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Launch new Chrome actions opens up old tabs

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Hello,

 

The problem that i have is that when i use launch new chrome, sometimes it opens up some recently closed tabs.

 

I tried to use clear cookies and clear cache on launch.

 

I followed some steps that i found on some other posts, like disabling chrome from running on background and setting the exit_type to normal but nothing worked.

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  • Ezhilvannan_V Profile Picture
    178 on at
    Re: Launch new Chrome actions opens up old tabs

    Please try terminate action before launching new chrome.

    Ezhilvannan_V_0-1651831641730.png

    Hope this workaround will work

  • vkama Profile Picture
    143 on at
    Re: Launch new Chrome actions opens up old tabs

    I use DOS commands to terminate chrome before and after my process run like this "taskkill /F /IM Chrome.exe" but i'll give it a try.

     

    Thank you.

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    vkama Profile Picture
    143 on at
    Re: Launch new Chrome actions opens up old tabs

    The problem got solved by changing "exit_type":"Crashed"to "none" on the file "Preferences".

    The path for the file is "AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default".

     

    After changing that you basically disable Chrome's popup window "Restore pages" that in my case caused the problem.

  • Ezhilvannan_V Profile Picture
    178 on at
    Re: Launch new Chrome actions opens up old tabs

    Hi @vkama could you please share the screenshot for this workaround you mentioned above it will be helpful for me also.

  • vkama Profile Picture
    143 on at
    Re: Launch new Chrome actions opens up old tabs

    Screenshot 2022-05-11 120448.png

    That's the file that you need to change. Also, after that u need to right click preferences, go to properties and set it to Read-only in order to stop chrome from updating it.

     

    If you need to change something on Chrome like the download folder you need to disable Read-only in order to save the settings.

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