turn off auto-launch browser with 10 tabs?

[tahl_liadon]

when i launch fgu now, my chrome browser auto-launch with 10 tabs open to, i think, ads / marketing for fgu stuff?

i get it, but that's kinda uncool to auto-launch without my permission. how do i stop this?

[Speculi]

They added a web view carousel to the launcher in a recent update to show some new or interesting items from the shop... but it was never intended to open an actual browser window. See here for some of the reports:
https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?87016-Browser-window-on-return-to-launcher

If I remember right someone mentioned they will try to patch this unwanted behavior out, but in the meantime you could try to disable the entire carousel thing with the -nocef command line parameter:
https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?86949-Fantasy-Grounds-v5-1-6&p=760131&viewfull=1#post760131

Also mentioned here in the patch notes:
https://www.fantasygrounds.com/filelibrary/patchnotes_v4.html

[LordEntrails]

It's not supposed to launch a separate window, it should be embedded inside the FG launcher. If you reply with your o/s and default browser SmiteWorks might be able to resolve.

You can turn it off by adding -nocef to your FG launch command.

[tahl_liadon]

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ook. just wanted to have option to turn it off.

i'm in native win 11 environment, but using multiboot on macbook pro.

odd thing is, i have firefox as default, but fgu launched chrome.

i can wait for an update fix, np.

[Jiminimonka]

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ook. just wanted to have option to turn it off.

i'm in native win 11 environment, but using multiboot on macbook pro.

odd thing is, i have firefox as default, but fgu launched chrome.

i can wait for an update fix, np.

You can turn it off by adding -nocef to your FGU launch command.

[tahl_liadon]

You can turn it off by adding -nocef to your FGU launch command.


thx. a couple of people mentioned this... i launch fgu from the pinned icon in my taskbar. where would i apply this command?

[LordEntrails]

Right click > Properties
Then edit the target field and add a space and then -nocef
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[tahl_liadon]

Right click > Properties...

cheers!

[Trenloe]

The browsers only appear when launching a second instance of FG, or returning to the launcher with 2 instances open. Basically, running two instances of FG on the same computer causes this issue.

[tahl_liadon]

The browsers only appear when launching a second instance of FG, or returning to the launcher with 2 instances open. Basically, running two instances of FG on the same computer causes this issue.


interesting! because this is exactly what i had been doing, now that you mentioned it -- it would only happen when i booted up a 2nd instance of fgu.