Erratic firefox behavior

[Colin Law]

On 7 August 2014 03:50, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> 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.
> ...
> 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.
>

Edit > Preferences > General > 'When Firefox starts:' 'Show my windows
and tabs from last time'

Colin