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[Bug]: Helium crashes on auto-restart after update #127

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Version

0.9.3.1

Have you tested that this is not an upstream issue or an issue with your configuration?

  • I have tried reproducing this issue in Chrome and it could not be reproduced there
  • I have tried reproducing this issue in ungoogled-chromium and it could not be reproduced there
  • I have tried reproducing this issue in Helium with a new and empty profile using --user-data-dir command line argument and it could not be reproduced there

Description

After pressing "Relaunch [to finish updating]" on the about page, the browser tries to automatically restart but crashes.

How to Reproduce?

  1. Go to helium://settings/help when there is an update available
  2. Click on the button labeled "Relaunch"
  3. Observe a crash dialog

Additional context

I have had this occur every update I've used Helium (since around 0.5.2) and manually pressed the button to update.

The updates that didn't crash happened when I was away and likely quit Helium on my own or something like that.
These crashes all happened when I went to the about page and clicked "Restart Helium" (to finish updating).

Helium-2025-11-08-162615.log
Helium-2025-11-13-084850.log
Helium-2025-12-01-212218.log
Helium Helper (Renderer)-2025-12-01-212216.log

Update to 0.7.3.1: Helium-2025-12-10-112833.log
Update to 0.7.4.1: Helium-2025-12-14-163802.log
Update to 0.7.5.1: Helium-2025-12-16-164619.log
Update to 0.7.6.1: Helium-2025-12-17-214542.log
Update to 0.7.7.1: Helium-2025-12-23-181958.log
Update to 0.7.9.1: Helium-2026-01-05-135426.log
Update to 0.7.10.1: Helium-2026-01-08-120349.log
Update to 0.8.2.1: Helium-2026-01-18-215314.log
Update to 0.8.3.1: Helium-2026-01-22-132659.log
Update to 0.8.5.1: Helium-2026-02-06-164937.log
Update to 0.9.1.1: Helium-2026-02-16-233854.log
Update to 0.9.2.1: Helium-2026-02-18-135611.log
Update to 0.9.3.1: Helium-2026-02-21-153949.log

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