Safari tabs won't automatically close on session exit

When I close Safari after browsing and then reopen the next day all the tabs from the previous session reopen and cause my browser to crash. I can't find a way to turn this off in preferences. Am I missing something?

Thanks Colin. I found the solution in the System Preferences tab under 'General'. If I uncheck the 'Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps' this will keep the tabs closed when I reopen Safari. I didn't have this issue before I installed Lion so I don't know if that is a new feature or it was just unchecked when I had Snow Leopard installed. Thanks for the suggestion tho'

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Attachments:
VISA.png ‏64 KB

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