master_preferences not working on Windows 7 64bit

[jason]

The master_preferences is working on a Windows XP but I can't get it to work on Windows 7 64bit. It does not run any part of it. I placed it in C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application. Below are the contents of the file. What am I missing?

 

{
  "homepage" : "http://www.google.com",
  "homepage_is_newtabpage" : false,
  "browser" : {
    "show_home_button" : true,
    "check_default_browser" : false
  },
  "session" : {
    "restore_on_startup" : 4,
    "urls_to_restore_on_startup" : [
      "http://www.google.com"
    ]
  },
  "bookmark_bar" : {
    "show_on_all_tabs" : true
  },
  "distribution" : {
    "skip_first_run_ui" : true,
    "show_welcome_page" : false,
    "import_search_engine" : false,
    "import_history" : false,
    "import_home_page": true,
    "create_all_shortcuts" : true,  
    "do_not_launch_chrome" : true,
    "make_chrome_default" : false
  },
  "sync_promo" : {
    "user_skipped" : true
  },
  "first_run_tabs" : [
    "http://www.google.com",
    "new_tab_page"
  ]
}

[Joao da Silva]

Just tried this file and it works. I only replaced "new_tab_page" for the "first_run_tabs" with "chrome://newtab", the rest works as is.

Please notice that the master_preferences are only imported during the first run. Navigate to chrome://version and check the Profile dir; starting chrome with an empty profile dir should import the master_preferences again.

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[jason]

Thanks, now that I deleted the google directory in the user profile it is working. One last thing that is not working is  "import_home_page" : true,. It is not importing the home page for some reason.

On Tuesday, July 10, 2012 5:11:40 AM UTC-6, Joao da Silva wrote:

Just tried this file and it works. I only replaced "new_tab_page" for the "first_run_tabs" with "chrome://newtab", the rest works as is.

Please notice that the master_preferences are only imported during the first run. Navigate to chrome://version and check the Profile dir; starting chrome with an empty profile dir should import the master_preferences again.

[jason]

[Joao da Silva]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 4:51 PM, jason <jmoo...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks, now that I deleted the google directory in the user profile it is working. One last thing that is not working is  "import_home_page" : true,. It is not importing the home page for some reason.

Works for me. Please notice that the home page in IE is the startup URL, while on Chrome it's the page that the home button navigates to. The startup URLs on Chrome are set by the session.urls_to_restore_on_startup preference.