Right-click the icon for it on your Dock, go to options and un-check "start at login".
This small checkbox can make all the difference:
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I always uncheck this before I log off, but Chrome still always open. In some cases I don't even have Chrome open before I log off.
Thanks for your suggestion, however.
Go to system settings and click users and groups, then "start objects" remove chrome from there.
that's interesting wondering if it do to tsr, pinging a web address, i'll look at netstat to see if any google addresses. maybe i can edit a host file to prevent. same issue in sierraI had this for a while, but then it stopped after my ISP gave me a new modem. I don't know if there's a relation between the two, but there it is.