Apple - Clicking on external links opens Chrome but not the link

I had this happening all afternoon. Then I checked Chrome | About Chrome and it was waiting for me to relaunch to update. That fixed it.

Try entering chrome://restart in url line and hit enter. This will fully restart Chrome and all of it's children processes including Chrome-based apps. I assume it's not the Update which helped others here, but the Chrome restart.

Updating Chrome solved the issue for me.

NOTE: The problem can reproduce each time a new version of Chrome is available...