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After a crash/restart how do I stop Firefox opening last webpage visited?

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After Firefox hangs/crashes (usually at one particular website: YouTube) I have to use the task manager to shut down Firefox. When I restart, it automatically restores the troublesome webpage and the hang happens all over again. How do I adjust settings so that after a performance related restart, it takes me to my homepage instead of the problematic one?

After Firefox hangs/crashes (usually at one particular website: YouTube) I have to use the task manager to shut down Firefox. When I restart, it automatically restores the troublesome webpage and the hang happens all over again. How do I adjust settings so that after a performance related restart, it takes me to my homepage instead of the problematic one?

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Firefox is designed to show a different screen if there are two consecutive crash resumptions, but perhaps there is just enough success that you aren't getting the other screen.

You might find it more convenient to always get the "choose windows and tabs" screen, so here is how you do that:

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.

(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste sess and pause while the list is filtered

(3) Double-click the browser.sessionstore.max_resumed_crashes preference and change the value from 1 to 0 and OK that.

Note: Please don't modify other sessionstore preferences without researching them first.