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Stop session restore after crash?

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Samzkulesa
Samzkulesa
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My computer is very bad. If I'm on a slightly-intensive page, it will often freeze up and I will have to end the firefox process from the task manager. When I start up, it always tries to restore those pages. I don't want that. This is not because session restore is the "when firefox starts" problem. Help me please? I am not good with computers and need VERY THOROUGH FOR-DUMMIES-ESQUE INSTRUCTIONS if possible.

Thank you.

My computer is very bad. If I'm on a slightly-intensive page, it will often freeze up and I will have to end the firefox process from the task manager. When I start up, it always tries to restore those pages. I don't want that. This is not because session restore is the "when firefox starts" problem. Help me please? I am not good with computers and need VERY THOROUGH FOR-DUMMIES-ESQUE INSTRUCTIONS if possible. Thank you.

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TonyE
TonyE
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  1. Type about:config into the location bar and press enter
  2. Accept the warning message that appears, you will be taken to a list of preferences
  3. Locate the preference browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash and double-click on it to change its value to false
cor-el
cor-el
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You can also set the pref browser.sessionstore.max_resumed_crashes to 0 on the about:config page to get the about:sessionrestore page immediately with the first restart after a crash has occurred or the Task Manager was used to close Firefox.

That will allow you to deselect the tab(s) that you do not want to reopen, but will allow to reopen the other tabs.

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