Chrome on Windows will let users launch the browser in the foreground at startup

No matter how many dedicated apps you have installed on your PC, you probably live most of your life in the browser.

Google’s well aware of this it’s the entire concept behind ChromeOS, after all and now, it’s bringing a new setting that’s going to allow Windows users to launch Chrome right from the jump.

Currently, Google Chrome doesn’t include the ability to launch right from a Windows boot.

Although it does support Windows’ startup apps list, keeping that toggle enabled just activates the browser in the background it doesn’t specifically auto-launch a new Chrome window.

There are methods to making this work, but you’ll typically need to input some command line prompts to get it started, and for the vast majority of PC users, that’s a tricky hoop to jump through.

As reported by Chrome Story, the latest Canary build of Chrome is changing this, thanks to a new flag added to settings that specifically “launch[es] Chrome automatically to begin browsing instantly.”

Currently, this flag is off by default; toggling it on brings about a permissions prompt that reads “Begin browsing instantly: Chrome can now launch when Windows starts,” along with an Allow button.