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Jack 10 Dec @ 6:52pm
Chromium browser windows spam open because of new steamwebhelper.exe bug.
Had this happen today when I launched steam and a bunch of Chromium browsers popped up. I thought it may have been malware at first, but I work in the IT field and keep my PC tidy so I thought it was unlikely. Looking it up I see the same issue reported by others on Reddit within the past two weeks (last major update). I personally have never had this issue before but it seems related to steamwebhelper.exe . Has anyone else experienced this recently? Thank you.

Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1p56iki/chromium_opening_from_steam_client_webhelper/
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AdorableLand 11 Dec @ 7:10am 
had this yesterday after booting my pc after a couple of days of not using it. and it just happened now as well. Turned on my pc, open steam and 2 chromius windows randomly opened.
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Lovzi 11 Dec @ 9:48am 
i have the same problem after an steam update
Last edited by Lovzi; 11 Dec @ 9:48am
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BOT Maximilian 12 Dec @ 9:43am 
I have the same issue on (OS: Fedora 42 GNOME)
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Jazz 12 Dec @ 8:43pm 
having the same issue, it seems disabling GPU accelerated rendering in web views in settings>interface "fixes" it.
hope they fix it soon >_> thought i had a virus
edit: i'd also like to mention it hasn't started happening to me until about ~4 days ago. using windows 11
Last edited by Jazz; 12 Dec @ 10:12pm
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