Erratic firefox behavior

[sktsee]

On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 08:57:42 +0100, Peter Smout wrote:

> On 07/08/14 03:50, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>> Using Ubuntu 12.04 firefox from the repositories updated to version
>> 31.0
>>
>> I'm not sure exactly when it started but for sometime now Firefox has
>> been sometimes been starting up and opening whatever tabs I happened to
>> leave open when I shut it down. I don't have any tabs pinned and in
>> settings I have the startup page as about:blank.
>>
>> I looked through about:config and found the following settings, which
>> all seem to be correct.
>>
>> browser.startup.page;0 browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone;31.0
>> browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID;20140715215003
>> browser.startup.homepage;about:blank
>>
>> If I remember correctly there once was a setting that said not to
>> reopen tabs that were open at shutdown, but I can't seem to find it
>> now.
>>
>> It appears to be random.  I can shutdown with tabs open 5 times in a
>> row and have open a blank page and then the next 3 times it will open
>> what happened to be open at shutdown.
>>
>> Due to the randomness of the problem it could be a long time consuming
>> process to start disabling addons or setting up a new default profile.
>> So before I do that, I was wondering if anyone else was seeing this
>> behavior and maybe had a solution.
>>
>> Regards,  Jim
>>
>>
> Hi,
> 
> I have been seeing a similar thing but only if firefox is not shut down
> before I logout / reboot, then it tries to recover from what it sees as
> a crash!
> 
> The only solution I have found (or bothered looking for) is to shut ff
> down before logout or reboot!
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 

If you set "browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash" to false, it won't 
try to restore the last session after a crash.

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