When I start up iMac, Chrome automatically opens. How do I make it stop?

[1] Right click the Google Chrome icon on your dock.

Select "Options",

Uncheck "Open at Login"

[2] Click on the "System Preferences" icon in your dock.

Select "Users & Groups"

Click the lock to make changes

Click on your user account

Select "Login Items"

Make sure Google Chrome is NOT checked

That'll do it.

The solution for me was to right-click (or control-left-click) the Chrome icon in the dock, select "Options", and make sure "Open at Login" is deselected. I'm running OS X Mavericks.

System Preferences -> Users & Groups -> Clik on (Your Login ID: left column) -> Click on (Login Items: right column) -> Select "Google Chrome" if exists -> Click on "-" button. Simply unchecking "hide button" does not work. Press "-" button to remove the item.

I didn't realize Chrome was in my Startup menu. It was really annoying it was opening up all the time after a restart. I have El Capitan. After I went to System Preferences>Users & Groups>User>Login Items (Tab) you can minus/delete all the programs you don't need to start up. I leave iTunesHelper and Dropbox open. All the others are not really important unless you have a specific program that needs to start up or be in the background. Chrome does not need to start up for me. I just didn't think it was there...those wily Google people.

Hello, I had the same problem with google chrome and fixed it by right clicking on the icon in the dock, then options, then untick start at login.

Hope this helps,

Sarah.

This happened to me as well, and it was so annoying. Go to Apple icon - System Preferences - Users and Groups - and make sure you UNCHECK Google Chrome. 🙂

Thank you! Before I shut down yesterday, I actually rightclicked the dock icon and set it to open at login. Then I deselected it again. I have never set anything to open at login there before, but today when I started up, Chrome did not open automatically (for the first time in many weeks). But just to be safe, I may lose the potential offender you have listed. Thanks so much for your help, it was driving me crazy!

In Sys Prefs>Acconts>Login Items, what all is listed?

I hope this still runs in 10.6...

What all 3rd party extentions are you running?

EtreCheck is a simple little app to display the important details of your system configuration and allow you to copy that information to the Clipboard. It is meant to be used with Apple Support Communities to help people help you with your Mac.

http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

Very easy solution.

- On your dock, right-click the Google Chrome icon.

- Under "options" make sure that "Open at login" is unchecked

This (above) should also be performed in addition to un-checking the start-up items under System Preferences>Users>...etc...

Hope this helps!

Hi, I don't what the name is of my current operating system, but it is version OSX version 10.9.5. And the suggestion to go to 'accounts' is incorrect. You have to go 'users and groups' and go to login items. There you can uncheck google chrome on the list of items that open automatically on log in.

I found it very irritating, it would consume all resources by automatically starting chrome. So this should turn it off until you want it. Cheers

This is how it's done on Snow Leopard:

Under the apple...

System preferences

Accounts

Login items

Check the 'chrome' box, yes, CHECK it, THEN go to the bottom of that window and click the 'minus' sign that's right next to the 'plus' sign. The chrome item will disappear. Re-start your computer. Gone :-)

I tried the solution where you right click the icon and deselect the option "Open at Startup". I tried going into System Preferences>Users and Groups>LogIn Items and unchecking Google

Hi Linda, instead of unchecking it, highlight it & click on the tiny minus icon below. 🙂

Try this.

From your dock right-click on the Google Chrome link.

Pick Options.

'Uncheck' Open at Login.

I could not locate the 'fix' in system preferences, BUT, when I clicked on the dock icon, found options. Open on startup was checked as an option so I deselected it and that solved the problem.

Select "Users & Groups"

Click the lock to make changes

Click on your user account

Select "Login Items"

Make sure Google Chrome is NOT checked

I'm pretty sure that just stops it from showing in the Dock, to stop it from launching you need to highlight Chrome & click the tiny minus icon to remove it. 🙂

Check Activity Monitor All Processes to see if it's running by just unchecking it.