The Unwanted Recovery
Google Chrome is designed to be highly resilient against data loss. If the browser crashes due to a poorly coded website, a system power failure, or if you force-quit the application via Task Manager, Chrome assumes it was closed abnormally. The next time you open the browser, it may automatically restore your previous session, reopening every single tab you were looking at before the crash. While this is a lifesaver if you were in the middle of writing an email, it is a privacy nightmare if you were browsing sensitive information and someone else opens Chrome on your shared computer before you do.
Disabling the Crash Recovery Bubble
To ensure Chrome always opens to a blank slate and stop it from automatically restoring your previous session after an abnormal exit, you must modify a hidden browser configuration file.
Chrome does not offer a simple toggle for crash recovery in its standard settings menu. You must edit its preferences file while Chrome is completely closed. First, close Google Chrome entirely (ensure no background processes are running). On Windows, press the Windows key + R, type %localappdata%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default, and press Enter. Locate a file named Preferences (it has no file extension). Right-click it and open it with Notepad. Press Ctrl+F to open the search box and search for exit_type. You will likely see it set to "Crashed". Change the word “Crashed” to "Normal" (keep the quotation marks). Save the file (Ctrl+S) and close Notepad. Note: Chrome will rewrite this file if it crashes again. To make this permanent, right-click the Preferences file, select Properties, check the Read-only box, and click OK.