Chrome adding itself to login items.

In my case, I was able to trace this behavior to the "Feedly" (RSS Reader) extension.

It's possible other extensions are causing the same behavior for other users.

1. Disable all extensions
2. Remove Chrome from Login Items
3. Reenable extensions one at a time.
4. In my case, Chrome added itself to Login Items as soon as I reenabled the Feedly extension, but the my next step in diagnosing this would be quitting and reopening Chrome after reenabling each extension.

I had the same problem and found a fix that worked for me.

1. I opened Chrome extensions and turned ALL of them off, then closed Chrome.
2. I removed Chrome from the dock.
3. I reopened Chrome (alas, did not add to startup items!)
4. I opened extensions, then turned on ONE extension, then closed and reopened Chrome.
5. I did this one-by-one for each extension until one of them "added Chrome to login items" (thus showing me which one caused the issue, so turned that one back off, and left it off for good).
6. Then finally, I re-added Chrome to my dock and all is well.

That's what worked for me. Hope it helps someone else!

Faced the same issue. In my case, culprit was "SessionBox" extension which is even a "Featured" item in Chrome Web Store.

Faced the same issue while using Brave Browser. I have posted on the Brave community forum as well.

How can an extension have no-questions-asked privilege of adding something to the "Login Items" in macOS?!

Also, I had the issue on macOS Monterey as well. So I don't think this is a Ventura problem. But, that said, I think Ventura introduced a feature which shows an alert/notification when something gets added to Login Items list. I have not seen such a notification on Monterey or earlier versions.

The following are the extensions that people seem to have identified as triggering this issue:

• SessionBox
• Feedly
• VidIQ

Maybe the issue is some common library or component that all the above extensions are using.

So, the bigger question: how can a browser extension access Login Items on macOS?

Hello All,

I had the same issue with Chrome and apple support unable to provide a solution. they didn't even know where to look for the issue. After multiple investigations and cracking the Ventura/Chrome codes, I think I found the solution... It worked for me 100%.. I restarted the machine and launched Chrome

1. If you have Chrome app added to the dock, remove it.
2. Check all your extensions on the chrome. there might be some extensions that you have provided access for startup.. Remove all extensions..
3. Close Chrome and clean-up your login startups one last time..
4. Restart Chrome and let me know if it works...

Thanks and happy holidays.

That one finally did the trick; thank you! It worked once I deleted the extensions. Thank you so much; this has been driving me nuts:)

Happy New Year

This is what I did:

Go to Google browser -> Settings -> Extensions -> Google Hangouts (disable this extension)

Try restarting mac. Mine disappeared.

It's probably an extension that you are using that is doing this. I removed all extensions in chrome and it does not do it anymore.

I have been facing this issue on macOS Monterey as well. So I don't think this is a Ventura problem. But, that said, I think Ventura introduced a feature which shows an alert/notification when something gets added to Login Items list. I have not seen such a notification on Monterey or earlier versions.

The following are the extensions that people seem to have identified as triggering this issue:

• SessionBox
• Feedly
• VidIQ

Yes. The Problem is with the chrome extension the chrome don't open's itself but the there's a chrome extension which was causing the problem of auto login on startup. There were plenty of extensions added to my chrome browser, I removed many of them and for me the problem has been solved.

Problem Solved.

Thank you! Deleting Feedly solved this for mw as well. Too bad -- I'll notify the Feedly developers because I like that extension but this behavior is annoying.

updated to Ventura 13.1 "don't know it's necessary" after that i started chrome disabled autostart in settings on my computer and also right click on chrome app on dock to disable open on login, then i went to chrome adds in settings to disable all adds then restarted chrome and activated all adds again. that fix workt for my Mac.

Mylorac - I had been experiencing this exact same issue after upgrading to Ventura as well. I tried removing Google Chrome from the Login Items list with no success. I have tried removing (almost) all the extensions in the Chrome settings and still nothing. I tried removing Chrome from the Dock and nothing, it still "self adds" itself to the login list. I was finally able to get this to stop by making Safari the Default Internet Browser

I had original turned off the google updater extension but it didn't work. So I then went into my "CleanMyMac" app and turned the extension off there first and then back to the login extension under settings and turned it off there as well. Then with Chrome open i deleted Chrome from the start up menu. Additionally I removed Chrome as my default web browser and removed Chrome from my dock menu, restarted my mac and it was good to go. To this day it hasn't re-added itself back; fingers crossed

Delete Chrome and use Safari. No other solution I tried worked.