Safari launches a window and contains several tabs

Oh boy, My Safari was perfect for the most part in the last 3 years, that is to say, if I launch Safari to browse the web, the browser would launch with a new window, fresh with default page starting at top sites. And by top sites, I mean the various web sites or pages that i have previously gone to recently most frequently. These pages are presented in miniaturized thumbnails of the whole page, or the top part of the page, and are neatly presented in 4, 8, or 12 slots tabulation for my choosing, or that my keyboard focus would already be on the address bar so I could type any other url as I wish. But until the last 1-2 updates ago I start to notice something strange, when I launch Safari, the browser doesn't go to the usual way as I described above, instead it launches a window and contains several tabs. Of which are places i have been recently, but I wouldn't call those as "top sites" by a long shot. At first I didn't realize what's happening exactly. In fact it seemed to me a bit like when my Safari reopen the tabs from my previous session. It first started with a few tabs, and then a few more each week (actually my main browser is now Chrome sorry to say, but there are several personal reasons that I still use Safari to browse certain web sites, therefore, I may not open and use Safari every day. I think last week was still just 10 tabs or so, now it's 156 tabs... my mac constipates from the sharp drain of memory and it now happens even before the browser window has started rendering. Usually, when my mac is done with beach balling, i immediately right click on the first tab I see, and select "close all other tabs", then command-w to close the last tab. Then I reopen new tab/window (cmd-n) and start my browsing all fresh. A new window launches, but only to dump the 156 tabs all over on me again. clearing web data, cookies, clearing cache, disabling all extensions, nothing seems to work so far. And the Apple Care Support would probably tell me to format the hard disk and reinstall new. I've been down that road too many times already, almost as much as I had to do the same thing when i was using windows. Ugh, even Chrome is far from perfect, that's why i come back to Safari from time to time. And I find my Firefox experience is still clunky, ugh. Have we fallen in to the Dark Ages for web browsers or something?
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Of which are places i have been recently
Delete the cache ..
Open a Finder window. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder
Type or copy paste the following
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db
Click Go then move the Cache.db file to the Trash.
Quit and relaunch Safari to test.

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