How can I make Firefox stop bugging me with my last session?
by pino83 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6FR39)
I learned a lot about Linux and the world around it in the last >20a, and sooner or later I understood most of the things that I wanted to know. Quite technical and hidden things sometimes. I can define my own systemd services, or write my own hello world kernel module and then debug in via Eclipse in a qemu vm. But it turns out there is one question that constantly make me feel stupid:
What the hell do I have to do with Firefox in order to completely disable session restoring?
When I click on my FF icon, I want a blank FF window. In particular, I don't want to get my tabs from the last session after a reboot.
That seems to be terribly hard?! What is going on there? There are some keys in about:config that appear to be related. You find some of them on the web as well. I tried all of them, but to no avail.
Yes, I know, there is "restore on crash", and the 'usual' restore. I'm sure that I've disabled both, also all kinds of other flags, set all kinds of maximum values to 0, but whatever I do, after booting, it says "hey, here are your 20 tabs from yesterday again" when I start FF.
There must be some way, because I have at least one installation that behaves like I want. But in general, I remember to fight against that issue since around a decade now. And most of the time, after a fresh system installation, I tried for an hour or two, and then gave up, I guess.
I'm not sure if it's Linux specific and even Debian specific. My memory tells me that I ran into that issue on Windows installations as well, but it was eventually solvable there. But I'm not sure. I don't deal so much with non-Linux system, and my last Windows FF installation is some time ago.
What the hell do I have to do with Firefox in order to completely disable session restoring?
When I click on my FF icon, I want a blank FF window. In particular, I don't want to get my tabs from the last session after a reboot.
That seems to be terribly hard?! What is going on there? There are some keys in about:config that appear to be related. You find some of them on the web as well. I tried all of them, but to no avail.
Yes, I know, there is "restore on crash", and the 'usual' restore. I'm sure that I've disabled both, also all kinds of other flags, set all kinds of maximum values to 0, but whatever I do, after booting, it says "hey, here are your 20 tabs from yesterday again" when I start FF.
There must be some way, because I have at least one installation that behaves like I want. But in general, I remember to fight against that issue since around a decade now. And most of the time, after a fresh system installation, I tried for an hour or two, and then gave up, I guess.
I'm not sure if it's Linux specific and even Debian specific. My memory tells me that I ran into that issue on Windows installations as well, but it was eventually solvable there. But I'm not sure. I don't deal so much with non-Linux system, and my last Windows FF installation is some time ago.