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OS: Windows
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Clicking links to open in Chrome from other applications sometimes switch to other desktop (multiple desktops)

Reported by ch...@chris-alexander.co.uk, Sep 5 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Log on to a Windows 10 machine where Chrome is the default browser
2. Start Chrome
3. Open an application which contains a link to open in Chrome (e.g. outlook with emailed link)
4. Create a new virtual desktop (Win + Tab, "+ New Desktop" button) and switch to it
5. On Desktop 2 (the new one), open Chrome and browse happily
6. Switch back to Desktop 1 (the one with the original Chrome and Outlook etc. on it) (Win + Tab and then click Desktop 1)
7. Interact with Chrome in any way, *EXCEPT* opening a new tab
8. Click the link in the external application (e.g. Outlook) so that Chrome opens the web page
9. Chrome opens the web page but in the window on Desktop 2, not taking account that you are currently using Desktop 1. This causes a complete context switch to the other desktop.

What is the expected behavior?
Open the link in the last-used Chrome window on Desktop 1

What went wrong?
The link was opened in the Chrome window on Desktop 2, causing the virtual desktop to switch. The actual behaviour appears to be the link is opened in a new tab in the window where the last new tab was created.

Did this work before? No 

Chrome version: 52.0.2743.116  Channel: stable
OS Version: 10.0
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 22.0 r0

Ideally the behaviour would be that window that last opened a tab on the *current virtual desktop* were used to open links from external applications.
 
This is similar to mine  Issue #590746 
Current List of related issues:
 Issue #644079 
 Issue #590746 
Issue #546480
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Comment 3 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Sep 28 2017

Status: Archived (was: Unconfirmed)
Issue has not been modified or commented on in the last 365 days, please re-open or file a new bug if this is still an issue.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
Still an issue.  Please reopen.  And its kinda rude to close an issue without even giving an opportunity to comment beforehand.
Status: Unconfirmed (was: Archived)
 Issue 769764  has been merged into this issue.
 Issue 590746  has been merged into this issue.
Labels: Hotlist-ConOps Hotlist-ConOps-Source-Feedback
Status: Archived (was: Unconfirmed)
Archiving old bugs that haven't been actively assigned in over 180 days.

If you feel this issue should still be addressed, feel free to reopen it or to file a new issue. Thanks!

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