pretty sure of it, clear your cookies, cache, history. Restart Chrome. It should work.

If it still DOES NOT work, there's a way out- Open Task Manager. Close all Chrome.exe processes. Restart your computer. Start Chrome.

That's it. A quick-fix.

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    It looks like a DNS error, and looks broader than the local browser level. Also, it appears they've tried this. Commented Sep 1, 2013 at 16:44
  • If it's a DNS error it should be a temporary one. Otherwise use Google Open DNS ip- 8.8.8.8. Commented Sep 2, 2013 at 11:51
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There is something wrong with a browser setting, probably.

I have fixed this issue by:

  1. resetting the browser settings (Settings-> Advance setting -> Reset settings)
  2. cleaning the cache
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I too had the same problem. It solved for me by changing LAN settings in chrome to 'Use a proxy server for your LAN' and providing the address of our proxy server. But I wonder how it got reset

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Had issues with Stackoverflow and other sites for while. What fixed the issue for me was to deactivate all the Google extensions (docs, sheets, slides).

I had tried to reset my settings with no effect. Resetting the setting is supposed to deactivate all the extensions, but it didn't seem to work for the extensions above.

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