Why does safari, Word etc always open with last used item

why does safari ,Word etc always open up with the last used item

Disable Mac OS X Lion Resume & App Window Restore Completely

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    Why does Safari (or any other browser with up to date Flash player) not play Facebook videos?

    You're welcome. Glad I could help.
    If you haven't done so, using Disk Utility in your Applications/Utilities folder.
    Thanks for the and Aloha from Big Island.

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    When I open firefox always opens with last session tabs? How can I fix it?

    You can check if you have a user.js file in the Firefox profile folder that sets the <b>browser.sessionstore.resume_session_once</b> pref to true.
    *http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.sessionstore.resume_session_once
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    You can use this button to go to the currently used Firefox profile folder:
    *Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Show Folder (Linux: Open Directory; Mac: Show in Finder)
    *http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
    Windows hides some file extensions by default.
    Among them are .html and .ini and .js and .txt, so you may only see file name without file extension.
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  • Why does Safari take forever to open now?

    For some reason Safari takes forever to open on my computer. This just started in the last week. The icon just bounces over and over until it finally stops with no triangular black arrow next to it. When I click on it again (after the initial bouncing) it slowly opens my home page. After reading all the other posts that might help my situation, I've reset Safari, checked for duplicate fonts, checked my proxies, thrown out Safari icons, etc.. Nothing seems to fix the problem. Any other suggestions?
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    Hi Starman
    Thank you for your quick response. When I clicked the Safari icon this morning, it opened right up, so I don't know if one of the other things I tried before really did fix it or if this is just a fluke. Should I still throw out the cache in the Safari folder? I thought 'reset Safari' in the drop down menu would have already done that. Thanks for any response.
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  • Why does excel, word and mail open when I turn on my Mac?

    When I start my Mac Pro, excel, word and mail open.  Can this be stopped?

    First of all, open the Apple menu (at the top left of the screen) > About this Mac, and tell me what OS X version you have.
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  • Why does Firefox ask me always for permission to use some obscure fonts?

    Why does Firefox always ask for permission to use some obscure fonts?
    == This happened ==
    Every time Firefox opened
    == A few weeks ago

    Yeah the whole "blame the OS" thing is a red herring. What the hell is Firefox doing looking on my external drives in the first place? It asks permission to use a font on another drive, but what else is it looking at outside of the Applications folder where it should know enough to mind its own business?

  • Why does "wecome to firefox"always open when starting firefox?

    Since updating from firefox3.xxx, every time I open the browser, Welcome to Firefox and my home page opens.How do I get "welcome" to stop opening? AND all the colors are missing from the menu bar text, only white on the arrows, reload, "house" icon etc.

    My problem was solved with Matt_G 's idea. My preference's were not disappearing, just pushed aside...............Bill

  • Does a New iMac Always Open With The Correct Screen Resolution?

    This may sound a daft question but the other day I visited a friend and when he switched his 2 year old 24" iMac on, I was horrified to see black bands down each side of the screen.
    It was obvious he had an incorrect resolution. . . . . I think it turned out to be 800x600!
    Anyway I reset it to the correct 1920x1200 and he was amazed at the improvement!
    I asked him how it had got like that and he said it had always been that way.
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    From what I remember, all my computers have started off with the correct screen resolution and haven't needed any resetting.
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    Thanks Barbara and den.thed.
    Your suggestions will be helpful for anyone with a similar problem looking at this thread, however, they don't apply in this case. (Hope that doesn't sound bad! LOL)
    This friend bought the iMac a couple of years ago simply to edit with Final Cut Pro. He doesn't use it for anything else and it isn't even connected to the internet. (He uses a PC for all mundane chores like that).
    He claims that upon initial startup it displayed the 4:3 desktop image and assumed it was normal for his machine . . . . . . . . though he must have seen others in the shops displaying correctly.
    Incidentally it may not have been 800x600, but it was certainly an incorrect 4:3 aspect ratio.
    As he is a very intelligent and skilled film maker and editor I am surprised that he never queried it, after years of using PCs.

  • Startup - why does Excel, Word & other applications open automaticallyat startup

    When I startup my iMac, blank Word and Excel pages open up.  I don't have any of those in my startup preferences.
    Why is this happening?
    jzach

    It's a 'feature' of Lion, to open up the apps you had when you closed down.
    There are a couple of inputs you can makes. When you close down, you will see a dialog box that says ''Reopen windows ehn logging back in''. Make sure this isn't checked.
    Also, if you go into sys preferences > General there is a ceck-box that says ''Restore windows when quitting and reopening apps''. Make sure this isn't checked.
    There is a long thread running about this and how to defeat it completely (inconclusive), but the instructions above are where you should start.
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  • Why does the word "attaching" sometimes appear with a progress bar at the bottom of the woindow when I have not attempted to attach anything during composition

    Occasionally, when composing and email, the word "Attaching" appears at the bottom of the window and a progress bar repeatedly sweeps as though a file is being attached, but I haven't tried to attach anything to the email.

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  • Why does Safari's Top Sites open when I click on View in iTunes?

    For some reason, whenever I click on a link in Safari that requires another application to open, (iTunes for example), now a new browser window opens to Safari's Top Sites page.  It appears to have started after the recent update. Anybody else having this problem?  Is there a solution? 

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  • Why does my flash player always crash with Firefox?

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    See also:
    *http://kb.mozillazine.org/Flash#Troubleshooting

  • Why does safari close down when mac not in use

    This just recently started in the past few days to a week. When my computer goes to sleep, safari shuts down. Any pages I have left open to come back and look at are gone. I know I can use history, but this has a never happened before.
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  • Why does Safari kicks me out while I%27m using it%3F

    While I'm using safari,messaging,mail,camera,and photos my iPad automatically kicks me out back to hone page.I can be using it barely like 5 minutes and it will kick me out..

    That's a lot of apps that are crashing on you. You can start off by clearing Safari, close all apps on the iPad, then reset the device and see how it behaves.
    Go to Settings>Safari>Clear History, Cookies and Data.
    In order to close apps in iOS 7, you have to drag the app up from the multitasking display. Double tap the home button and you will see apps lined up going left to right across the screen. Swipe to get to the app that you want to close and then swipe "up" on the app preview thumbnail to close it.
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  • Why does Safari 5.1/Lion 5.7 always open the last Web sites  when you open Safari?

    Why does Safari 5.1/Lion 5.7 always open the last Web sites  when you open Safari?
    MacBook Pro 2.33 GHz intel core2 Duo

    Welcome to the iOS world of nonthinking, wherein the OS decides everything for you, whether or not that's what you want. Salient details described in http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/features.html#resume
    See one of these to disable it:
    http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110918051930924
    http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/01/turn-off-resume-per-app-in-mac-os-x-lion/
    http://restoremenot.info/

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