Firefox reloads the last website upon launch instead of my homepage

I have a suspicious pop-up on a certain URL. I closed the broswer with Ctrl+Alt+Del. Firefox keeps reloading this site upon launch. I would like the option to reload the last site, say on a crash, or goto my home page like IE does.
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== This is default Firefox behaviour ==
== User Agent ==
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0)

Set the pref [http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.sessionstore.max_resumed_crashes browser.sessionstore.max_resumed_crashes] to '''0''' on the '''about:config''' page to get the about:sessionrestore page immediately with the first restart after a crash has occurred or the Task Manager was used to close Firefox.
See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Session_Restore#Preferences
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.sessionstore.max_resumed_crashes
See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Session_Restore#Firefox_keeps_crashing_after_restoring_a_session

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