macOS Mojave google chrome don't working

[oyeskumo]

hi all, unsupported macbook 5.1 (2008 later) I installed macOS mjave and now google chrome is not working how can i fix this problem

 

[BrianBaughn]

I have the same MB and I definitely had that issue once…but I don't remember the solution or if I ever got it solved…because I've subsequently installed dosdude1's unsupported Catalina.

The unsupported Mojave thread here has some comments about that issue in it.

Chrome always made my 2008 MB heat up anyway (loud fans) so I don't use it at all.

 

[nospamboz]

Any software based on Chromium, including Brave, Vivaldi, and (strangely) Skype, exhibits this behavior. The fix I use is to add "--disable-gpu-sandbox" to the executable command line (Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium --disable-gpu-sandbox).

(The cause is probably due to using a non-standard GPU in Mojave.)

On my system I made an app wrapper that does this. I've attached the one I use for Brave, and you just have to rename things and point the shell script in Contents/MacOS to the right executable. You can change the "app" icon by copying and pasting between two Finder Get Info panes.

HTH