Erratic firefox behavior

[Colin Law]

On 14 August 2014 03:18, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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.

Sounds like a bug then.  Not very helpful, I know.  I guess most want
it to re-open previous tabs.

Colin