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How to stop tabs restoring from previous session.

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VexedVirgo
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This started a couple weeks ago when I open a new window, all the tabs from the previous session open. I have it set to open to my homepage and it always has been. I didn't change any settings, install any new addons (I read some can cause this, and none of the addons ever caused this before). I also haven't used the restore session from History or anything similar.

I've tried switching it to open a blank page, but it still always opened previous tabs. I've looked through all kinds of FAQ's and questions, but can't find a solution. How can I fix this?

This started a couple weeks ago when I open a new window, all the tabs from the previous session open. I have it set to open to my homepage and it always has been. I didn't change any settings, install any new addons (I read some can cause this, and none of the addons ever caused this before). I also haven't used the restore session from History or anything similar. I've tried switching it to open a blank page, but it still always opened previous tabs. I've looked through all kinds of FAQ's and questions, but can't find a solution. How can I fix this?

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Amit Kumar Thakur
Amit Kumar Thakur
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please try the following in order to switch off sessionrestore completely: enter about:config into the firefox location bar (confirm the info message in case it shows up) & search for the preferences named browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo and browser.sessionstore.max_windows_undo. double-click on those entries and change both of their values to 0.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.sessionstore.max_windows_undo

VexedVirgo
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I found that answer while digging through similar questions, they're both set at 0, but for some reason it didn't fix the issue. Thank you though for the help.

cor-el
cor-el
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You can check if you have an user.js file in the Firefox profile folder that sets the browser.sessionstore.resume_session_once pref to true.

Are there other browser.sessionstore.* prefs that weren't the default?

You can check the browser.sessionstore.* prefs on the about:config page and reset user set (bold) browser.sessionstore.*prefs to the default value via the right-click context menu to make sure that Session Restore is enabled and working properly.