Unable to reproduce the issue on Linux Ubuntu 16.04 using chrome reported version-56.0.2924.76 & stable-57.0.2987.133 as per the below steps:
1.Check 'enable Workspaces' option in settings>appearence 
2.Opened chrome browser with lots of tabs in workspace 1.
3.Open workspace 2 
4.Open terminal
5.Execute "chromium-browser  --new-tab-page-1 http://www.gocomics.com/adamathome/" command in terminal & hit enter
6.Observed chromium browser opened seccuessfully without any crash & site "http://www.gocomics.com/adamathome" opened in new tab

Please check the issue by updating chrome browser with latest stable version & update the thread accordingly.
Thank you!!

I have "workspace 2" for webbrowsing, workspace 1 for mail. 

I was looking at the mail message with your comment when I realized: my workspace1 was open when I came to the computer this morning and my comics had opened just fine....

I have the impression that today is the first time I've noticed it working normally again. 

Options: 
* You're pulling my leg by quickly fixing it and then blaming me for the inaccurate report. :-) 
* Ubuntu fixed the regression. (It may have only been in their version). 
* It depends on more than I thought it did -> It'll happen again on short notice. 

My suggestion: 
* Leave this open. No further action from chromium team. 
I'll try to report back in a week or so. Otherwise remind me by posting the comment: "and?" if you see this after april 24 2017. 

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Hi, 
I've been going about my business since then, and partly because I hate it when this bug triggers and partly because I apparently often leave my computer with the web-browsing workspace active... it hasn't happened again.. Until yesterday. 

So. For me on 16.04 the problem has NOT been fixed. 

I use "sawfish" as the window manager. Is that something that may make a difference? On my systems, installing sawfish and then trying to login with sawfish as the window manager will return you to the login screen on short notice. The issue is a missing file that comes with the sawfish source distribution that needs to be included in the .deb.... 

There is no valid updates happened in the last few months, closing the issue. Feel free to reopen if needed.

I still suspect that it has NOT been fixed. But I found a good workaround. My start-tabs script now asks the windowmanager to switch to the browser-workspace before starting the tabs. This works-for-me, but does not fix the bug.