React Kiosk App keeps crashing on Chrome - Chrome not Responding - reactjs

We have a Kiosk app which runs on Chrome Kiosk mode and is written in React JS. But for some of our Kiosk machines (All of our machines are Windows machines), it seems to be crashing regularly (Approx. %4 of the devices) without any user input or fixed time between crashes.
I reviewed the code several times but never found any background tasks running, or any reason for the Chrome to crash at all.
Because the crashes are irregular, I cannot connect to a problematic device and wait for it to crash for hours to debug the process. And because the app is automatically started via a VB script when Windows is started, the clients often "solve" the crashes by restarting the Kiosk machine, which is time consuming and leads to tons of complaints.
So my questions are;
Can I somehow force Chrome to restart, or lets say Go to first page in history if it crashes?
Can I catch errors globally without using ErrorBoundries in JavaScript (It is already implemented and is used for other things)
I tried using --remote-debugging-port=9222 to use Developer Tools, but I need to be connected to the machine and go to localhost:9222 port manually to use this and cannot afford to be connected to the device all the time. So is there a way to connect and use Developer Tools on 9222 port remotely?
I tried saving console logs to a file (using Chrome Command Line Arguments) but never saw any "Errors" on the list, so is there any arguments to help me save crash logs to a file to inspect them after the crash?
Thanks for all your help.

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My initial setup was UV5.23, I updated to 5.24 and made tentative with 5.25 on Keil's request.
I have a dedicated SDK release for UV5.23, I switched to a new one for UV5.24.
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I tried uninstalling KB4099989, but there was no change, the problem is still present.
Is there a link with these updates?
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As a workaround goto the below location in registry,
My Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers
and delete the unload registry path. Everytime if there is a new crash then the dll will be added back which needs to be removed.
[work around]
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It works great if I keep the application open until the transfer completes.
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But it doesn't work if the application is restarted (rerun normally) before the transfer is finished. Simply put, there is no sign of error, the UploadOperation status is running but nothing happens anymore regarding this upload request.
I can see using WireShark that the transfer is stopped:
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I'am developing windows store application. Sometimes application gets hang and crash. In the development environment is there any best way to get crash reports and analyze those reports. I have gone through some articles regarding application crashes. In those they've mentioned about windows application logs and report.wer files. But those files not contained much information about application crash (like stack trace). Please help.
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For each application you can download excel file, where you can see all occurred exceptions and stack trace for each exception.
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(Automatic send mode is not recommended, just for option)
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It was as hard to write a good title for this issue as it was to search the web for it.
I have a lot of projects, some are in maintenance (they have been productive for years) and others in active development. This is an important fact because the problem happens on all projects on my computer and not on others.
The problem is that I run all web projects on tomcat and they all have database connections. I always used the "Terminate" button in favor of the "Stop" button to restart or stop tomcat from eclipse.
For those who dont know, the terminate button is the red button that stops the app from the log console or the debug console, while the stop button is the same red button but on the servers console.
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Upgraded to Indigo
Reinstalled Galileo (even downloaded a fresh copy)
Reinstalled and tried different databases
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