I have fine-tuned our Chrome configuration profile, but there is some confusion (or perhaps a bit convoluted on Google's side) when setting the HomePage to our internal corp landing site. In Chrome's preferences, there is a setting to set HomepageLocation but this alone does not open the corp.org website on first run or a new Chrome window. This appears only to be functional if you have the Home button enabled or combine it with a setting of NewTabPageLocation and/or HomepageIsNewTabPage is set to true, mainly because a new window has a new tab (from Google's perspective)...?

Please correct me if I am mistaken in this?

My goal is to have Chrome open to our corp.org landing page, but not open the default corp.org page when a new tab is open.

My current config profile setting (which does open our corp.org page on a new Chrome launch/window, but also on any new tabs):

<key>HomepageIsNewTabPage</key> <array> <string>true</string> </array> <key>HomepageLocation</key> <string>https://internal.corp.org</string> <key>NewTabPageLocation</key> <string>https://internal.corp.org</string>

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Would this be the more ideal approach for setting just the Homepage?

<key>HomepageIsNewTabPage</key> <false/> <key>HomepageLocation</key> <string>https://internal.corp.org</string> <key>RestoreOnStartupURLs</key> <array> <string>https://internal.corp.org</string> </array> <key>RestoreOnStartup</key> <integer>4</integer> </dict>

Only problem with this configuration users lose a bit more control on how they start up Chrome (they close out of a a few tabs but needed to restore on start up...the only possible option is to go to History > Tabs > Restore

Unless I'm missing something?

thank you