I have finally made sense of this. Some running applications appear automatically in the 'Session' section, e.g. firefox, but others don't, like google-chrome. To get chrome running automatically you have to manually enter it in the 'Application Autostart' section. If you add firefox to the 'Application Autostart' you will get two firefox's starting. With this in mind autostart seem to work ok.
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