Firefox reopening windows after reboot
I sometimes reboot to get out of an unresponsive window situation. Often, after the reboot, on restarting Firefox it will automatically reload the windows I had had open. Is there a way of stopping this from happening? If I've rebooted, I don't want all the windows because one of then had a problem in it. I just want to open the ones I choose.
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Forgot to say FF40 and XP Pro.
Hi, please see How to set the home page, and make sure that 'When Firefox starts' isn't set to 'Show my windows and tabs from last time.'
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Firefox will automatically try to restore the tabs and windows from the last session if a crash has occurred or Firefox didn't close properly the previous time.
If the session crashes another time then you will get the "Well this is embarrassing" page (about:sessionrestore) the next time you start Firefox.
You can set the browser.sessionstore.max_resumed_crashes pref to 0 on the about:config page to get the about:sessionrestore page immediately with the first start after a crash has occurred or the Task Manager was used to close Firefox.
I don't see the point of having a home page, and even in my IE days (before finding Netscape...) I had blank page set for home. The 'restore previous' option there has never been selected. (I do ask people the 'you've plugged it in - have you switched it on?' question myself...) I've tried the browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash thing, and wait to see what happens. (It's not usually a crash - it's me hitting reboot to get out of something that won't stop or go away.) I can't be the only person who wants this stopped, and wonder why it's not an easier to set option in Tools. There are a lot of us who used to be quite technical in the days of MS-DOS (because you HAD to be), but who now can just get on with doing things instead of twiddling technicalities to get the thing to run. (I'm a DTP pro and music setter.) We expect quick to set (and find) options now that come up in menus. Possibly unreasonable of us... Thanks for the help. I'll post what happens next.
Well, I followed the instructions, put the <pref> name in and set to <0>. Couldn't find a way of saving, and I presume it didn't because it hasn't worked.