How do I turn off "restore previous session"?

When I open FireFox-it gives me the option to "restore previous setting" How do I turn this feature off?

Hi Tater23,
Try going to ''Tools > Options > General'' and see if you have set Firefox to restore your previous session on startup. For detailed information on setting up the homepage, you should take a look at the Knowledge Base article [[How to set the home page]].
Hopefully this helps!

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*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Private+Browsing
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Just lost my full post, so, sorry for the abruptness.
Here's what I have:
<pre><nowiki><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html [
<!ENTITY % htmlDTD
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
%htmlDTD;
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%aboutHomeDTD;
<!ENTITY % browserDTD SYSTEM "chrome://browser/locale/browser.dtd" >
%browserDTD;
]>
<HTML>
<button class="launchButton" id="restorePreviousSession">&historyRestoreLastSession.label;</button>
</HTML></nowiki></pre>
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!

If someone can tell me this forum's tags for posting code, I'll gladly correct my original post so you can correctly see the code that I'm using. >.<

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Hello,
You could read this-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_4#Migration_issues
But if you really want to go to Firefox 3.6,
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older
and click the "Download" link for English Windows.

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* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Session_Restore#Restoring_a_session_after_a_crash
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.sessionstore.max_resumed_crashes
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* https://wiki.mozilla.org/Session_Restore#Preferences
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'''IT'S A EASY AS IT SHOULD BE.'''
This is essentially paulbruster's answer, but I've added the steps some might assume, but which aren't so obvious to those of us who are new at this, like me.
This solution might ''appear'' to be long and complicated, but after you follow the directions once, you'll find it's quick, clean, and simple. Almost like they designed it this way.
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What do you have checked in Firefox Preferences>General?
Ciao.

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These to pages do NOT apply: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/restore-previous-session
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-restore-my-tabs-last-time
There is No option to restore previous session when I go into History. There is No Recent history in the History. It will show my history if I click on show History, but it won't restore it!

Hi StuckAtHomeMom
try in PRIVACY panel to set : Firefox will: Use custom settings for history and :
Uncheck: [ ] "Always use private browsing mode"
Uncheck: [ ] "Clear history when Firefox closes"
check everything else and in Accept third-party cookies, set Keep until: they expire
thank you
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Hi there
why does RESTORE PREVIOUS SESSION not work after a few sessions?
I use Firefox twice per day and each time I boot up my PC (WIndows 7), it prompts me to restore my previous session. I realised after a few of these boot-up sessions, it DOES NOT allow me to restore my previous session. Going to History, the tab "restore previous session" is unclickable too.
How does one RETAIN restore previous session PERMANENTLY? I'm using Firefox 24.0
Kindly advise me.
Thanks
Joseph
[email protected]

And then after opening Firefox, and then what? If you're trying to help it'd be appreciative you are clear and complete with your instructions.
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