How to Fix: ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS in Chrome?

Google Chrome is known for Too many redirects error. Frankly, I’ve had far too many encounters with this error on my Chrome browser and I know how it gets on our nerves every time we are in a haste to load up a particular website.

Tracking down the error to its source, I managed to come up with a conclusion that the error ultimately pops up as a result of some faulty browser data or a troubling extension on your Chrome browser.

In addition to this, too many redirect errors may also show up when something goes wrong at the website’s backend. What happens here is that the website owners sometimes change the URL of a webpage in order to retain its ranking.

Website owners may also do this in instances of a domain change or something similar to that.  In such cases, the error pops up when your browser tries to redirect the URL to the address but fails in its final attempt.

In such cases, the new URL for the webpage might not be successfully registered or changed against which we can’t do any action. If this happens, all that we can do is wait until the website owner resolves the issue.

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However, if the error isn’t sourced out from the website’s backend, then there are some possible fixes that we can all count on.

Without bragging much, I’ll get us all into the point of this discussion. So here are the three possible fixes to counter the too many redirects error on Chrome.

Clear Chrome data

Like I already mentioned, the redirects can be caused by some faulty Chrome cache or data. So, our primary fix is to clear the cache data and reset the website files that are stored in the chrome browser.

Here are the steps to clear the chrome cache and cookies data:

1. Launch Google Chrome browser on a computer.
2. Click on the menu icon  at the top right corner.
3. Select on the Settings menu from the list.
4. Head over to the Privacy and Security section.
   
5. Under the Privacy and Security section, click on the Clear browsing data tab option.
6. Switch to the Advanced tab.
7. Click on the dropdown next to Time range and choose the All Time option
8. Enable the checkbox for the following options:
   • Browsing history
   • Download history
   • Cookies, and other site data
   • Cached images and files
9. Hit on the Clear data button and wait for the data to be cleared.
   

Depending on how often you clear the browser’s data, the process will take more or less time to complete. So if you clear data regularly, it will be done swiftly in a few seconds.

Remove Chrome extensions

Another usual cause of this issue is Chrome extensions. Certain unknown or spam extensions can interfere with your browser experience, leading to such unwanted errors. Especially the adblockers and content blockers interfere with the browsing.

In such cases, it’s good to identify the culprit extension and removes the browser. You can also disable the extensions if you think might create issues.

Here are the steps to remove the extension from the chrome browser:

1. Launch Google Chrome browser on your computer.
2. Click on the menu icon at the top right side of your Chrome browser.
3. Hover your mouse over the More tools option and click on Extensions.
   The list of extensions you have on your Chrome browser will be displayed.
4. Find the unknown/suspicious extension, and remove it by clicking on the Remove button.
   

In order to find which extension is causing the problem, we suggest you disable the extensions one after the other and check if the browser works properly. Once you find the cause, you can head over to the removal of the extension.

Clear DNS Cache

The final possible fix we have is to clear the DNS cache on our Chrome browser. Your browser stores all the domain addresses you’ve visited on your browser so it can sometimes confuse a newly changed URL with its old one.

Here are the steps to clear DNS cache in the Google Chrome browser:

1. Launch Google Chrome browser on a computer.
2. Enter the following address into the browser’s URL bar and search for it
   [/code]chrome://net-internals/#dns[/code]
   
3. Click on Clear host cache button under the DNS section.
   

That will successfully flush the DNS cache on your Chrome browser. This will potentially prevent your browser from redirecting to the old URL of a webpage.

Bottom Line: Too Many Redirect Chrome

With that, we’ve covered all three of the fixes that you can use to fight with if you no longer need the presence of the redirects error on your Chrome browser.

In most cases, clearing the Chrome data will do the trick as it the usual troublemaker for the majority of Chrome users.

However, in case the problem doesn’t back off with that one, I’m assuming that the second method will ensure the error’s presence be gone.

In my case, I had a VPN in my list of extensions. It was from an untrusted source that I added a few months back and removing it from my browser fixed the issue for me.

For the best result in your scenario, we suggest you try out each method one by one to see what works for you.

In case none of the three fixes proves effective, then there’s a great chance that the issue is sourced from the website’s backend and you’ll have to wait it out if that’s the case.