Last page visited open instead of home page!
When i open the Browser it opens to the last page i visited, I have been to menu and looked for the home page and it is still set to open?
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Hello MASTERSERV,
Just to make sure, would you please check this setting :
3-bar menu (or Tools) => Options => General
Under "Startup" - make sure that "Restore previous session" is unchecked.
If that option is checked, Firefox won't open your homepage at startup.
I have checked that many times now!
MASTERSERV said
I have checked that many times now!
From you original post I gathered that you only checked your homepage setting - sorry .....
When you're done browsing, how do you close Firefox ?
Either : 3-bar menu => "Exit" at the bottom ?
Or press Ctrl + Shift + Q on your keyboard ?
Other ?
Use one of these to close Firefox if you are currently doing that by clicking the close X on the Firefox title ba to make sure Firefox closes properly.
- "3-bar" menu button -> Exit (Power button)
- Windows: File -> Exit
- Mac: Firefox -> Quit Firefox
- Linux: File -> Quit
You can check if you have a user.js file in the Firefox profile folder that sets the browser.sessionstore.resume_session_once pref to true.
You can use the button on the "Help -> Troubleshooting Information" (about:support) page to go to the current Firefox profile folder or use the about:profiles page.
- Help -> Troubleshooting Information -> Profile Directory:
Windows: Show Folder; Linux: Open Directory; Mac: Show in Finder - http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
Session restore set to true changed to false,seems to be working,,,Thank You
Sorry, But now it is still acting the same...going back to last page visited
MASTERSERV said
Sorry, But now it is still acting the same...going back to last page visited
I asked you before : how do you close Firefox ?
You could delete or rename the user.js file in your profile folder and then restart Firefox.
Also take a look at this article :
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-to-fix-preferences-wont-save
Athraithe ag McCoy ar
Not the same page, Just the last page i was on. And i said the red X upper right hand corner as i have been doing for years!
Toggling browser.sessionstore.resume_session_once pref to false on the about:config page won't work. You need to remove user.js or at least remove the in the file.
Is there more content in user.js apart from this line as that might give a clue how this file was created?
The user.js file is read each time Firefox is started and initializes preferences to the value specified in this file, so preferences set via user.js can only be changed temporarily for the current session.
You can delete the user.js file if you didn't create this file yourself.
Note that the "Help -> Troubleshooting Information" (about:support) page shows whether there is a user.js file present in the profile folder.
MASTERSERV said
And i said the red X upper right hand corner as i have been doing for years!
I don't see you mention it, hence I asked (again).
As it must be confusing having two people giving you different suggestions, I'll back off and leave you in the capable hands of cor-el.
Athraithe ag McCoy ar
McCoy said
You could delete or rename the user.js file in your profile folder and then restart Firefox.
Also take a look at this article :
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-to-fix-preferences-wont-save
Just have to ask : did you try the above ?