CrashReports folder should be created whenever it is required about omaha HOT 5 CLOSED

Is Chrome accessing this directory via Omaha or directly via file APIs? If it's 
the latter, then this seems like a Chrome bug.

I think it would be better if Chrome could handle the absence of the directory 
since Omaha shouldn't need to create the CrashReports directory until a crash 
occurs and crash reporting is enabled.

Is Chrome accessing this directory via Omaha - YES.

Can you give us more details on the Omaha API it's using?

Is there a separate bug on the browser window crashing? Chrome should be able 
to withstand problems in the tab/API/non-existing directory.

I'm not using any API's directly.
Please follow clear repro steps in the original bug report. Let me know, if you 
are not able to reproduce it !!!

This is an issue with Breakpad, not Omaha.

When the Omaha crash handler starts up, we create the directory and pass its 
path to Breakpad.  If that directory has been deleted, Breakpad needs to either 
detect that and report an error to Omaha, or create it itself.  As it is, 
Breakpad simply reports a process exit without ever hitting our dump callback.

I'd suggest adding your report to the existing bug here:

http://code.google.com/p/google-breakpad/issues/detail?id=298