Chrome constantly claims that it didn't shut down correctly [duplicate]

I went into Settings / Advanced (in Chrome) and checked the box for "Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed" option. This fixed the problem for me.

Ironically, I went to this setting because another user had fixed it by UNCHECKING that option, which worked for him.

Perhaps simply changing the option causes Chrome to clean up something internally. I believe my bogus error msg began when Chrome actually DID fail to shut down correctly, and somehow the error flag got stuck.

EDIT: As of second half of 2018 the "Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed" option is now available in Settings > Advanced > System in Google Chrome (Windows 10).

This was just happening to me too. Just do the following things:

1. Open the folder %UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\
2. Open the file preferences

3. Towards the bottom, find the following line:

   "exit_type": "Crashed"
   

   Then replace Crashed with normal like this:

   "exit_type": "normal"
   

4. Save and relaunch Chrome

The problem should be fixed!

Not working since Chrome 43

I've used Ryan's (one time solution) and valentt's (needed to change another preference) answers to fix it forever (I hope so) on Ubuntu

add following to Startup Apllications (don't forget to change your profile name and chrome directory):

sed -i 's/exit_type\"\:\ \"Crashed/exit_type\"\:\ \"normal/g' /home/janot/.config/google-chrome-beta/Default/Preferences

This is how i solved Chrome not shutting down correctly! Simply start chrome automatically at start-up with the following command: google-chrome --no-startup-window

This solved it for me!

FYI: I am running Mint 64bit v17.1 (cinnamon)

On Windows it may be necessary to remove System, Hidden and Read-only attributes from the file %UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Preferences due to malware corruption. The "crashed" status is preserved every launch because the file attributes forbid Chrome from removing the "crashed" status. You can do this with the following command (elevation is not required):

attrib -h -s -r "%UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Preferences"

After opening Chrome and either clicking the 'x' or the 'restore' buttons on the warning, close Chrome and the next time you open it the error will be gone.