How to get rid of this Danish iWeb homepage

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Whenever I reboot my Mac (formerly 2009 13" MBP, recently migrated to a 2015 13" MBP) my Google Chrome homepage shows the following Danish iWeb help page. I no longer have iWeb installed, but I imagine it's followed me onto my new MBP via the Migration Assistant.

I've verified that my home page is setup correctly in chrome and if I close the Chrome window and re-open it my home page will be correct, so this problem only occurs once per boot.

Here's the window that I'm talking about:

I've never had my Mac set to Danish, but this Mac has gone through several family members and several OSX updates through the years.

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As both @IconDaemon and another user suggested, I noticed the MBP was just opening Chrome without the user asking it, it was on boot. This led to the "Login Items" prefpane under User Accounts which looked like this:

How did she get that 24538.html there... Once it was removed (via the minus sign), problem solved. I had no idea you could set a web page to open on login...

We cleaned up a bunch of these items after testing the removal of just the html file. Removing just the html file worked.

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