Startup pages duplicating after restart of browser

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Description of the issue: Startup pages duplicating after restart of browser
How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. Close browser with x on far right.
  2. Open browser again
  3. Set startup pages will now be duplicated and with each closure of browser another set of startup pages will be added each time

Expected result: Closing and reopening browser should reset set of startup pages, not add another set on top of the ones it had open already

Brave Version( check About Brave): 1.80.120

Additional Information: If you close each tab individually, eventually causing browser to totally close and then open it again, it will then open up with the correct number of startup pages

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@a2j32 if you go to brave://settings/getStarted do you have it set to Continue where you left off?

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No, I have it set to open a specific page or set of pages.

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Wondering if you have any extensions installed at this time that might be causing this? Testing on my end, I set my browser on Windows to launch and open brave.com and community.brave.com. I close the browser, relaunch and it opens to only those two pages.

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Yes, I’m using several extensions. However, I just disabled all of them to test and it still does the same issue.

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@a2j32 can you please try creating a new browser profile (Menu --> More tools --> Add profile) and ensure the setup is similar and see if you get the same behavior in the fresh profile?

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I just created the second profile and set up the same start-up pages and the issue isn’t happening in the second profile.

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So something in your main profile is causing this issue. As I mentioned before, extensions can often cause issues even if they are disabled. Can you tell me which ones you have installed at this time?

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That sure is a lot. Hard to tell but the ones that stand out to me with respect to this issue might be the Chromebook recovery utility Chrome Remote desktop and any Tampermonkey scripts you may have running at this time.

If you change your On Startup setting in brave://settings/getStarted to Continue where you left off and leave some tabs open, then close/relaunch the browser, are those tabs duplicated as well? Or does it just relaunch and appear exactly the same as when you close it?

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Yes to the latter.

I also just checked that when I have it set to specific page(s), it also duplicates any other pages that were open as well, not just the specific set ones.

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Also, this issue is not happening on my PC that is the same setup because it is synced, only happening with this laptop.

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Right so it is something specific to that profile on that laptop. Are all of the extensions the same on both machines?

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They are both synced, so yes.

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Can you try toggling off the “Sync opened tabs” data type in Settings --> Sync and see if this makes any difference?

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I didn’t get a chance to try your last idea, but it is back to working again normally, I guess there must have been an update to it or something. Thanks for your help.