UwAmp restart crashes Chrome pages

Question

Whenever UwAmp restarts itself (for example, when I modify php.ini or switch to a different version of php) it often crashes whatever Chrome pages I have opened, whether they are pages that I'm testing on UwAmp or something completely unrelated like Facebook. They go blank and I have to reload them. Sometimes it closes Chrome altogether, I have to restart it and I get the message saying that Chrome closed unexpectedly. What gives? Is this a known bug? Is there any way to prevent it? How and why does UwAmp even have control over Chrome? This is on Windows 10 x64, UwAmp 3.1.0, latest 64-bit Chrome.

Thanks!

EDIT: It just closed Notepad++ on me, so it's not specific to Chrome. There's also a message that pops up sometimes within UwAmp, saying that the process couldn't be killed because access was denied. Maybe UwAmp is trying to kill the wrong process? It also happens when I manually click the "Stop" button.

Answer 1

That's an issue I encounter too. If I exit UwAmp, sometimes it force closes another program (Firefox, qBittorrent, Spotify...)

I had reported this issue to the developer, but got no reply.

So, I guess we'll have to live with it.

Answer 2

A workaround is to open uwamp.ini and change the AUTO_RESTAT_CONFIG_CHANGED to "0".

This will disable uWamp's auto-restart feature during server configuration changes.

Answer 3

When you start your session/computer, open first all the other softwares you wish to use (chrome, firefox, aBittorrent, Sportify or whatsoever). Then at the end, open uwamp.

It shouldn't crash down other softwares when you stop/start apache/mysql, or when you close down uwamp.