--load-component-extension crashes Chrome

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Running Chrome from the command line with --load-component-extension 
pointing at an extension directory causes Chrome to crash. For example:

/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome 
--load-component-extension=/Users/meghanmcqueeney/chrome 
--ignore-certificate-errors --remote-debugging-port=60968 
--user-data-dir=/var/folders/68/7dczxqcj6_99qg96kh_jk3lr0000gn/T/.org.chromium.C
hromium.YHaAka --ignore-certificate-errors --metrics-recording-only 
data:text/html;charset=utf8

The same directory loads fine through the "load unpacked extension" option in 
the Chrome browser itself.

I have attached the crash report, the chromedriver.log and a zip of the 
extension directory. 

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
ChromeDriver = 2.2
Chrome = 29.0.1547.57
OS = Mac OS X 10.8.4

Please attach chromedriver.log to your bug report if possible.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by meg...@yesware.com on 29 Aug 2013 at 3:31

Attachments:

rshf / chromedriver

--load-component-extension crashes Chrome #500