Issue 140017 in chromium: Chome keeps getting added to Login Items for automatic start on login

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Status: Unconfirmed
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Labels: OS-Mac Area-Undefined Pri-2 Type-Bug

New issue 140017 by ramer...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting added to Login
Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Chrome Version : 21.0.1180.57
OS Version: OS X 10.7.4

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Update to new version
2. Chrome is added to login items
3. Reboot and relogin

What is the expected result?
System starts as expected without Chrome automatically launching

What happens instead?
Chrome launches as it adds itself to login items.

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Comment #1 on issue 140017 by rse...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Can you show a screen shot of the login items preferences? Chrome shouldn't
be doing that. Are you sure you're not mixing up the automatic window
restoration feature in 10.7?

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Comment #2 on issue 140017 by swro...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting added

to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Attached is a screenshot. If you remove it here, it'll come back when
Chrome updates itself.

Attachments:
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Comment #3 on issue 140017 by ramer...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting added

to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

My system show similar details as the screenshot attached above.

I have the "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps" checkbox
unchecked in the General Preferences Tab. Also I quit all open apps when
logging out of my system.

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Comment #9 on issue 140017 by swro...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting added

to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

I'll check next time there's an update. I do have GMail Offline in
Background Apps when I right-click

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Comment #10 on issue 140017 by ramer...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

The only item that shows up under Background Apps is "Gmail Offline"

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Updates:
Status: Assigned
Owner: atwil...@chromium.org
Labels: Mstone-22

Comment #11 on issue 140017 by ke...@google.com: Chome keeps getting added

to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

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Comment #12 on issue 140017 by m...@mitjaveil.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

i just discovered that chrome has been added to the login list again.
i've been disabling and re-enabling all my extensions today to test some
behaviour, it seems that when an extension that is running in the
background is re-activated, it triggers chrome to add itself to the login
list.

i just successfully confirmed it.

Attachments:
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Comment #13 on issue 140017 by m...@mitjaveil.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

i just discovered that chrome has been added to the login list again.
i've been disabling and re-enabling all my extensions today to test some
behaviour, it seems that when an extension that is running in the
background is re-activated, it triggers chrome to add itself to the login
list.

i just successfully confirmed it with "chat for google".

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Comment #14 on issue 140017 by atwil...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

This is the expected behavior (going from 0 background apps to 1 background
apps will re-enable the login item). It should not happen on a chrome
upgrade, however.

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Comment #15 on issue 140017 by ramer...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Would an update to an extension that provided a background app also trigger
this? Why is it expected behaviour to add Chrome to the list of login items
at all?

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Comment #16 on issue 140017 by atwil...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

An update to an extension should not trigger this (and in any case, an
update to an extension shouldn't require a chrome relaunch). There are
tests to ensure that upgraded extensions don't toggle background mode, but
it's possible that there are bugs in this code.

If you install a background app or extension, the idea is that this app
should launch at startup and run in the background even when there are no
chrome windows - the analogy is to a standalone email notifier or IM
program. On the Mac, we already keep Chrome running when the last window is
closed, so the only change is to ensure that we have a login item to launch
at startup.

Right now, when the number of background apps goes from 0->1 we create a
login item if there isn't one already. As noted in comment 13, removing the
login item, then disabling/re-enabling a background app can cause the login
item to reappear - since we probably don't ever want to recreate a login
item if the user has deleted the one we created previously, we should
probably keep a pref around to track this.

I'm curious whether we are seeing this behavior in any situation where
people did not disable/re-enable extensions (such as during a browser
upgrade, as the original reporter mentioned)?

