If Chrome crashes, freezes or becomes unresponsive whenever you try downloading a file from the internet to your PC, you can use these working fixes to resolve the issue.

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This is especially true of PDF files since Chrome can't open them natively and thus hands them over to other applications, the default being Google Drive's PDF viewer.