Disabling “Sign In ” tab on startup

Question

No matter that

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.)

slhck · Answer 1 · 2013-01-16 14:13:43Z

Open the "Preferences" file from your profile* and edit the "sync_promo" section.

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

And add "user_skipped": true (don't forget the comma at the end of the line)

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.

Make sure Chrome is closed before you edit the file. Otherwise your changes will be overwritten when Chrome closes.

Noobie · Answer 2 · 2012-08-30 11:24:57Z

up vote 2 down vote

in Settings → Basics → On startup, choose Open the following pages and put this link

chrome://newtab

answered Aug 30 '12 at 11:24

Noobie
212

Simple but effective. Thanks – skan Mar 9 at 19:54

Simon · Answer 3 · 2012-06-23 08:27:18Z

up vote 0 down vote

Run chromium-browser --bwsi to "browse without sign-in" and disable it.

answered Jun 23 '12 at 8:27

Simon
1

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

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