Google search page displaying only symbols

[hawker28]

I use Chrome as my primary internet engine. When I pull up my browser it automatically loads my two email inboxes and a generic google.com search page into three different tabs. My email pages are Hotmail and Gmail. The problem is my google search page that turns up nothing but symbols from bottom to top. I have no experience in code or programming but that's about what it looks like. I attached a link to what it looks like as someone else had a similar issue with firefox it looks like. I don't really understand the fixes/"workarounds" that they gave so if you have any ideas, step-by-step instructions would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance.http/

 

[LudazTV]

Have you tried the basic stuff like clearing cache and cookies, resetting browser? Try simple stuff first

 

[hawker28]

Have you tried the basic stuff like clearing cache and cookies, resetting browser? Try simple stuff first

I should have mentioned that I did do those things. Yes I did clear the cache and cookies, deleted my browsing history "back to the beginning of time", and just tried resetting the browser and unfortunately none of those worked.

 

[LudazTV]

I'm also not very skilled with coding etc, so you probably already tried everything I can suggest :lol:

Have you checked your default opening pages to check if the google.com doesn't have some weird stuff at the end of the URL? Maybe it's sending you to a false Google page instead

 

[rgd1101]

using vpn?
any extension on chrome?
try another browser?

 

[hawker28]

Have you checked your default opening pages to check if the google.com doesn't have some weird stuff at the end of the URL? Maybe it's sending you to a false Google page instead

Yeah it's just marked as a chrome/newtab/
It also does it when I type out google.com. If I search within the address bar, it also does it.

using vpn?
any extension on chrome?
try another browser?

No VPN, I disabled all the extensions and it also does it in Microsoft Edge. It's so weird!! It only does it on google.com and any searches that I make within it. It's not critical at this point but more just a nuisance that I want to figure out. I can find a different search engine if that's what it comes to.

 

[hawker28]

using vpn?
any extension on chrome?
try another browser?

No VPN, I disabled all the extensions and it also does it in Microsoft Edge. It's so weird!! It only does it on google.com and any searches that I make within it. It's not critical at this point but more just a nuisance that I want to figure out. I can find a different search engine if that's what it comes to.

 

[hawker28]

I'm also not very skilled with coding etc, so you probably already tried everything I can suggest :lol:

Have you checked your default opening pages to check if the google.com doesn't have some weird stuff at the end of the URL? Maybe it's sending you to a false Google page instead

Yeah it's just marked as a chrome/newtab/
It also does it when I type out google.com. If I search within the address bar, it also does it.

 

[LudazTV]

Hm, make sure that none of your Anti-virus may be blocking google.com - that's been a problem for me before