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Stop Auto-Playing YouTube Videos When Restoring Google Chrome Session Tabs Only

I regularly have a large number of tabs open, and often several of these tabs are YouTube videos which have been paused. For the sake of an example, let's say I have 12 tabs with paused YouTube videos ...
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Where does Microsoft Edge store InPrivate sessions?

I understand this is a tricky question. I was visiting several important sites on a borrowed device (Windows 11 Pro, Edge up to date), using Microsoft Edge in InPrivate mode (like Chrome's Incognito ...
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Where does Google Chrome save the startup websites, continue where you left off?

I had to install a fresh Windows 10 on a new SSD. The SSD on which the previous Windows 10 is installed is OK, all files can be accessed from D:\. About the favorites, I copied the files located in D:\...
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Can I restore a lost Chrome session? [duplicate]

My chrome crashed on me and the restore previous session button didn't work. Is there a way to restore previous session? I had 4 windows with different tabs opened through days and they were saved ...
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How to restore chrome tabs after a reboot if you accidentally closed the restore popup?

I had dozen of important tabs I carried for couple days, though I did open and close several other tabs, and then i hat to reboot my computer because it was stuck. As usual when i launched chrome, ...
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Restoring Chrome Session from index.dat files

I had 50 tabs open in Chrome, that I lost due to unfortunate reasons, from 4th July, 2020. Since then, I have stopped using Chrome, trying not to overwrite the Last Tabs files, but Chrome has been ...
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Trying to restore previous session in Google Chrome, without Last Tabs/Last Session files

So I had a massive amount of tabs/windows open in Google Chrome, went away for a bit, and Google Chrome had closed. I reopened Google Chrome, which gave me no option to restore the session despite ...
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Chrome constantly claims that it didn't shut down correctly [duplicate]

For past month or so, from time to time (every 2-3 days) when starting up Google Chrome I see constant claims that it didn't shut down correctly. This seems to be a false claim, because: I always ...
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Session expiring after closing Chrome in Windows

Since last two/three weeks after closing Google Chrome in Windows, I'm getting logged out of all the websites I have logged in. Every time the session is getting closed for all websites when I reopen ...
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killall chromium-browser: no process found

I had been able to do killall chromium-browser to stop all chromium browser sessions, but not anymore: $ killall chromium-browser chromium-browser: no process found That's been a while since my ...
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Lost all Chrome tabs and history after hibernate in Windows 10

I use multiple profiles in Chrome. The main one, for work, had loads of tabs open that I so desperately need. I recall hibernating Windows 10 a couple days ago. Just booted Windows and to my ...
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Chrome writes too much to SSD

As the session recovery feature in Chrome and Firefox does a lot of disk writing which isn't good for an SSD, Firefox has a solution, but I'm not aware of one for Chrome. There are workarounds that ...
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How can I undo what CCleaner did?

I experienced a little problem when using CCleaner. Before I started, I had two Chrome windows opened with multiple tabs each. Then I ran CCleaner and it asked me to close Chrome in order to delete ...
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Copy chrome session from one computer to the other

I have just installed chrome on a new computer. I have copied the AppData\Local\Google\ folder from the old machine to the new. Things like bookmarks and history restore, however my previous session ...
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How to restore correct session tabs when Google Chrome crashes [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Chrome crashed without providing “Restore” button My Chrome instance crashed, and when it restarted, it had lost all of my tabs, with no option to restore my tabs. ...
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