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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Aug 2016
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OS: Mac
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Type: Bug-Regression



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Cannot Disable Session Restore

Reported by johnjmed...@gmail.com, Aug 22 2016 
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.86 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Crash (whether just Chrome or the whole Mac)
2. Start Chrome
3. Watch it re-open a bajillion tabs which crushes the machine, and may be inappropriate to have flash on-screen with someone viewing (hello accidentally showing an employees salary on screen to another employee)

What is the expected behavior?
A flag, switch or other setting to TURN THIS "FEATURE" OFF.

If I want to restore a session, I HAVE AN EXTENSION TO DO SO.

What went wrong?
Re-opens tabs automatically when it SHOULD BE UP TO THE USER TO DECIDE.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 50.0.2661.86  Channel: n/a
OS Version: OS X 10.9.5
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 22.0 r0

The auto-restore is the single most annoying and ridiculous "feature" of Chrome, and is why I tend to use Firefox.

Comment 1 by patricia...@chromium.org, Aug 23 2016

Labels: Needs-Feedback
There should already be a setting for this. Try navigating to chrome:settings in the omnibox. Then under On startup, select the Open the New Tab page radio button. I am guessing you currently have the 'Continue where you left off' option selected.

Have included a screenshot in case you can't find it :) Please reply with whether that worked for you.
Screen Shot 2016-08-23 at 10.32.55.png
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Comment 2 by patricia...@chromium.org, Aug 23 2016

Components: UI>Browser>Sessions

Comment 3 by sky@chromium.org, Aug 23 2016

Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
As comment 1 indicates, you can turn off session restore if you don't want it.

Comment 4 by johnjmed...@gmail.com, Aug 23 2016 

Negative. I have it set for "Open a specific page or set of pages". On a clean start, that works as desired. On any Chrome crash or system crash, it re-opens everything.

Comment 5 by sky@chromium.org, Aug 23 2016 

Are you sure this isn't the extension you mentioned triggering the restore? If you turn on 'continue where you left on' and chrome crashes, on restart chrome will not restore the previous session. Instead you get a prompt telling you chrome crashed with the option to restore.

Comment 6 by johnjmed...@gmail.com, Aug 25 2016 

Seems to occur with or without Session Buddy enabled.

Comment 7 by sky@chromium.org, Aug 25 2016 

Do you have any other extensions installed? You might try with a fresh profile to see if you get different behavior.
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