diff --git a/src/app/browser-window.service.ts b/src/app/browser-window.service.ts
index f03778943f3ae11f48b4a3df9b696418de06cce0..7ba90bacffdd16c19d76551b80fd422b72f9f581 100644
--- a/src/app/browser-window.service.ts
+++ b/src/app/browser-window.service.ts
@@ -42,35 +42,29 @@ export class BrowserWindowService {
 
 
  private windowLoaded(window: any, location: string): boolean {
-   console.log('in windowloaded testing');
-   console.log(window.location);
    try {
      if (window.location.toString() == location) {
-       console.log('location match');
        return true;
      }
-     console.log('location not match');
      return false;
    } catch {
      return true;
    }
  }
 
- public openAppWindow( job: Job, url: any, basicAuth: boolean ) {
+ public openAppWindow( job: Job, url: any, basicAuth: boolean, action: AppAction ) {
      var re = /^https:\/\/([a-z0-9\.-]+)\/?/;
      let twshost = this.twsproxy.replace(re,"$1");
-     console.log('in openappwindow url is ',url);
      let windowloc = url.replace(/\{twsproxy\}/g,this.twsproxy).replace(/twshost/g,twshost);
-     console.log('window loc is',windowloc);
      var authwindow = null;
    
      if (basicAuth) {
        let authwindowloc = windowloc.replace(/^https:\/\//,'https://'+job.appinst.username+':'+job.appinst.password+'@');
        authwindow = window.open(authwindowloc);
-       this.authdone$.pipe(take(1)).subscribe( () => { authwindow.close() ; this.finishAppWindow(windowloc,job) });
+       this.authdone$.pipe(take(1)).subscribe( () => { authwindow.close() ; this.finishAppWindow(windowloc,job,action) });
        interval(500).pipe(takeUntil(this.authdone$),filter((v) => this.windowLoaded(authwindow, authwindowloc))).subscribe( () => this.authdone$.next(true));
      } else {
-       this.finishAppWindow(windowloc,job);
+       this.finishAppWindow(windowloc,job, action);
      }
  }
 
@@ -92,7 +86,7 @@ export class BrowserWindowService {
     })
   }
 
-   public finishAppWindow(windowloc: any, job:Job) {
+   public finishAppWindow(windowloc: any, job:Job, action: AppAction) {
      let appwindow = window.open(windowloc);
      if (appwindow == null) {
          this.notifications.notify('It looks like a window failed to open. Please check your popup blocker settings (Strudel 2 needs to be able to open a window to your application');
@@ -101,6 +95,8 @@ export class BrowserWindowService {
      if (appwindow.closed) {
        return
      }
-     this.openapps.push({'window':appwindow,'job':job})
+     if (action.name == "Connect") { // actions like viewing logs don't cause us to monitor for the window closing. Only actions like connecting to desktops/jupyter labs
+      this.openapps.push({'window':appwindow,'job':job})
+     }
  }
 }
diff --git a/src/app/launch-dialog/launch-dialog.component.ts b/src/app/launch-dialog/launch-dialog.component.ts
index 3f48ea3031840a941664a772fb7ecb119c0fe843..f563e718ce425f0f57c3fa3213f98e56d41813b5 100644
--- a/src/app/launch-dialog/launch-dialog.component.ts
+++ b/src/app/launch-dialog/launch-dialog.component.ts
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ export class LaunchDialogComponent implements OnInit {
     this.height=0;
     this.submitcmd.subscribe(() => this.canILaunch());
     this.appData.subscribe(() => this.canILaunch());
-    this.tesService.openWindow$.subscribe((v) => { console.log('openWindow$ ',v); this.browserWindowService.openAppWindow(v.job,v.url,v.usebasicauth)})
+    this.tesService.openWindow$.subscribe((v) => { console.log('openWindow$ ',v); this.browserWindowService.openAppWindow(v.job,v.url,v.usebasicauth,v.action)})
     this.browserWindowService.cancelJob$.subscribe((v) => this.tesService.cancel(v))
 
   }
diff --git a/src/app/tes.service.ts b/src/app/tes.service.ts
index 8762d6ecbee91baf7898c26a28ba6baab254ea9f..76c8e4466679a07d1c1733746e188c3a792f8fe7 100644
--- a/src/app/tes.service.ts
+++ b/src/app/tes.service.ts
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ private addUserHealth(identity,resp) {
    job.connectionState = 3;
    this.http.get<string>(this.Base+'/appurl?'+paramstr,options)
                 .pipe(catchError(this.handleError))
-     .subscribe((resp) => {  job.connectionState = 0; this.openWindow$.next( {'job':job, 'url': <string> resp, 'usebasicauth':action.client.usebasicauth})});
+     .subscribe((resp) => {  job.connectionState = 0; this.openWindow$.next( {'job':job, 'url': <string> resp, 'usebasicauth':action.client.usebasicauth,'action':action})});
        //[this.browserWindowService.openAppWindow(resp,job,action)});
  }