Change:
// Always open Welcome page for first-launch, no matter what is open or which startupEditor is set. if ( product.enableTelemetry <ins> && product.showTelemetryOptOut </ins> && getTelemetryLevel(this.configurationService) !== TelemetryLevel.NONE && !this.environmentService.skipWelcome && !this.storageService.get(telemetryOptOutStorageKey, StorageScope.GLOBAL)

Discussion:
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I actually wonder if this is related to It looks like there was an issue which forced the Welcome page to always open in the web which was fixed in that PR.
Yes this should be resolved by . closedWith
Hi just switched over to Insider (, a slightly newer commit), and the Welcome tab is indeed gone, but it looks like there's now a Getting Started tab that opens by default in new Codespaces, even with in our , per the screenshot below. (I gather from that Get Started might just be the new title for what was previously the Welcome tab.) Should the setting above be suppressing the Get Started tab, though? Many thanks! !
cc is there a chance codepaces is setting ?
No, that should not be the case.
what platform are you using to access codespaces? i.e. Desktop Insiders or the online codespace URL?

I see in the telemetry notice at the bottom of the editor there's , hinting that this may be on Desktop, in which case we do expect that notice to show. We do not expect it to show when accessing via the URL however.
Hi that was from a Codespaces URL but indeed using Insiders. I just deleted that Codespace, though, and created a new (non-Insider) Codespace (based on ), also with . The Welcome tab still appeared in that Codespace, but I imagine that's expected since it's an older commit, 2021-09-10T17:07:52.819Z (4 wks ago)? <img width="931" alt="Screen Shot 2021-10-09 at 10 22 07 AM" src="https://user-"
Yes, the case of connecting to a Codespace via Insiders is a bit of an oddball, as we must display the telemetry notice in Insiders but we don't need it in Codespaces. This should be fixed for Codespaces accessed via the browser in the next stable release. .