A pop-up window starts a new process and it looks for chrome executable. Since it can't find it (you renamed it, after all) it crashes. I guess this is the reason, but I'm not sure.
--- Cumprimentos, Gonçalo Santarém da Silva MSN/Gtalk: [email protected] Skype: goncalosantaremsilva Twitter: http://twitter.com/goncalossilva On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 18:50, John Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Nope. > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:42 PM, PhistucK<[email protected]> wrote: > > Are you using "--enable-extensions"? > > If so, sometimes a popup window causes a crash, when it includes Java > > applets, for example. > > ☆PhistucK > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 16:03, JackCroww <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> My company uses McAfee as their virus/malware protection, and in their > >> wisdom, they (my company, not McAfee) decided in the early days of > >> Chrome that Chrome was a security risk and they added it to Unwanted > >> Programs Policy. The policy is managed centrally and end-users are > >> not allowed to edit the list. > >> > >> I was lucky in that I downloaded and installed Chrome before they made > >> this decision, so I was able to keep it running by renaming the > >> executable to googlechrome.exe. But there are two problem with this: > >> > >> The first is that the auto-updates are deleted upon download and so I > >> have to reboot in Safe Mode with Networking at home to get Chrome > >> updates. Not a huge issue, but it can be a bit of a hassle. > >> > >> The other is that popup windows always cause Chrome to crash. Since > >> these crashes don't happen on my home machine with Chrome, I can only > >> assume that it is because my executable is renamed. > >> > >> Any thoughts? > >> > >> >> > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