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Comment #17 on issue 140017 by capodi...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

My Chrome keeps adding itself to the login items, time to time, without
apparent reason... The background apps I have are "Gmail Offline"
and "Google Drive". They are there since long time, and anyway the problem
manifested itself even before I installed this two apps. I do use "Little
Snitch" as firewall, so I see when Google Chrome asks for updates. I did
not notice any correlation to Chrome adding itself to the login items with
downloading updates (be them either Chrome updates or OSX updates in
general) or correlations with enabling or disabling extensions (which I
don't use). Chrome automatically adds itself to the login items with an
average of once every 2 months, at user login (or at least this is when I
notice it). It starts without any window (while when I manually start
Chrome I have a window with 4 preset tabs). I notice it did add itself
because when I click the doc icon to launch it, it opens a new window with
no preset home pages. I'm glad to see that several other people have this
problem, as for a while I thought to a trojan/spyware or virus that used
Chrome as platform, thus needed it to launch at login. I uninstalled (zap)
Chrome several times, and downloaded a fresh copy from Google, and made
sure to disable the option "Open at Login", but I kept having the same
problem.

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Comment #18 on issue 140017 by atwil...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

I have a patch out for review which *should* keep this from happening, but
it's hard to test because I only know of one trigger case (enabling and
disabling an extension).

I have a strong suspicion that upgrades to background apps may be
triggering this, and my fix should address that case, but if anyone can
narrow down a different fail case please let me know.

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Updates:
Status: Fixed
Labels: -Mstone-22 Mstone-23

Comment #21 on issue 140017 by atwil...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

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Comment #22 on issue 140017 by ivanwh...@me.com: Chome keeps getting added

to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

I have the exact same problem. Not sure if it happens after an update or
not (I haven't noticed). Vhrome just randomly keeps adding itself to my
login items on Mac.

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Updates:
Cc: meh...@chromium.org

Comment #24 on issue 140017 by sa...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting added

to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Issue 179602 has been merged into this issue.

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Updates:
Status: Assigned
Owner: sa...@chromium.org

Comment #25 on issue 140017 by sa...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting added

to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Looks like this was not fixed.
Investigating.

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Updates:
Labels: -Restrict-AddIssueComment-Commit

Comment #26 on issue 140017 by sa...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting added

to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

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Comment #27 on issue 140017 by atwi...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

If anyone has a reproducible case, I'm happy to investigate further as
well. I have not been able to see any reproducible cases outside of users
disabling/re-enabling background apps.

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Comment #31 on issue 140017 by ivuc...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting added

to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

I understand that you guys want Chrome to relaunch at system restart to
allow background apps to run... but I don't need yet another application
(and a heavyweight such as a browser!) to start automatically on my machine.

Why not add an option to chrome://flags to disable automatically adding
Open at Login?

I've had to disable several apps and extensions that I like using. The
alternative is stopping using Chrome once again, and spreading the word.
Applications that does not respect my wishes that they don't start up
automatically are -- malware. (Same goes for Chrome's silent, hard to
uninstall autoupdater on OS X.)

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Comment #32 on issue 140017 by sa...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting added

to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Hi ivucica. What I'd like to do is track when the user removes Chrome from
Login Items. Once Chrome is removed it wouldn't be re-added, even if the
user installs new background extensions.

Unfortunately I don't have time to work on this now.

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Comment #33 on issue 140017 by ivuc...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting added

to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Sail,, that's the ideal solution. But how about a stop-gap measure that I
proposed: adding a flag in chrome://flags that prevents adding the login
item? :-)

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Comment #34 on issue 140017 by rik...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting added

to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

I have the same problem and it happens every time I start Chrome. Version
25.0.1364.160 on Mac OS 10.8.3.

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Comment #35 on issue 140017 by mbur...@degesso.de: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Same here. Under Mac OS X 10.7.5, Chrome (version 26.0.1410.43) is added to
my Login Items from time to time. Unfortunately, up to now I could not see
any connection between this odd behavior and my usage of Chrome.

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Comment #37 on issue 140017 by nob...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting added

to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Feedly extension user here as well, I too can reproduce #30's exact
symptoms and result. Running OS X 10.8.3 and Chrome 22.0.1229.94

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Comment #39 on issue 140017 by wilhe...@fcsuvt.org: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

I've just starting noticing this behavior myself on OS X 10.8.3. My guess
is "Chat for Google" is triggering this new behavior. I will continue to
explore exactly when this gets added to my login list and get back.

