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Mac - restore windows to spaces on launch
For folks who want Chrome to always restore windows to their original spaces, you can set that by running this command in a terminal window (for Canary, use `com.google.Chrome.canary`):
defaults write com.google.Chrome NSWindowRestoresWorkspaceAtLaunch -bool YES
To go back to the default behavior, run:
defaults delete com.google.Chrome NSWindowRestoresWorkspaceAtLaunch
This should work for any Mac app, not just Chrome.
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f-steff commented Jan 3, 2026

Thank you for testing this.
To be honest, I haven't used it recently, but it did work on macOS Mojave, and High Sierra when I found out, and it seems the problem have mostly gone away since then.
At the time I reported the error on the Chromium bugtracker, and a lot of people looked at it. Multiple other tickets were made, but I unsubscribed from most of them. The last I know of is this: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40651977
Perhaps it's time to create a new ticket?

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