This addresses your 8th point: http://lifehacker.com/5422014/make-google-chrome-open-with-permanently-pinned-tabs http://lifehacker.com/5422014/make-google-chr

This addresses your 8th point: http://lifehacker.com/5422014/make-google-chrome-open-with-permanently-pinned-tabs http://lifehacker.com/5422014/make-google-chrome-open-with-p... I use it for 3 different pinned tabs at startup and it works great. It would be nice to have it configurable from the options menu, but I will take what I can get.