Disabling the Restore Pages prompt in Google Chrome

Disabling the Restore Pages prompt in Google Chrome

Normally when Google Chrome crashes or otherwise closes unexpectedly, it will prompt the user to ask if they want to re-open the previously open tabs. This can be annoying when Chrome is used for viewing a dashboard on an unattended device. These instructions will explain how to disable that prompt and automatically reopen the previously open page(s).

  1. In Windows, go to C:\Users\[your username]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
  2. Right click "Preferences" file and click Open with. Select a text editor such as Notepad. Ctrl+F to find the following values, and change the value to:
    1. "exit_type":"none"
    2. "exited_cleanly":"true"1
  3. Save the file when finished.
  4. Now, right click the Preferences file and select Properties.
  5. Under "Attributes", enable "Read-only" and click OK.


After this change Chrome should automatically reopen closed pages after a crash.
Notes
1The "exited_cleanly" value may not exist, in which case it can be skipped.


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