Program shortcuts: More Tools > Add to desktop... also give this error. Seems anything trying to open a chrome process (even a saved chrome based application) cause this error. Worked until i updated to newest.

Nothing listed under the crashes section, so it is not being handled as a crash.

Unable to reproduce the issue on Windows 7 with chrome version-54.0.2840.87 and Canary-56.0.2913.0 with the below 3 scenarios:

1.Downloaded chrome stable version & able to launch the browser,web pages successfully.

2.Opened chrome browser->Search for Chrome -->More tools->Add to Desktop

Observed chrome lunched successfully upon clicking the chrome shortcut on the desktop.

3.Able to open pdf file in chrome

Please find the attached screen cast for reference  & please let me know if i miss anything to reproduce the issue.

Thanks.

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I am glad this works for you on your end, but this is not the outcome i have. Is there something i can run to debug why it is crashing when opening? If it is isolated to my machine (i doubt i am the only person in the world with this issue since it has happened MANY MANY times in the past) then i would be more than happy to run some tests to trace what is causing chrome to become unresponsive.

+wfh: does this ring any bells for you? do you have any suggestions for diagnosing it (short of windbg)?

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OP: a few updates have been pushed since you filed this issue. is it still happening? thanks.

It seems to be working fine now.

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As per comment#8, marking this issue as wontfix.

Thank you.

I saw that this and another thread were set as WontFix and that you believe the issue has been resolved but in 55.0.2883.87 m (64-bit) for WIN 8.1 I'm having the same issue where chrome pops up the "Google Chrome is unresponsive. Relaunch now?" when opening any links from external apps.

Is this when clicking an https:... link in, for example, a mail reader? Does the same happen if you do something like this from a CMD prompt:

> start https://www.google.com/

The type of links don't matter. It seems to be triggered by programs that aren't being run as administrator.

This is not accurate. My account is not only a local admin but a domain
admin. There are no permissions the account does not have, yet it has
happened to me multiple times. So the admin amount might be a symptom but
it's not the root cause.