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No matter that

  • in SettingsBasicsOn startup, I have selected Open the home page
  • Home page is set to my internal address

Chrome still opens with two tabs: my Home page and a Sign in tab (in foreground!).

How do I disable this Sign in thing? I do not ever want to use it.

The version I'm using is Chrome 18.0.1025.168. (For purposes of testing, I'm intentionally using older version.)

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    On the Sign In page (under the form with credentials) there is a link to skip it. Once pressed, the Sign In page does not show up again on next start-ups.
    – Stan
    Oct 23, 2014 at 13:35

7 Answers 7

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Open the "Preferences" file from your profile* and edit the "sync_promo" section. This might look something like:

(...)    
   "sync_promo": {
      "startup_count": 6,
      "view_count": 4
   },
(...)

In this section, add "user_skipped": true (don't forget the comma at the end of each line that is not the last in the section), like:

(...)    
   "sync_promo": {
      "user_skipped": true,
      "startup_count": 6,
      "view_count": 4
   },
(...)

Find the information in this YouTube video. So, thanks to Vlăduţ Frăţiman.

  • profile path: open chrome://version/ or C:\Users\user-name\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Preferences in Windows 7. You can use Notepad to edit it.
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    Make sure Chrome is closed before you edit the file. Otherwise your changes will be overwritten when Chrome closes.
    – Ian Dunn
    Jan 12, 2013 at 20:36
  • The sync_promo line should look like this: "sync_promo": { "startup_count": 1, "user_skipped": true
    – user239032
    Jul 18, 2013 at 16:18
  • Some (deleted) answers suggest one might also need the same line in a "sync" section. Like "sync": { "user_skipped": true, "suppress_start": true }, "sync_promo": { "startup_count": 3, "user_skipped": true } But I haven't tested that.
    – Arjan
    Jul 20, 2013 at 12:55
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in SettingsBasicsOn startup, choose Open the following pages and put this link

chrome://newtab
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    @krispy - But only works if you want static home pages. For me I want it to be where I left off without the annoying additional page. Oct 16, 2016 at 15:09
  • @MartinSmith - very good point
    – krispy
    Oct 19, 2016 at 15:07
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This has been bugging me for a while and it appears Google is encouraging people to sign in.

I needed to make another tweak for anyone who has had this problem recently.

Script before:

"http://www.google.co.uk/" ]
   },
   "sync": {
      "suppress_start": true
   },
   "sync_promo": {
      "startup_count": 3,
      "user_skipped": true
   },

Script after fix:

"http://www.google.co.uk/" ]
   },
   "sync": {
      "user_skipped": true
      "suppress_start": true
   },
   "sync_promo": {
      "startup_count": 3,
      "user_skipped": true
   },

Works for me.

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    Please don't write anything chatty like "Google wants to have our data for their big plan". Just answer the question. Please read help center before answering or asking. Thanks. Jul 20, 2013 at 11:52
  • (Hmmm, @user99572isfine, as for your suggested edit: I wanted to hit "improve" to also get some code formatting in there, but clicked "approve" instead. I guess you cannot edit either at this point?)
    – Arjan
    Jul 20, 2013 at 12:39
  • Actually, this seems to be a comment to prometoy's answer. When reading the suggested help, you'll see you need just a bit of reputation to be able to comment next time.
    – Arjan
    Jul 20, 2013 at 12:42
  • More like browbeating people into submission by interrupting their workflow every ~ 30 mins. The best solution is to switch browsers as they keep changing the setting name to push new ways to get this tab in your workflow again.
    – G_V
    Jun 18, 2018 at 12:26
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Sometimes sign in page appears at every startup because you installed an extension that needs to communicate with your google account.

for example "Google Keep" ask you to sign in because it saves favorite links in your google account.

It is better to first check installed extension. chrome://extensions

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Just click on the "No, thanks" link at the bottom of the sign in page.

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  • This worked for me. I don't know why you should open any file and skript around within... thanks
    – Neifen
    Sep 18, 2015 at 13:52
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    I don't see any such option i.stack.imgur.com/fgFje.png Oct 16, 2016 at 15:10
  • Google removed this option and instead chose to make the browser useless by having it interrupt your workflow every few minutes.
    – G_V
    Apr 8, 2017 at 9:23
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Run chromium-browser --bwsi to "browse without sign-in" and disable it.

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  • OP is running chrome. Does this also work with vanilla chrome?
    – Jeremy W
    Jun 23, 2012 at 12:02
  • "...and disable it."? The Q is that I don't know how to disable it. Aug 16, 2012 at 13:54
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Finally!!

Privacy and security >Sync and Google Services> turn off “Allow Chrome sign-in”

This stops the constant new tab prompt to sign in every time you open chrome, I

think this happens when we use chrome apps like drive or keep etc.

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