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[Thaddäus Tintenfisch <thad.fisch@xxxxxxxxx>]

Clearing the session cache resolved the core issue. So, should we close
this report, mark it as duplicate or reassign it to chromium-browser
which keeps updating the launcher in the autostart section?

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Title:
  Two Chromium background instances and a browser window open on boot
  without my permission

Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in xfce4-session package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  When I log into my user session (type in my password on the login
  prompt after boot), Chromium auto-starts, and two instances of its
  background process automatically open: per the attached image, two
  Chromium icons appear in the top bar. Also, an instance of the browser
  appears in the middle of the screen.

  When this happens, I get an inconsistent browsing experince in
  Chromium, where it is randomly unable to connect to web sites or
  download components referenced by web pages (e.g., CSS files, JS
  files, etc.).

  I can fix by closing the browser and also both the background
  sessions, then restarting Chromium.

  I have never configured Chromium to start up when I log into my
  session. This has happened without my explicit permission or consent.

  If I go to Session and Startup's Application Autostart tab, Chromium
  appears in the list and is checked. I did not configure this.

  Expected behavior: No part of Chromium opens at all, not even a
  background process, until I launch the browser for the first time.

  I am using a copy of Xubuntu 13.04 that was upgraded from Xubuntu
  12.10. This problem was happening for several weeks back with Xubuntu
  12.10, too.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: chromium-browser 25.0.1364.160-0ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.29-generic 3.8.8
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu May  2 08:18:13 2013
  Desktop-Session:
   DESKTOP_SESSION = xubuntu
   XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = /etc/xdg/xdg-xubuntu:/etc/xdg:/etc/xdg
   XDG_DATA_DIRS = /usr/share/xubuntu:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/:/usr/share
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  Env:
   MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None
   LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-02 (119 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release i386 (20121017.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: chromium-browser
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-30 (1 days ago)
  chromium-default: CHROMIUM_FLAGS=""
  gconf-keys: /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec = b'firefox\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command = b'sensible-browser %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command = b'sensible-browser %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager = b''/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager = b''/desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme = b'elementary-xfce-dark\n'/desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme = b'Greybird\n'

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