I solved the problem I talked about at [Link: remotecentral.com]. There's a new one.

I've got a desktop shortcut that opens gmail, google calendar, google contacts, and google maps. The problem I had before was with google contacts, though I thought it was with google mail. Anyway...

So now things are opening well. The problem is, it used to work this way:
1. Double click on icon, all four sites open.
2. Close that window, all four sites close.
3. Double click on icon again, all four sites open.
4. Et Cetera.

Now, however, the first two steps are the same. It looks like it did before when you go to close all four sites. But Step 3 has become:

3a. Double click on the icon again, all the tabs that you had previously opened open up again, along with the four that are called for in the shortcut.

When you close those tabs, it's as though they don't totally close, but lurk waiting to be called upon. But I made no changes in the process of opening them. It you reboot the computer, you only get four.

So it looks like there's some kind of closing of tabs that is complete with a reboot but isn't complete without the reboot. I've just tested this and I quit when there were twenty tabs open.

Does anybody know what to do so that the tabs that I close don't seem to hang around waiting to magically reappear?

Thanks.

Accept the fact that everything works like shlt these days. Well ok. Most things. When they work it is great. But too many glitches. Update firm(let’s hope this fixes the fix)ware.

Navigation to Google contacts has changed in the recent update so old bookmarks to Google contacts don't work. Delete that URL in your shortcut, go to Contacts (via the 9 square menu top right of Google home page) and bookmark the new URL for Google contacts.
Not sure about the rest of your issue, but that step is required and with luck it may fix the whole thing. It took me a while to find my Contacts too after the update...

I'm assuming you mean you have a desktop shortcut that opens your browser and you had that browser default to navigate to those pages as your collection of default home pages?


It would benefit you to provide complete information Ernie. Such as what browser you are using? PC or Mac? This is a "feature" of Firefox and an option in Chrome. It's just saving your tabs. A device shut off removes those tabs from memory and restores only your default tabs. Need to know browser to go further. I'll spare you your style rant about the importance of details.

I have edited this several times and this is as good as it gets.


I use Chrome on a PC with Windows 7. This just started happening, but it did so at the same time (it seems) that google changed the URL for contacts.

I can't answer your question directly since I'm not sure that those exact things are what's happening. For instance, I don't know how to make my "browser default to navigate to those pages...." In fact, I could be doing exactly that. You decide. Here's what I've got:

On my desktop there's a Chrome icon on the desktop. Clicking on the icon opens Chrome and then opens gmail, calendar, contacts, maps, and keep. I don't remember how I found out about this multiple site opening ability, but it sure is cool!


In the "Target" window under Properties of this icon I have the following. Each URL is the URL of the particular site I wanted to go to. I have changed the dot before exe and com to a space and a comma so this editing window will not truncate the URL. I've added other spaces in an attempt to just get black print, but still some things turn red. I believe all the characters are there; this is a bitch to proofread.

The -new-window thing was not needed a year or so ago and suddenly became needed. I don't remember what went wrong without it.

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome, exe" -new-window https:/mail. google, com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox https://www. google, com/calendar/render?pli=1 https://www. google, com/contacts/#contacts http://maps. google, com https://keep. google, com/u/0/

For what it's worth, here are the similarly arranged commands from my laptop, which has no such problem. It's also a PC running Windows 7. I haven't got around to putting keep on it yet.

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome, exe" -new-window https://mail.google, com/mail/u/0/#inbox https://www.google, com/calendar/render?pli=1 https://mail.google, com/mail/u/0/#contacts http://maps.google, com

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Why do this via the shortcut instead of using the built-in Chrome feature?

navigate to

chrome://settings/

and go to the bottom of the page, there's an 'On startup' section where you can add the URL's directly.

Because
I don't always want to open those

I have two of these things on each computer

I for sure don't always want to open both