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

I have Safari, Chrome and Firefox as browsers. They are all in my dock. Safari is my default browser.

After I've shut down the computer, when I start up again, Chrome is the only browser that opens automatically at start up. I don't want any of them to do that. I've looked through preferences and can't find anything. I've looked in my Library:StartUpItems folder, but there seems to be nothing there.

How do I make Chrome stop starting?

Posted on Nov 20, 2013 11:53 AM

79 replies

rabidart

Level 1

25 points

Aug 20, 2016 11:22 AM in response to a brody

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.

Klaus1

Level 9

52,873 points

Aug 20, 2016 12:53 PM in response to rabidart

Why are you posting to an old thread in the Leopard forum?

rabidart

Level 1

25 points

Aug 20, 2016 12:58 PM in response to Klaus1

I found the answer to my question here. I searched for the answer to my question and this was the one that came out first. Apparently some software issues/annoyances do happen across different OS's. Who would have thought? 😉 Good thing this thread still exists.

Sep 13, 2016 11:38 AM in response to gglas

No such thing as OPTIONS there. Do you know where this is hidden in 2016? Thanks in advance.

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