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Stop Chrome showing all tabs ever opened?

tim091

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Jul 13, 2016
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Whe I launch Chrome it shows a number in a square box on the toolbar. Touching this shows every web page I have ever opened!!

It doesn't clear after a session, which I would expect it to do.

Yes, I can go into settings and clear browsing history but can I stop it from keeping these pages cached in the first place? Or at least have it clear after a session.

It seems utterly pointless to hold a cached page that I once visited 6 months ago!
 
Thanks Dannydet. Not sure that is the same problem though. I am not talking about the Android Recent Apps display (this shows just the current Chrome page).

I mean within Chrome, next to the address box is a number in a square box. Tapping that shows all the tabs you have opened since you last manually cleared that list.
 
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But like, running forever?! I power my phone off every night so when I power it back up and launch Chrome (or maybe before I launch Chrome) it is pulling in all those pages again? Or maybe pulling a cached version from memory?

Whatever, it confirms my ever growing feeling that Android is a pile of poo with far too much "behind the scenes" stuff going on that the user has no control over.

Thanks for your input though mate, appreciated.
 
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Hi,
Go to settings>storage>apps>chrome
Uninstall updates.
Open chrome settings.
Scroll down to
Merge tabs and apps.
Enable the option.
Now open google play store menu my apps and games.
Update chrome.

Settings - Storage & USB (no storage option) - Device Storage - apps - Chrome just gives me options to Clear Data and Clear Cache.

Settings - General - Phone Management - Apps - Chrome just gives me options to Force Stop or Disable.
 
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Whe I launch Chrome it shows a number in a square box on the toolbar. Touching this shows every web page I have ever opened!!

It doesn't clear after a session, which I would expect it to do.

Yes, I can go into settings and clear browsing history but can I stop it from keeping these pages cached in the first place? Or at least have it clear after a session.

It seems utterly pointless to hold a cached page that I once visited 6 months ago!
Just like on the desktop, Chrome keeps a page loaded in a tab until you close that tab. On mobile, though, apps like Chrome don't fully close - when you leave them, they store their current state so that you can pick up where you left off the next time you open it. (It operates a bit like the "On Startup: Continue where you left off" setting in desktop Chrome.)

I don't think there's really a way to defeat that as it is exactly how the browser is designed to function. You can, however, relatively painlessly close out all tabs when you are finished with a browsing session. Do this by pressing the tabs button, then the three-dot menu button in the top left, and select the "Close all tabs" option. That will start you from a fresh slate. :)
 
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