

Whenever you simply open and close Google Chrome two times in a row, this clears out the recently closed. I made some searches that suggest to look for mimeapps.list or check that the sktop contains a %U value, but none of these helped. Google Chrome will ask you to restart the browser.

Not sure if this is related or how to fix it. I noticed that both in Unity Launcher and from the default app settings, Chrome isn't called just 'Google Chome' but 'New Tab – Google Chrome'. If I switch back to Chrome as default browser (via default apps) it happens again. I switched to Firefox and this behavior doesn't persist. Since I installed Ubuntu (fresh install on a new machine), and set Google Chrome as default browser, whenever I open links from external apps these are open as blank tabs in new browser window (no actual redirection to site, just a blank tab).
