I can confirm this is happening to me as well. It just started a few days ago after an update. When I log in, Chromium starts and opens two blank tabs w/o my permission.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1175601 Title: Two Chromium background instances and a browser window open on boot without my permission Status in “chromium-browser” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: When I log into my user session (type in my password on the login prompt after boot), Chromium auto-starts, and two instances of its background process automatically open: per the attached image, two Chromium icons appear in the top bar. Also, an instance of the browser appears in the middle of the screen. When this happens, I get an inconsistent browsing experince in Chromium, where it is randomly unable to connect to web sites or download components referenced by web pages (e.g., CSS files, JS files, etc.). I can fix by closing the browser and also both the background sessions, then restarting Chromium. I have never configured Chromium to start up when I log into my session. This has happened without my explicit permission or consent. If I go to Session and Startup's Application Autostart tab, Chromium appears in the list and is checked. I did not configure this. Expected behavior: No part of Chromium opens at all, not even a background process, until I launch the browser for the first time. I am using a copy of Xubuntu 13.04 that was upgraded from Xubuntu 12.10. This problem was happening for several weeks back with Xubuntu 12.10, too. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: chromium-browser 25.0.1364.160-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.29-generic 3.8.8 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8 Architecture: i386 Date: Thu May 2 08:18:13 2013 Desktop-Session: DESKTOP_SESSION = xubuntu XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = /etc/xdg/xdg-xubuntu:/etc/xdg:/etc/xdg XDG_DATA_DIRS = /usr/share/xubuntu:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/:/usr/share EcryptfsInUse: Yes Env: MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-02 (119 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release i386 (20121017.1) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: chromium-browser UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-30 (1 days ago) chromium-default: CHROMIUM_FLAGS="" gconf-keys: /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec = b'firefox\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command = b'sensible-browser %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command = b'sensible-browser %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager = b''/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager = b''/desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme = b'elementary-xfce-dark\n'/desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme = b'Greybird\n' To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1175601/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
