After every session I've used Chrome Portable I am unable to eject my thumb drive, without first going into the task manager and killing 'GoogleChromePortable.exe *32' - 2,720K.
Is this a known issue, and is there a way to fix it?
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Chrome info:
Version 19.0.1
Extensions:
- LastPass
- Readability
I am also logged into my Google account in the browser.
I have already turned off the 'Let Google Chrome run in the background' option as well.
[moved to Other Apps Support by mod JTH]
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What else is running besides GoogleChromePortable.exe? It will only stick around if it sees chrome.exe still running and then start its shutdown process (which is not instantaneous). It will take longer to shut down if you have password saving enabled. Longer still if you have it encrypt your whole profile. How long are you giving it to shut down?
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I'm not sure if the official GCP includes my latest changes (there's a post somewhere in the beta testing forum) but I added some command line flags to try and keep Chrome from launching its background processes for Google Cloud Print and Background Apps. I dunno if the user can still override and force them on though.
If chrome.exe is still running one of those options could be enabled in the user profile. Cloud Print isn't portable anyway, and background apps isn't recommended as it's easy to think Chrome is closed when the tray icon is still running background apps.
These are the flags I added FWIW:
--no-service-autorun --disable-background-mode --no-default-browser-check --no-first-run --disable-logging
I don't think you can disable Google Cloud Print from the command line so the user just has to realize it's rather useless in portable mode and avoid it.
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