Chrome configuration

[walt]

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>

.

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

[pete_c]

Could you possibly use a Chrome master_preferences file instead?

https://www.chromium.org/administrators/configuring-other-preferences

[walt]

are the two any different? Is a master_preference a configuration profile or something else?

how are others setting just the homepage without affecting additional tabs? or better yet on a new Chrome launch, how are others setting the default page (and/or without affecting other tabs)

It seems google's logic is that a new window is a "Window + new tab" so without the NewTabPageLocation set to true it just goes to a default page, which is fine for 'other' tabs but first launch should goto Homepage if the the Homepage location is set...

[pdwyer]

I got this to open our school home page via this plist. Is there a way to open two tabs when chrome is started? I tried below but no luck...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict> <key>DefaultBrowserSettingEnabled</key> <false/> <key>HomepageIsNewTabPage</key> <false/> <key>HomepageLocation</key> <string>https://www.emknights.org</string>
<key>HomepageIsNewTabPage</key> <false/> <key>HomepageLocation</key> <string>https://launchpad.classlink.com/emknighs</string> <key>RestoreOnStartupURLs</key> <array> <string>http://emknights.org</string> </array> <key>RestoreOnStartup</key> <integer>4</integer> <key>ShowHomeButton</key> <true/> <key>IncognitoModeAvailability</key> <integer>1</integer>
</dict>
</plist>