Firefox loads last site on startup

Starting today, starting Firefox v. 26.0 loads the last site I was at from the previous session. I read all of the fixes from previous editions and none worked. Start up is set to blank page and I made the changes in about:config. I reinstalled Firefox. Problem still there.
Haven't downloaded anything today that might have done this so I'm stumped.
Any suggestions?

One possible reason for this is an instruction in a user.js file. Firefox checks for a user.js file at startup, and it will override your own preferences. This article describes how to check for this possible problem: [[How to fix preferences that won't save]].
''Note: If Windows hides .js and other file extensions, you can turn on the display of file extensions (so you can work with files more accurately) using the steps in this article: [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/865219].''
If you find a file and want to check the file contents, you'll need to open it in a text editor (don't double-click) and look for "browser.sessionstore.resume_session_once" set to true.
A second possible reason is if Firefox is not shutting down cleanly, and is always recovering from a perceived crash. To see whether this is the issue, you can change what Firefox does after a crash so that instead of automatically showing previous session tabs, it shows you a list of tabs. Here's how:
(A) In a new tab, type or paste '''about:config''' in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.
(B) In the search box above the list, type or paste '''sess''' and pause while the list is filtered
(C) Double-click the '''browser.sessionstore.max_resumed_crashes''' preference and enter 0 (that's a zero) and click OK.
The next time Firefox starts if you get the screen saying "this is embarrassing" and showing a list of your last session tabs, then the problem is that Firefox is crashing during shutdown.
Does any of that help with your startups?

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