Erratic firefox behavior

[Jim Byrnes]

On 08/13/2014 02:49 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> 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
>

Colin,

I guess I could have been clearer. I always want it to open a blank 
page, I never want it to open anything I happened to leave open when I 
shut it down.

I have the setting you mentioned above set to "show a blank page". For 
goo measure I have home page set to about:blank. Sometimes it honors 
that setting and sometimes it does not.  I have not been able to figure 
out what causes it to ignore my setting and open tabs I left open at 
shutdown.

Regards,  Jim