The reason I went with a system call is that it was in code I encountered after I made the original post. Also, I hadn't been able to make HTML::Display work with my meager experience. It turns out, that your script runs just fine on my Windows 8 machine:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use WWW::Mechanize;
use HTML::Display;
$ENV{'PERL_HTML_DISPLAY_COMMAND'}='run "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\
+Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" %s';
my $base_url = 'https://www.huntington.com/';

my $spider = WWW::Mechanize->new( autocheck => 1 );
 
$spider->get( $base_url );
die( "$base_url: " . $spider->response->status_line ) unless $spider->
+success;

my $browser = HTML::Display->new();
$browser->display( html => $spider->content( base_href => $base_url ) 
+);

__END__
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So it is that I have to admit that I have another error from the original post, namely that HTML::Display seems to work fine as long as it's called correctly, in particular, with a base_url properly specified.

I have to attend to the pesky invasion of real life, so I'll leave it with that.