Page(s) Unresponsive for New Tab and Everything

[dallas7]

I installed Portable 38.0.2050.0 Stable on my Win7x64 system on 11/11. I even got pepper flash up and running.

Today, out of the blue as they say, all that happens when I start it up is Page(s) Unresponsive for... New Tab.

I deleted my Profile folder. No fix.

Here's a screenshot of a clean profile a about 30 seconds into startup; waiting or killing doesn't do anything. I can't open settings, flags, plugins - they all result with a Page(s) Unresponsive for Untitled.

What is up with that? Help, please.

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