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Comment #42 on issue 140017 by ChrisARa...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

@atwi...@chromium.org #41: All these "should" not be happenings are great.
Except it continues to happen for me and I am not changing,enabling,
disabling background apps. Indeed, even LOCKING my apple.com.loginitems
plist did not prevent Chrome once again being added to my Login Items a few
days ago on my home laptop running 10.6.8, with no action on my part
whatsoever as to background apps. So what "should" happen is not what is
actually happening. For me the end user, it is frustrating beyond words to
keep hearing that it shouldn't happen.

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Comment #44 on issue 140017 by atwi...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

To be clear, I don't think it's fixed Canary - I said I tested it in
canary, since that's what I had handy on my Mac. But as far as I know this
code has not changed between Canary and Stable, so I don't think there are
any fixes pending.

I understand this is frustrating for users - all I was trying to capture in
my comment was that:

a) some of the "issues" reported (such as comment #30) are actually Chrome
working as intended. If you install a background app, chrome will create a
login item to support it.
b) the intent is that Chrome will detect when the user has deleted this
login item and will not re-create it. There is code to do this as of Chrome
23, and I've verified that it works on my machine. Chrome is *trying* to be
a well behaved app, at least :)
c) there's clearly some bug here, and if I can reproduce it locally, I can
fix it.

Chris, what version of Chrome are you running? If you remove the login item
by unchecking the "Open at Login" checkbox, at what point does it get
recreated - after every restart? On the next upgrade? Randomly while Chrome
is running?

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Comment #45 on issue 140017 by ramer...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

I'm running 26.0.1410.43 and from what I can tell it seems to be getting
re-added to login items sometime when Chrome is running. It doesn't always
get re-added, but I've seen this on 3 different machines.

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Comment #46 on issue 140017 by atwi...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Interesting. How often does it seem to get re-added? If anyone can help
figure out what's triggering this, I'd appreciate it.

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Comment #47 on issue 140017 by ramer...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

From what I can tell it's when the background extensions are updated. For
example I have three background apps running, Gmail Offline, Feedly, and
Todoist. I remove Chrome from the list of login items and then disable and
then re-enable one of the background extensions, this then causes Chrome to
be added to the list of login items. I remove it again and after
disabling/re-enabling a background extension it's again added.

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Comment #48 on issue 140017 by ramer...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Just a data point, the update from 26.0.1410.43 to 26.0.1410.63 did not add
a new login item for me.

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Updates:
Labels: -M-23 M-27 ReleaseBlock-Beta

Comment #50 on issue 140017 by atwi...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

I've been able to reproduce at least part of this issue by installing
multiple background apps at once - I'm investigating locally and hopefully
will have a fix for Chrome 27.

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Comment #51 on issue 140017 by chadwick...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

why is this on my phone what is this

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Updates:
Owner: atwi...@chromium.org
Cc: sa...@chromium.org

Comment #52 on issue 140017 by atwi...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

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Comment #53 on issue 140017 by atwi...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

For the record, here's the fail case I found:

1) Install a background app.
2) Right click on the dock item and uncheck "Open at Login".
3) Install another background app.
4) See that "Open at Login" is checked *again*.

I suspect that if you unchecked "Open at Login" again, it would get set
again the next time you installed a background app, or one of your
background apps were upgraded.

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Comment #54 on issue 140017 by t...@tassoft.com: Chome keeps getting added

to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

I can report that this is happening here on my machine (10.8.3, latest
stable Chrome) as well. Seems to be triggered by Feedly.

While #38 is a functioning workaround, there really should be a proper
Chrome Setting so that it never installs itself to the Login items.

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Comment #55 on issue 140017 by ChrisARa...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

#49 Not so fast. Even though I locked that plist, a couple of days later,
Chrome once again inserted itself into the list of login items. Please note
that unlike many other commenters, I literally REMOVE Chrome from the Login
Items list, not just uncheck the box, which simply shows/hides the app. So
how on earth an app can overcome a locked plist file is beyond me. And I
installed Feedly in Chrome on my work Macbook yesterday and boom, there's
Chrome in the login items next time I started up. This is version
26.0.1410.65.

