# Are you having trouble with Chrome opening to the last page you opened? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 22, 2016, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-having-trouble-with-chrome-opening-to-the-last-page-you-opened/758032 "2016-06-22T10:14:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-having-trouble-with-chrome-opening-to-the-last-page-you-opened/758032/1 "2016-06-22T10:14:41Z")
Chrome (on my Android phone)updated a couple weeks ago. It’s started remembering the last page I opened. Giving me bizarre feelings of deja vu. Maybe I was reading a news article on CNN yesterday. I open Chrome a day latter and there’s that stale news article. WTH? The only work around is to close all the tabs. Then open a blank screen on Google search. Have to do this every time I close Chrome. I looked under setup. There’s nothing there to set a home page or stop this new behavior. I only use Chrome on my phone. It’s included with Android. I liked it until this recent update. They changed how tabs open too. They were separate windows. Now there’s a tab number on the upper right corner. Press that and you pick which tab to open. That feature is fine. Doesn’t bug me. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-having-trouble-with-chrome-opening-to-the-last-page-you-opened/758032/2 "2016-06-22T11:11:19Z")
FML, hey, I hear ya. Do you want to play a game? ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-having-trouble-with-chrome-opening-to-the-last-page-you-opened/758032/3 "2016-06-22T11:20:51Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Do you want to play a game? It has something to do with the alphabet and the order the letters go in or when you use them, most notably the letters “x”, “y”, and “z”, but I have yet to figure the pattern out. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-having-trouble-with-chrome-opening-to-the-last-page-you-opened/758032/4 "2016-06-22T11:22:15Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > It has something to do with the alphabet and the order the letters go in or when you use them, most notably the letters “x”, “y”, and “z”, but I have yet to figure the pattern out. I’m hoping iiiiiiiiiiandyiiiiiiiiiii will be along to esplain ETA: that was a comment/reply, not a game play. PPS: that too ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-having-trouble-with-chrome-opening-to-the-last-page-you-opened/758032/5 "2016-06-22T12:31:01Z")
Reported for forum change. MPSIMS was my suggestion. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-having-trouble-with-chrome-opening-to-the-last-page-you-opened/758032/6 "2016-06-22T13:27:48Z")
More importantly, what does your gf think of it? Esp when your phone chrome opens up with bondage pics… :eek: :smack: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-having-trouble-with-chrome-opening-to-the-last-page-you-opened/758032/7 "2016-06-22T22:12:08Z")
I clicked into this forum by mistake and didn’t notice before posting. My apologies. Its bumped up next to imho. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-having-trouble-with-chrome-opening-to-the-last-page-you-opened/758032/8 "2016-06-23T11:08:36Z")
So, who won? ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-having-trouble-with-chrome-opening-to-the-last-page-you-opened/758032/9 "2016-06-23T13:56:08Z")
Thread relocated from Thread Games to IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-having-trouble-with-chrome-opening-to-the-last-page-you-opened/758032/10 "2016-06-23T14:07:09Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > Thread relocated from Thread Games to IMHO. Hey. I had a lot riding on the game.:mad: ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-having-trouble-with-chrome-opening-to-the-last-page-you-opened/758032/11 "2016-06-23T16:50:44Z")
Glad to see the thread got moved. The Android version of Chrome has very few setup options. I can’t find something as basic as setting a home page. Or even organizing my bookmarks in different folders. ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-having-trouble-with-chrome-opening-to-the-last-page-you-opened/758032/12 "2016-06-23T17:51:33Z")
I only use Chrome on a regular computer but under Settings there’s a “Startup” section that has options for “Continue where I left off” vs. “Open a New Tab page,” etc. Nothing like this on Android? I actually love this feature of Chrome. If it ever freezes or crashes or Windows decides to do an update and reboot while I’m not looking, I can pick up right where I left off. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-having-trouble-with-chrome-opening-to-the-last-page-you-opened/758032/13 "2016-06-23T20:10:37Z")
The settings on Android Chrome are very limited. I don’t find a continue left off setting. I may need to try Firefox. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-having-trouble-with-chrome-opening-to-the-last-page-you-opened/758032/14 "2016-06-24T16:00:08Z")
These are reasons why I got rid of my phones. People who I actually want to talk to know how to get in touch with me. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-having-trouble-with-chrome-opening-to-the-last-page-you-opened/758032/15 "2016-06-24T19:05:53Z")
On phones, apps don’t close when you minimize them. They just sit and wait to be accessed again. Chrome doesn’t have to actively retrieve the last page you were on when you last accessed it. It’s just still sitting there from when you last minimized the app. You CAN close the app, and when you do re-open it your last tab(s) are still there. I assume that is because minimizing is the default action so closing/opening aims to duplicate that action. I don’t use Chrome (I have it though) on my iPhone, but I use Safari and that’s how Safari works too. Are you sure this is a new behavior? Safari on iPhone has worked like this for as long as I can remember (iOS 5 was my first I believe) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-having-trouble-with-chrome-opening-to-the-last-page-you-opened/758032/16 "2016-06-24T19:48:46Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > These are reasons why I got rid of my phones. People who I actually want to talk to know how to get in touch with me. You don’t get it Drunky. It’s a game. Hint: ace mentioned FireFox. Two f’s. You shoulda said something about the garden gate. See? ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-having-trouble-with-chrome-opening-to-the-last-page-you-opened/758032/17 "2016-06-24T19:58:00Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > On phones, apps don’t close when you minimize them. They just sit and wait to be accessed again. > > Chrome doesn’t have to actively retrieve the last page you were on when you last accessed it. It’s just still sitting there from when you last minimized the app. > > You CAN close the app, and when you do re-open it your last tab(s) are still there. I assume that is because minimizing is the default action so closing/opening aims to duplicate that action. > > I don’t use Chrome (I have it though) on my iPhone, but I use Safari and that’s how Safari works too. > > Are you sure this is a new behavior? Safari on iPhone has worked like this for as long as I can remember (iOS 5 was my first I believe) It’s a new behavior. My (Android) phone is doing it too. I hate it. I’d really, really just rather have Chrome open to whatever I set as the default page, which is, at least on my phone, Google. The whole tab thing, and opening to the last page opened, is not helpful and I’m going to switch to Firefox or something that behaves the way I want.