What is chrome_child.dll?

chrome_child.dll is part of Google Chrome and developed by Google Inc. according to the chrome_child.dll version information.

chrome_child.dll's description is "Google Chrome"

chrome_child.dll is digitally signed by Google Inc.

chrome_child.dll is usually located in the 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\33.0.1736.2\' folder.

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on chrome_child.dll:

PropertyValue
Product nameGoogle Chrome
Company nameGoogle Inc.
File descriptionGoogle Chrome
Internal namechrome_dll
Original filenamechrome.dll
Legal copyrightCopyright 2012 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
Product version33.0.1736.2
File version33.0.1736.2

Here's a screenshot of the file properties when displayed by Windows Explorer:

Product nameGoogle Chrome
Company nameGoogle Inc.
File descriptionGoogle Chrome
Internal namechrome_dll
Original filenamechrome.dll
Legal copyrightCopyright 2012 Google Inc. All right..
Product version33.0.1736.2
File version33.0.1736.2

Digital signatures [?]

chrome_child.dll has a valid digital signature.

PropertyValue
Signer nameGoogle Inc
Certificate issuer nameVeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA
Certificate serial number09e28b26db593ec4e73286b66499c370

Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD57d59a1f7a177d40dbdf3ff60faab2638
SHA256f60d33212be2af86a31faa6c51d6f23eaf8e8e6d41f945df573ef8a75b37bab9

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What did other users do?

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User vote results: There were 53 votes to remove and 12 votes to keep

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Comments

Please share with the other users what you think about this file. What does this file do? Is it legitimate or something that your computer is better without? Do you know how it was installed on your system? Did you install it yourself or did it come bundled with some other software? Is it running smoothly or do you get some error message? Any information that will help to document this file is welcome. Thank you for your contributions.

I'm reading all new comments so don't hesitate to post a question about the file. If I don't have the answer perhaps another user can help you.

Bermu writes

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Im not sure what Chrome_child.dll exactly does but im sure its an important file to run chrome.
I did the experiment: If i delete it, Google doesn´t works. So i had to restore it and now Google Chrome its ok.

# 5 Mar 2015, 17:51

User writes

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I delete it google go faster and work it perfectly.
Maybe parental control who slow the program.

# 8 Nov 2016, 14:47

Roger Karlsson writes

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From this discussion it seems that chrome_browser.dll and chrome_child.dll was created by the developers because chrome.dll was getting to big.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=237249

They split chrome.dll in two .DLLs: chrome_browser.dll and chrome_child.dll

# 14 Dec 2016, 6:53

Lasse Andersson writes

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Doesnt work on my win 7 x64 home edition. The program starts but the dialog box is white. Nothing else is visible. (ran it as admin)

# 24 Jul 2017, 14:49

Roger Karlsson writes

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@Lasse: Thank you for reporting in the bug. You've run into one of the bugs in FreeFixer which I have not been able to fix :(

A few other users have also reported the same issue. During the 10 years of developing the FreeFixer program, I've seen this white dialog box bug appear once. Unfortunately the bug did not show itself when I restarted FreeFixer so I was not able to debug and fix the bug.

Unfortunately I don't have any work-around for this bug. This is a long shot, but perhaps it will work better in Safe Mode.

If you find some clue that will help me figure out how to recreate this bug, or some work-around that made the with dialog problem disappear, please let me know.

Greetings from Stockholm!

# 1 Aug 2017, 7:26

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