Google Chrome "+" New Tab url blank instead of www.google.com

[Windows 10]

Please help. I have tried for four days to solve this problem. I am on a pc Windows 10 with google chrome as a browser. When I am online in Google Chrome, I click "+" for a new tab, a new page opens to the google search page but it does not render fully, leaving the url blank. This started on December 14. Here are solutions I have tried: going to the "on startup" settings to set google, clearing the cache, history, etc., removing all extensions, uninstalling/reinstalling Chrome; updating Chrome; run Windows Defender offline and other scans. I even paid for a Norton VPN scanner. No success. Wh

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