On 2016-06-24, Mike Kupfer <m.kup...@acm.org> wrote: > Is anyone else on Jessie (x86_64) seeing a problem where Firefox > (45.2.0esr-1~deb8u1) wants to reload the tabs from the previous session, > even when the preferences are set not to do that?
I'm reading (in order to wield the biggest hammer to squash the "bug") that you can 'about:config': and set browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash to false. > I normally use "show a blank page" on startup, but I was getting either > the previous tabs or the "this is embarassing" screen (where FF tells me > it was unable to restore the tabs). > > I changed to "show my home page", and I would briefly see my home page > before it was replaced by the "this is embarassing" screen. > > The problem isn't 100% reproducible, but it's close to it. > > I only have one extension (NoScript). Disabling it didn't help. > > I have a few plug-ins installed, but they are all set to Never > Activate. > *** > The problem seems tied to using exo-open. I see the problem when I > start Firefox via the "Web browser" entry in the main Xfce menu. I > don't see the problem if I invoke Firefox from the shell, Alt-F2, or a > customer launcher (which just runs "firefox"). > *** This seems like a clue someone with more mental acuity than myself might be able to exploit. There's only one firefox on your machine, correct? -- Hypertext--or should I say the ideology of hypertext?--is ultrademocratic and so entirely in harmony with the demagogic appeals to cultural democracy that accompany (and distract one’s attention from) the ever-tightening grip of plutocratic capitalism. - Susan Sontag
