CCleaner and chrome frame issue

[molasses]

Hello,

 

Not a bug per-se, but just a quick courtesy note & a FYI concerning something I ran into with CCleaner and "Google Chrome Frame"

 

I am trying out a program called Plex. Part of the installation recommends to install "Google Chrome Frame".

http://www.plexapp.c...ownload-new.php

This portion recommends the chrome frame install:

For optimal performance and compatibility with Plex Media Manager, we recommend Google Chrome, Safari, FireFox, or IE9 with Google Chrome Frame.

http://code.google.c...me/chromeframe/

 

When I ran CCleaner today I got a pop-up saying I needed to close Google Chrome.

I did not have any web browsers open, so I looked at my running processes.

I noticed ("chrome_frame_helper.exe" --startup") was running.

After killing the process I was able to run CCleaner as normal.

 

The "Chrome_Frame_Helper" is listed within a few start-up location within my system

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run ChromeFrameHelper chrome_frame_helper.exe

HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\Protocols\Handler gcf npchrome_frame.dll

 

So this "chrome_frame_helper" is always going to run at startup, if I leave this helper installed

As mentioned, I did not have any web browsers open.

 

Thank you for having and maintaining such a fine set of tools.

[Nergal]

Chrome frame tends to run in the background and is indeed a instance of chrome and thus is an open browser. Kill the process before cleaning chrome items via ccleaner