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Comment #56 on issue 140017 by bugdro...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017#c56

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r193922 | atwi...@chromium.org | 2013-04-12T14:17:11.384415Z

Changed paths:
M
http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/browser/background/background_mode_manager.cc?r1=193922&r2=193921&pathrev=193922
M
http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/browser/background/background_mode_manager_mac.mm?r1=193922&r2=193921&pathrev=193922
M
http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/common/pref_names.cc?r1=193922&r2=193921&pathrev=193922
M
http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/common/pref_names.h?r1=193922&r2=193921&pathrev=193922

Fix issue with login items getting recreated.

Added code to track whether chrome has created a login item so we know if
it is
safe to delete it and can avoid re-creating it. This flag is also used to
do a
better job of determining if a user has deleted the login item.

BUG=140017

Review URL: https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/13982009
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Comment #60 on issue 140017 by atwi...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

So, my fix is now out on the dev channel. I would ask everyone who has been
experiencing this issue and are running the dev channel software to:

a) Restart chrome. This may re-create a login item.
b) Remove the login item by unchecking the "Open at login" checkbox
c) Report back here if you ever see chrome create another login item.

It is important that you do steps a) and b) first (i.e. it is expected that
Chrome may create a login item one last time, but it should never do so
again).

Thanks for your continued help tracking this one down, and apologies for
all of the frustration.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Status: Fixed

Comment #61 on issue 140017 by atwi...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

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Comment #62 on issue 140017 by unlu...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting added

to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Same for me too, this is really starting to piss me off and I'm seriously
thinking about trashing chrome and chromium forever. Guys there's no point
for a browser to auto-start at boot time, this is NOT windows...

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Comment #63 on issue 140017 by atwi...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

unlucio: What version of the software are you running? As I mentioned
above, this should be fixed in M28. I'd be interested in hearing if people
running M28 are still seeing this problem.

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Comment #64 on issue 140017 by ramer...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

I updated my home machine to follow the beta channel once M28 was promoted
to beta and I've yet to see this issue since updating.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #66 on issue 140017 by noblevi...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Still have this issue - running 27.0.1453.110 on 10.8.4.

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Comment #68 on issue 140017 by trs...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting added

to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Chrome version: 28.0.1500.71
OS X version: 10.8.4

I clearly remember right clicking the dock icon and unchecking Open at
Login within the last few days. I had to do it again today. Very surprised,
like I'm happy it is not an indication that my system is compromised after
seeing many have the problem.

Also, I haven't found this to happen until recently. And I added a couple
of extensions recently. Listing them below.
India Rail Info 4.141
DownFlickr - Flickr Downloader 0.5.1

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Comment #69 on issue 140017 by patrickp...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Chrome 28.0.1500.71
OS X 10.8.4

Today I manually crashed the Gmail Offline background app and restarted it.
And the next time I turned on my computer, Chrome was a login item. I have
removed Chrome from login items many times, but it keeps adding itself
back. If Chrome could somehow run the background apps as separate processes
without launching the entire browser, this wouldn't be so annoying. (I
don't know enough about the inner workings of a mac to know if that's even
possible though.) My computer takes long enough to start up as it is.

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Comment #70 on issue 140017 by ChrisARa...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

To everyone who notes that the Uncheck Open at Login: That does NOT remove
Chrome from the login items. You must use the minus icon at the bottom of
the screen to actually remove it from the list.

I have not had this problem anymore since about 2 months ago.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #71 on issue 140017 by atwi...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

For people that are still seeing this issue on M28 stable, do you have
multiple profiles?

If you navigate to about:chrome, you can view your profile path. For the
canary version of Chrome, my profile path is
/Users/atwilson/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome Canary/Default

If you go to the parent directory of your profile (in my case, under
Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome Canary/) and look at the Local
State file, you should see a section titled "background_mode".

