Start your Chrome and click on the three vertical dots symbol showing on the top right corner. If you are sure to reset then proceed further. Now that you know what will get deleted and what will be retained. However, if you are logged into your account on multiple devices, it will reset the settings to default on all devices.

If you are not signed in, resetting Chrome will only affect the specific profile on your device.

Your personal data and browsing history will be safe and won’t be deleted.

All saved passwords will be available after resetting Chrome.

All your bookmarked and Reading List items will be retained.

The good part is, Chrome will still retain the following things:

Disable all your extensions, still they will not get deleted and you can enable them after resetting.

Remove all pinned tabs and shortcuts on new tab page.

Reset your custom installed themes, customizations on the new tab page and home page.

Change your search engine back to default search engine (Generally, Google Search).

Delete all your stored cookies and site specific content settings like blocking popups, disable notifications, etc.

Though resetting Chrome is an easy task, remember and be aware that resetting the browser to factory defaults will change or delete the followings in Chrome: Suddenly facing browser errors and not able fix them.Installed an extension that changed the behavior of Chrome and uninstalling did not fix the issue.You modified some settings that changed the browser’s appearance and forgot how to revert back to initial state.Some random search engine took place of your default search engine and you are not able to change it back.However, below are some of the problems resetting can help to fix. In general, you should not reset the browser as it can delete all your customizations. Fortunately, Google makes it very easy to reset Chrome. But this may not help always, and at time, when no solutions fix your problem the last option is to reset Chrome browser. By default, Chrome checks the settings on launch and revert back to the original settings if something is wrong. However, playing around with installing many apps and extensions on Chrome browser may affect the settings and results in different errors or unexpected behavior. In addition, there are thousands of extensions for Chrome to enhance your browsing experience. Google Chrome offers lot of settings that you can change to customize the appearance.

Resetting google chrome settings