Remembering window size and position with Google Chrome.
For the past year or so I’ve been using Google Chrome as my default browser, relegating Firefox for when I do some development work (I love you Firebug!). One of the annoyances that I’ve ran into recently was Chrome’s reluctance to remember it’s size and position. Don’t get me wrong, it had no problem remembering when it felt like, but it always seemed to have a sinister motive and only remember it in the worse possible locations. For instance, I have a multi-monitor setup and while browsing one day I had spanned an instance to open across all of the monitors. Ever since then, Chrome has decided to spite me and open in this position regardless of how I’ve resized and closed ever since. To prove to me it’s malicious intent, yesterday it randomly decided it would only open with the title bar visible on the monitor I have in portrait mode. This meant if i didn’t have the monitor powered at the time, it would hide my entire title bar. You evil bastard! Fortunately, my rage finally overcame my laziness to figure out and solution. For those of you suffering the same fate, here is the steps that finally worked for me:
- Open a new instance of Chrome (you may need to have only 1 instance open, but I’m not sure, I started with a fresh one just in case).
- Resize/position how you want it to open by default
- Instead of hitting the “X” to close the window, exit Chrome using the wrench > Exit.
- Reopen Chrome, confirm it saved your position and size and rejoice!
