[WayBack] Where is the Chrome settings file? – Super User, on various platforms as a folder named Default under:
In Windows:
%LocalAppData%\Google\Chrome\User Data\
In OS X:~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/
In Linux:~/.config/google-chrome/
The easiest way to find out the actual location is by browsing to chrome://version/ as per [WayBack] google chrome – Disabling “Sign In ” tab on startup – Super User. There the entry Profile Path will show the actual profile location.
Inside that path is a JSON file called preferences which you can edit if Chrome is closed (since Chrome will overwrite it regularly when active).
A few entries I saw are interesting:
- Restoring the session on startup:
"session": { "restore_on_startup": 1 }, - While running
"exit_type": "Crashed", "exited_cleanly": true, - After closing
"exit_type": "Normal", "exited_cleanly": true,
A trick to restore the session after you quite Chrome is to replace "exited_cleanly":true with "exited_cleanly":false in the Preferences file.
–jeroen
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