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This is an irksome issue that has been bothering me for years now, and I finally figured; I'm probably not the only one.

Imagine this: A dualscreen set-up, two chrome screens open. One on the first screen with a youtube/netflix/social media/etc, the other on the second screen for working.

I'm a webdeveloper so I cmd-tab a lot back and forth to my coding app. Each time I do so, when I get back to Chrome, the 'first' screen is activated, while I was working in the second. When I switch back to chrome it's a force of habit to refresh immediately, causing me to refresh the wrong screen each damn time.

This might sound like a non-issue, but I hope you can understand it's insanely infuriating. Why isn't Chrome just remembering the last active instance as the main window to activate when switching back to it?

Angry sidenote: Google is all about usability and having the experience central. Thing is, I don't really notice it at all in their apps like Maps on mobile, things like this in Chrome etc.

Asitis
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I get this problem occasionally too.

I clicked the full-screen (green, right-most) button on a Chrome window in the screen which I wanted to activate first, then toggled it off. That seemed to restore the behavior I wanted.

Vic
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if someone is facing this issue I solved this pressing f3 and opening mission control, then you must arrange your virtual spaces (Desktop 1, Desktop 2, etc...) in your respective monitors, deleting virtual spaces that not have applications running (empty), by this way I solve this problem, I hope someone find this useful.

elaineee
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