By default, when you've installed a background app, this section should
look like this:

"background_mode": {
"chrome_created_login_item": true,
"migrated_login_item_pref": true
},

If you then uncheck the "Open at Login" checkbox, and disable/re-enable the
background app, we should detect that you've unchecked the box, and this
section should now look like:

"background_mode": {
"chrome_created_login_item": true,
"migrated_login_item_pref": true,
"user_removed_login_item": true
},

This "user_removed_login_item" line is the one that tells Chrome that
you've unchecked the box and it shouldn't try to add a new login item. If
you are seeing this issue on Chrome 28 or later, please take a look at this
Local State file and let me know what values you are seeing in
your "background_mode" section.

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Comment #72 on issue 140017 by nordto...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Okay.

This (launching on login) has happened to me again yesterday and today.
Last time, it was solved by simply removing Feedly.

Now, I followed the instructions above. But "background_mode" never looked
like yours. Before I had made any new changes, it was

"background_mode": {
"chrome_created_login_item": true,
"migrated_login_item_pref": true,

"user_created_login_item": true
},

… Which I don't think was not true at the time. (There was no checkmark in
the dock, nor Chrome in startup items.) I had removed it, and had not
created any login item.

After following the instructions, it read:

"background_mode": {
"migrated_login_item_pref": true,
"user_created_login_item": true,
"user_removed_login_item": true
},

(Which seems a bit contradictory to me, but … I dunno)

I am on a MacBook, running OSX 10.8.4 and Chrome 28.0.1500.71. Background
apps: Gmail Offline and Google Hangouts (+ a bunch of ordinary extensions)

As I'm writing this, there's still no checkmark in Dock or reappeared
Chrome in Users > Startup Items, but I'll check back in when/if they
reappear.

Hope this helps.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #73 on issue 140017 by nordto...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Oh, and No I don't have multiple profiles.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #74 on issue 140017 by atwi...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

That's really useful information.

That "user_created_login_item" pref is an obsolete pref (Chrome tries to
avoid deleting login items that the user created, and this is how we used
to track the fact that Chrome thought that you had manually created a login
item - the old code that set this preference was buggy, which is why we no
longer look at this value).

In Chrome 28, we changed how we track this - the most important preference
is "user_removed_login_item". If that's set to true, we should never add
another login item (per the code here:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/chrome/browser/background/background_mode_manager_mac.mm&q=kUserRemovedLoginItem&sq=package:chromium&l=23)

So I'd be very interested to see if you ever see another LoginItem created
- in theory it should not be possible with the new Chrome 28
implementation, although clearly some people are still seeing this.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #75 on issue 140017 by atwi...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Issue 307521 has been merged into this issue.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #76 on issue 140017 by surely.y...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

I just want to add that this is still not fixed as of Chrome 34.0.1847.116.
I'm still having Chrome re-add itself to my startup list. When I
right-click the dock icon I see no background apps, but when I open
chrome's task manager I see "Background page: Google Drive." Is this the
same sort of "background app" that might cause the problem? Also, in the
Local State file, it says '"background_apps": true' - I don't know if
that's related.

More to the point, though, it's totally inappropriate for an app to ever
silently add itself to open at startup without asking or even notifying the
user. That puts it into the sketchy, borderline-malware territory, as most
users will have no idea how to change this if it's not what they want.
Chrome should display a dialog saying, "Would you like to start Chrome at
login to allow the extension ........ to run in the background?"

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #77 on issue 140017 by tmarb...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

not fixed.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #78 on issue 140017 by atwi...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

For people running into this issue, can you please read the instructions on
comment #71 and post the before-and-after versions of the "background_mode"
section of that file?

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #79 on issue 140017 by steve.ra...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

"background_mode": {
"chrome_created_login_item": true,
"migrated_login_item_pref": true
},

"browser": {
"last_redirect_origin": ""
},
"geolocation": {
"access_token": {

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Comment #80 on issue 140017 by atwi...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Interesting, it looks like Chrome doesn't even realize you've unchecked
the "Open at Login" checkbox in the dock menu. After you unchecked this,
did you disable/re-enable your background app, or restart chrome, or
something else?

