peeddoor.hay@ Thanks for the issue.

Tested this issue On Windows 10 on the reported version 70.0.3538.77 and the latest Canary 72.0.3598.0 and unable to reproduce the issue.
On launching Chrome, cannot observe the task bar icons are refreshing.

Request you to retry the issue on a new chrome profile without any flags/extensions and update the thread with the observations.

Thanks..

Created a new profile - same thing happened - also when I deleted the shortcut from the desktop - that caused the icons to refresh too. I use Bitdefender so I wonder if it has anything to do with that ? Will uninstall BD and see what happens. I seem to recall seeing a thread somewhere else about Bitdefender!

Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding the requester to the cc list.

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Just reviewed Google - this has been an issue before. See this thread.https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/ca72cea15121cc5d3f4a9c3ee0312d27fca66d03

The issue looks similar to issue id: 900374. Hence, merging into the issue id: 900374.
Please feel free to undupe the same if not the case.

Thanks...!!