Tested the issue on 66.0.3359.117 windows and unable to reproduce this issue. Opened above mentioned tabs, set continue where you left of option, power off and on, opened chrome and observed all sites as opened.

@Reporter: You can set this option by selecting Continue where you left off option in chrome://settings/onStartup. Could you please check the above steps and let us know the behavior.

Thanks!

Hi,

The tabs from the last session are restored, but a new tab is not
opened/launched upon startup.   Ideally, a new tab would be opened going to
a specific URL as indicated by the administrator as well as tabs being
restored from the last session.   My steps just include the current
behavior, not the desired one.   Does this help?

Tx,

Jack

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As per comment#0 and #3 by reporter, this seems to be a feature request hence marking it as Untriaged and requesting someone from "UI>Browser>Sessions" team to have a look into this.

Thanks!

This sounds like a request to have something like a list of mandatory tabs set by policy. Would you expect these to always be the leftmost N tabs in the restored session? What if http://mandatory is set by policy and a user has that tab open at shutdown. Should Chrome:
- restore the user's tabs as they were at the previous shutdown, so that the mandatory tab is wherever it happened to be before
- restore the user's tabs, warping the mandatory tab back to the leftmost tab, so that it's always the first tab on every launch
- restore the user's tabs, inserting a new copy of the mandatory tab on the far left, so that the user now the mandatory tab at two places

The last option seems bad, since we could have an ever-growing set of tabs.

The second option seems a bit bad, since it modifies the user's session.

The first option seems like the right one to me. The tab is "mandatory" in the sense that it must always be present, but its position may vary based on user preferences (i.e., user might want their email to always be the leftmost tab and have the mandatory tabs after that). Ah, but what if the "mandatory" tab is https://mandatory/site and the user has a tab open to https://mandatory/site#foobar or https://mandatory/site/u/0? Do we consider that "close enough" to the mandatory site that we don't add the mandatory site?

So, we could:

- Introduce a new MandatoryRestoreTabs policy in https://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3#RestoreOnStartupGroup that holds a list of URLs. New tabs are inserted at the front of the tab list for these URLs if and only if they are not present in the set of restored tabs.
- Mention this in the documentation for RestoreOnStartup's "Restore the last session" option.
- During session restore, any tabs in MandatoryRestoreTabs that are not present in the set of restored tabs are prepended to the list of restored tabs.

This could work, but I'm concerned about the tab growth issue.

This new policy would not apply to the other RestoreOnStartup options: "Open New Tab Page" and "Open a list of URLs" should both do what they do today.

@grt --- we found a work around to this request where an extension was able to provide the functionality to the customer requesting this.   if other customers are interested in this same function -- they can reach out to the Chrome Specialist team and we can provide further details.  chrome-enterprise-browser-specialists@google.com 

The problem is that other versions of Chrome, let alone Chtome OS do reopen tabs and apps automatically. The settings have an option to "Continue where you left off"that is no longer being done (I think it worked or worked better in maybe 70).