When I click on Firefox in my dock I sometimes go to a restore msg or a goto this address instead of my aol home page

I just started Firefox yesterday....I put fox on my dock....sometimes when I click on Firefox in my dock I get an error message showing a restore button or I go to a blank page
showing "go to this address"... on my third click I go to my homepage aol.com
I like ffox and I am going to use it a lot thanks
Jim Bradley I use MAC BOOK10.6.8 
I would like when I select Firefox in my dock I go right to AOL

My eyes hurt from all caps... I think it could be this issue:
There is a "bug" in Firefox 20 on Mac OS X where if you close all the pages and then Quit Firefox, it thinks it crashed and starts with the crash recovery screen on the next startup.
Two workarounds until this is fixed:
(1) Quit with at least one page open; or
(2) Don't try to restore the previous session after a crash. Here's how that is changed:
(i) In a new tab, type or paste '''about:config''' in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.
(ii) In the search box in that tab, type or paste '''sessions''' and pause while the list is filtered
(iii) Double-click '''browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash''' to toggle its value from true to false.
This should be fixed in a future release of Firefox.

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