It also wasn’t initially clear whether the problem stemmed from Chrome or Windows 10. For some reason, users keep getting signed out of Chrome and forced to sign back in.Īs MSPoweruser notes, the behavior was reported to Google’s Chromium team during the preview phase for Windows 10 2004, but the team couldn’t reproduce the error. The Edge issue has surfaced following Microsoft earlier this month automatically pushing the new browser to Windand up via Windows Update.Ĭhrome users have also reported problems with Google’s browser on the Windows Update, or Window 10 2004. The company notes that so far users have only reported some versions of Edge behaving this way, and it doesn’t yet have an explanation for why it’s launching on startup when it shouldn’t. SEE: Windows 10: A cheat sheet (TechRepublic) Microsoft is seeking feedback from users on its forum and has asked tech pros to enable diagnostic data sharing from the browser to get to the bottom of the issue. Microsoft Edge does have a setting, edge://settings/onStartup, to enable the browser to launch as Windows 10 starts up, but users are reporting that Edge is launching regardless of the setting. Microsoft is investigating a bug that causes Chromium-based Edge to automatically launch when Windows 10 version 2004 starts up, while Firefox and Chrome users are also reporting issues with this version of Windows.