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #82 on issue 140017 by d...@bitmono.com: Chome keeps getting added

to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

It's unbelievable to me that this is still happening. No application should
add itself to login items without user consent, and if it does there should
at minimum be a setting within Chrome to enable/disable "start at login".
On my MacBook Air, battery life is halved when Chrome is running, this is
not just an inconvenience it is downright hostile behaviour.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #83 on issue 140017 by atwi...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

#81: if you see the login item created again, please (before you remove it)
look at the Local State file and let me know what you see there in the
background_mode section. The user_removed_login_item pref should prevent
login items from ever being created again so I'm curious to see if there's
just some other issue happening, or if somehow your Local State file is
getting corrupted to remove that entry.

#82: If you're seeing this behavior, please post the contents of your
background_mode section of the Local State file as described in comment
#71. Under what circumstances do you see this "Open at Login" flag get
turned back on - is it random, or does it happen after every restart and/or
upgrade?

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #84 on issue 140017 by smscot...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

I'm using 37.0.2062.122

Background mode section:

"background_mode": {
"chrome_created_login_item": true,
"migrated_login_item_pref": true,

"user_removed_login_item": true
},

Chrome opens on login. Each time, I see the "open at login" option has been
re-checked. So I:

* uncheck the item
* close Chrome
* re-open Chrome to check that it is still unchecked, which it is.
Unchecked, that is.
* close Chrome
* log out
* log back in
* watch Chrome start automatically.

Yes, this is absolutely user-hostile. My next move is to uninstall Chrome.
This is deeply unacceptable. I don't like swearing in public forums, so
I'll leave to your imagination the kind of curses I'm shouting at you.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #85 on issue 140017 by atwi...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Definitely sorry this is still happening - I'm doing my best to track down
this issue. Thanks for your help tracking this down.

A few more questions:

1) Are you using multi-profile?
2) How are you closing Chrome (I assume you are using cmd-Q to exit Chrome,
you aren't just closing the windows)?
3) When you close Chrome, is the "Open at Login" checkbox still checked
after chrome exits?
4) When you exit, do you have the "Reopen windows when logging back in"
checkbox checked?

What's weird, is if you close Chrome, then Chrome isn't running any longer
so it can't actually set the checkbox again. So if what you're saying is
true, then either Chrome itself is re-enabling the checkbox before you
exit, or else something else in the system is setting the checkbox.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Status: Assigned

Comment #87 on issue 140017 by atwi...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

re-opening bug to make it easier to find, so hopefully people can
contribute debugging/repro information.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #88 on issue 140017 by rse...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Issue 167871 has been merged into this issue.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #89 on issue 140017 by atwi...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #90 on issue 140017 by rse...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

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Comment #91 on issue 140017 by ms.ch...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Hi, I followed instructions under #71 above, and did see
the "user_removed_login_item": true line added after I removed Chrome from
login items. I am, however, still experiencing the same problem as
described in #84, and I'm using the most current version of Chrome,
40.0.2214.115 (64-bit). Is there a solution to prevent Chrome from opening
on startup?

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #92 on issue 140017 by atwi...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Can you answer the other questions I posted in comment #85? That will help
me track this down further.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #93 on issue 140017 by meh...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Issue 483109 has been merged into this issue.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Labels: -M-28 M-47

Comment #94 on issue 140017 by lafo...@google.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Modernizing the milestone.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #98 on issue 140017 by computat...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

I'm uninstalling chrome too

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #99 on issue 140017 by jsj...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting added

to Login Items for automatic start on login
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

It's Chrome Version 46 now, and this annoying 'feature' still exist. Good
job.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #100 on issue 140017 by atwil...@google.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Sorry this is happening for people still, but if you read the history of
the bug you'll see that I have been unable to reproduce this locally and
have asked people for debugging information (see comment #71 and #85). Any
information you guys can provide would be very appreciated!

