Interesting. I think, Chrome doesn't do sandboxing when you run it as administrator (because it'd be pointless security-wise), so maybe it specifically crashes

Interesting. I think, Chrome doesn't do sandboxing when you run it as administrator (because it'd be pointless security-wise), so maybe it specifically crashes when trying to spawn those sandbox processes. Or it's a simple matter of it not having file access permission to a file that it needs and running it as administrator obviously grants it access to that file. Not that this information is likely to help you fix that issue...