Erratic firefox behavior

[Jim Byrnes]

On 08/07/2014 02:57 AM, 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!
>
> Pete S
>

Pete,

I always close all running apps before I shutdown/reboot so in my case 
Firefox misbehaves even though it was properly shutdown. I think quality 
has suffered ever since they went to the rapid release cycle, not to 
mention they keep trying to make it look more and more like Chrome.

Regards,  Jim