Kiran, can you please give a try?

scottcopus@ Could you confirm whether this issue is similar to  Issue 782684  &  Issue 703809 

Assigned to Matt as it is a Windows issue.

kkaluri@...

 Issue 782684  seems similar effect, but may not be. This issue involves specifying only first_run_tabs. However, I'm specifically setting show_welcome_page to false. But these two settings may be somewhat related or interconnected at least when I reviewed the code.

Comment 10 by tmartino@ (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=782684#c10) contradicts my point of view though. In my environment, students, faculty, and staff use our university's labs and classrooms. We don't utilize Windows roaming profiles. So essentially every user's login is a new Windows profile, and therefore a new Chrome profile. I always want our home page to show up and never another tab containing the welcome page. It's confusing that it shows up on only the 2nd launch regardless. See my initial comment about "has_seen_welcome_page" as a possible culprit or logic flow in the code. I actually want to keep sign-in enabled for anyone who may want to use it, but suppress showing the welcome page at all launches (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc).

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grt@ As per comment #7 could you please look into this issue...

Thank You...

The "show_welcome_page" master preference was removed in Chrome 26 (see issue 165469), so this is a dup of  issue 703809 . Marking it as such.

The scenario described in comment 6 makes total sense -- we need to provide a way for you to suppress this page. Do you use GP to push policies to the Chrome installs in your fleet? If any knew knobs are needed to control this behavior, I would rather make them policies rather than master_preferences options. Thanks.

grt@  Yes, we use GP heavily to push policies in our fleet. Being able to replace every setting in the master_preferences file would be a good leap forward in Chrome management for us. But for the time being I'm fine with just the fixing of the "show_welcome_page" setting to be disabled/suppressed on all launches... not just the 1st, 2nd, etc. Thanks for listening! 

Ah! If your machines are joined to a domain, then as of Chrome 64 you can set the RestoreOnStartup (https://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3#RestoreOnStartup) policy to any value to suppress the new welcome page (this was the resolution to  issue 756545 ). Will that meet your needs?

In the meantime, I will continue investigating suppressing the welcome pages on subsequent launches when distribution.first_run_tabs is set, but this certainly won't make it into Chrome 64.

grt@ I'm already using that RestoreOnStartup in a GPO. It's set to "open a list of URLs" with our one school homepage in it. Despite this, Chrome (62.0.3202.94) still shows the welcome page on ONLY its 2nd launch.  I think I already searched through the list for any other relevant policies and haven't found anything yet that could alleviate this particular issue. Any other ideas?

BTW, according to https://www.chromium.org/administrators/configuring-other-preferences, first_run_tabs isn't under the distribution branch. It's in the root. If its location changes, please update the various documentation pages out there.  :)

Thanks for hearing out this bug!

Sorry grt@, I didn't see until just now you said Chrome 64. I assume you mean version 64 and not x64?  If so I guess I'll have to wait until general availability of version 64 to see this issue resolve itself?  No problem, just asking.

Ah, my mistake: it is first_run_tabs at the root, not in distribution.

Yes, the GPO fix is in Chrome version 64, not the x64 build of Chrome.

So the good news is that this will magically fix itself once Chrome 64 hits stable channel and you update your fleet. The bad news is that there's no immediate fix.

Let me know when this fix hits Dev or Canary and I'll check it out in my environment. Sorry, I'm not a Chrome dev, so I don't know how to check if an issue got pushed to certain branches.  Thanks again!

The fix is in the current dev channel release. Let us know if it doesn't work for you.

grt@ Bug fixed! Chrome 64.0.3278.0 dev 64-bit worked great. The 2nd (and subsequent) launches no longer mistakenly show the welcome page. Great work! Thanks

I'm glad it's working for you. The fix was all pastarmovj@, so I can't claim any credit. :-) . I'll pass along the thanks.