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #102 on issue 140017 by mp.andro...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Same problem for me with 46.0.2490.80 (64-bit) and OSX El Capitan

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #103 on issue 140017 by atwil...@google.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Please read comments #71 and #85 and provide the necessary debugging
information, otherwise I cannot help.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #104 on issue 140017 by djmicke...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

tup Google Chrome starts up by itself. Don't want this to happen. It is NOT
checked off to do this.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #105 on issue 140017 by patryk.w...@rst-it.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

1) Are you using multi-profile?
2) How are you closing Chrome (I assume you are using cmd-Q to exit Chrome,
you aren't just closing the windows)?
3) When you close Chrome, is the "Open at Login" checkbox still checked
after chrome exits?
4) When you exit, do you have the "Reopen windows when logging back in"
checkbox checked?

Ad. 1 - No
Ad. 2 - cmd-Q
Ad. 3 - No
Ad. 4 - Yes

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #106 on issue 140017 by atwi...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Thanks, this is super useful! Wow, your answer to #3 really has me puzzled.
So, to be clear:

1) You hit cmd-Q and Chrome exits.
2) You right click on the Chrome icon in the dock/applications list,
and "Open at Login" is not checked.
3) You restart your Mac.
4) Chrome launches at startup?

When Chrome launches at startup in step #4, if you right click on Chrome,
is "Open at Login" checked at that time?

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #107 on issue 140017 by patryk.w...@rst-it.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Yes exactly.
I am using El Capitan. And I double checked - field "Open at Login" is not
checked any time. However, I have in Chrome settings set up start location
to revert tabs and cards from last session.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #108 on issue 140017 by patryk.w...@rst-it.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Also from System preferences I deleted few days ago Chrome to start at
login from System Preferences->Users->Select my profile (other is Guest
account)->go to Tab "Login"-> And Chrome is not on the list

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #109 on issue 140017 by atwi...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

When chrome launches at startup, does it open a window? Or just open
silently with no windows?

Can you go to Settings->Users & Groups->Login Items to tell me which login
items are present? I'm trying to understand why Chrome is getting launched
on startup if it doesn't have the "Open at Login" checkbox set? Maybe
another app is trying to open an HTML page and that's launching Chrome?

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #110 on issue 140017 by patryk.w...@rst-it.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

It opens in window being present automatically with tabs from last session.
I have launched with startup:
fuspredownload, KiesAgent

There are also on the list however deactivated (not checked in):
Google Drive
iTunes Helper

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #111 on issue 140017 by atwi...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Can you remove the Google Drive login item entirely (don't just leave it
with the "Hide" button checked/unchecked) and see if Chrome still launches
on startup?

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #112 on issue 140017 by patryk.w...@rst-it.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Yes, it's resolving the problem.
However it's strange, as GDrive was deactivated on the list (so to keep it
disabled with startup position on the list need to be completely removed).
Also on Google Chrome I didn't have opened Drive pages

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #113 on issue 140017 by atwi...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

I'm not familiar with El Capitan, so I don't know what it means to have a
login item disabled in the list (in OSX 10.9.5 which I'm still running, I
just have a "Hide" checkbox which makes the item launch on startup, but
without opening any windows).

BTW, what version of the Google Drive app do you have installed? I just ran
with v1.26.0707.2863 and didn't see this issue.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #114 on issue 140017 by patryk.w...@rst-it.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

1.25.0523.2491
I will try to update it and play little bit more around.
Thanks!

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #115 on issue 140017 by mp.andro...@gmail.com: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

1) Are you using multi-profile?
2) How are you closing Chrome (I assume you are using cmd-Q to exit Chrome,
you aren't just closing the windows)?
3) When you close Chrome, is the "Open at Login" checkbox still checked
after chrome exits?
4) When you exit, do you have the "Reopen windows when logging back in"
checkbox checked?

1 - No
2 - CMD-Q
3 - No
4 - No

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #116 on issue 140017 by atwi...@chromium.org: Chome keeps getting

added to Login Items for automatic start on login
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

Comment #115: When you restart and Chrome launches, does Chrome have
the "Open at Login" checkbox checked?

If you go to Settings > Users > Login Items, what other apps show up in the
Login Items list?

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #117 on issue 140017 by worc0...@googlemail.com: Chome keeps

getting added to Login Items for automatic start on login
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140017

I have the same.