Losing mouse functionality in Google Chrome

Factual Questions
1

For the last few weeks I’ve been having a problem with Google Chrome. The first symptom will be that mouse-overs don’t work on hyperlinks. Eventually, I will not be able to click on hyperlinks at all; nothing happens. Shutting down Chrome and re-starting usually fixes these problems. On very rare occasions I have to restart my computer. This loss of functionality is confined to web content; everything works fine in the menu bar and elsewhere in the Chrome window, and in other applications.

I’ve tried to keep an eye on which web sites I visit to see if I can determine if one in particular might be the culprit. So far, there’s nothing I can say for sure other than that, when doing my ritual morning web-surfing, I usually notice it first while on fark.com. Unfortunately, by that time I’ve clicked through to too many other web sites to be able to isolate any as the culprits.

FWIW I’m running an iMac that’s less than a year old, macOS 10.13.16, Chrome v70.0.3538.77.

Has this happened to anyone else? Suggestions for possible culprits?

2

Are you running a music player? This reddit user said he was having the problem while running foobar.

3

No music player. Looking further into the Reddit user’s issue, I don’t have anything running in transparent mode, either (as far as I know).

Have to keep plugging away at it, I guess.

4

Months later, in case anybody cares, it seems to be something that Quicken for Mac is doing. When my mouse-overs start misbehaving, if I shut down Quicken they come instantly back.

Problem identified and remedied.