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Disabling restore popup that comes when chrome process is killed

MayankGoyal2 — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 21:48:49 GMT

Hi, Sometimes when chrome is closed via killing process chrome.exe from task manager, next time when we open chrome it gives a popup on right hand side, restore. I know one way to disable this pop up is to edit preference file with settings "exit_type": "none". However this settings is overwritten as soon as we launch chrome again, i dont want to change this file to read only as that has other issues with extensions as chrome logs various things to this file and needs write permission.

Is there a setting on UI like setting - "Always ask download location for saving file". Similarly a UI option to disable this restore pop up, or is there a flag we can pass at time of launching chrome that will disable this popup?

Re: Disabling restore popup that comes when chrome process is killed

SusheelMaurya — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 14:50:27 GMT

Hi Mayank,

As of now, I can see two options to disable or close the restore popup:

Option 1-

Navigate to the following path: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
Search Preferences file
Open file with notepad
Search the value "exit_type":"Crashed" and change it to "exit_type": "none"
Search "exited_cleanly" and it should be "exited_cleanly":true
Save & Close the preferences file
Right-click on the file and make it read-only else chrome will update this file again with initial values.

Option 2-

Close the popup with Blue Prism Process

Spy the restore popup with UI or region mode
Check the popup after launching the chrome using conditional wait stage
if restore popup exists, click on close (X)

Re: Disabling restore popup that comes when chrome process is killed

david.l.morris — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 18:14:04 GMT

It looks like that restore popup doesn't happen in Incognito mode. I tested this a few times on my machine. I would imagine this is just a byproduct of that incognito is based on the concept of not maintaining browsing session/history information. I don't know if that works for you, but there are a couple things to do:

Enable incognito mode in the Blue Prism Browser Extension. This has to be done on every runtime resource.

In Application Modeller, add --incognito to the startup parameters

Re: Disabling restore popup that comes when chrome process is killed

Grace-Lanser — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 11:25:02 GMT

There is a more recent thread on this topic here.