Erratic firefox behavior

[johnny]

On 08/08/2014 09:31 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> 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
>

Don't known if this will help. But when I first installed 14.04 it came 
with like around 28 Firefox and had just over time upgraded to 31 and 
left some of the old stuff in. About a week or so ago the CD down load 
is 14.04.1 and comes with the new Firefox 31. So I just did a new clean 
install of Ubuntu 14.04.1. I make  some changes to make things better 
and write down the ones that help and write down the ones that don't. 
Then before long I am better off starting over with a clean install. 
Have been doing that sense DOS. So I back up my Bookmarks, Address, 
Documents, etc  quite often when I start changing some things around 
just to be safe.
Good Luck Johnny333 68+++