Erratic firefox behavior (repost)

[Jim Byrnes]

On 08/14/2014 08:40 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote:

For some reason the list decided I was not a subscriber and held this 
message, despite the fact I started the thread.  Interested to see if it 
gets through this time.

> On 08/14/2014 03:15 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>> 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
>>
>
> I guess my preference is a hold over from the old days of running OS/2.
> Back then it was possible for certain web sites to crash Firefox then
> you were stuck in an endless loop of crashes until you fixed it.
>
> Regards,  Jim