Everytime I open my browser it restores my last session even though I have "when firefox starts go to homepage" applied
I open my browser and it restores all of the tabs I had open previously. If I click on a link within a window, it will open up another window with every single tab in the other window. I hope that makes sense. I have gone to options and clicked on applications and made sure that when firefox opens, it opens my home page. I have also tried exiting firefox by clicking firefox and exit. This has happened since updating yesterday.
Hi eaglerabbit,
This is a pretty easy fix. Just go to ''Tools > Options > General'' and change the preference for what Firefox should do on startup. You probably have it set to load tabs and pages from your previous session.
If that doesn't work, you should look at the Knowledge Base article [[Preferences are not saved]].
Hopefully this helps!
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Open the Terminal and type this command:ls -ale /Users/username The folder with a single . at the end is your home folder. It should look like this drwxr-xr-x+ and the Access Control Lists (ACLs) that it prints below the home folder should be: 0: group:everyone deny delete
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Do a malware check with some malware scanning programs on the Windows computer.<br />
You need to scan with all programs because each program detects different malware.<br />
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.<br /><br />
*http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
*http://www.superantispyware.com/ - SuperAntispyware
*http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx - Microsoft Safety Scanner
*http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx - Windows Defender: Home Page
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I am not sure why your Firefox stopped working all of a sudden. I would recommend uninstalling and then re-installing Firefox.
1) Get new download: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
2) Uninstall your current Firefox version.
3) Do not remove personal data when you uninstall the current version.
Remove the Firefox program folder before installing that newly downloaded copy of the Firefox installer.
4) It is important to delete the Firefox program folder to remove all the files and make sure that there are no problems with files that were leftover after uninstalling.
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== This happened ==
Just once or twice
== I opened Firefox accidentally and clicked cancel thinking it wouldn't open Firefox if I did that.You will find that bookmarking a page (clicking the star next to the address, or going into ''Bookmarks > Bookmark this page'' is precisely what you need to remember pages. It is a very widespread function in web browsers, and it is very ''very'' helpful in many situations, including remembering the location of pages you want to see later, providing easy access to pages you use frequently and other stuff too.
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(1) In a new tab, type or paste '''about:config''' in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.
(2) In the filter box, type or paste '''sess''' and pause while the list is filtered
(3) Double-click '''browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash''' to switch its value from false to true.
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