When restarting Chrome, windows from prior session are restored but highlighted

When I open Google Chrome, it restores my previous session, including multiple windows and tabs. This is good. Most the windows are highlighted in the Windows task bar until I click on them. What does this highlighting indicate, and how can I avoid it?

IME, the highlighting is Windows saying “here are the newest windows that have been opened, in case you wanted look at them immediately and somehow can’t find them.”

And the only ways I know of to avoid this behavior involves not running Windows any longer.

I believe the highlighting is how Windows indicates that a window has changed recently. I suspect this is because the currenrlybopen tabs in that window has loaded the webpage, which is a change.

I don’t see this when I use Chrome, but I also use an extension keeps any tabs from completely loading. They only actually load the content when I open that tab. And the extension also has an option to open a blank tab in each window on startup, which prevents any tab from loading the page. It makes Chrome open up a whole lot faster, too.

Thanks, I figured it was Chrome itself.

Interesting, I’ll try it!