Nigel Henry wrote: > On Wednesday 13 June 2007 15:42, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> Patrick Boutilier wrote: >> >>>> The reason I suspect a bug is that when I restart the machine >>>> I always get a message from Firefox saying that the last session >>>> ended improperly, and asking me if I want to resume the last session >>>> or start a new session. >>>> >>> Did you shut down Firefox before restarting the machine? :-) >>> >> No. >> But I never used to in any previous version of Fedora, >> and it never caused any problem, >> or resulted in this warning. >> I assumed that Firefox closed properly when sent some signal. >> >> Has there in fact been a change >> either in Fedora or in Firefox >> to cause this behaviour? >> > > >> Timothy Murphy >> > > Ok. I have the same problem on Debian, where, if I leave Firefox open when I > shutdown, when I reboot, I get this warning message saying "what do you want > to do". > > This is by design. > After some time in Firefox's about:config, and also on the site at > mozillazine.org, I found this. > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.startup.page > > This has fixed the problem for me. Now when I shutdown with Firefox open, and > displaying a webpage, I reboot, and Firefox restores the session, still > displaying the webpage that was there when I shutdown, but now with no > message box. > > The procedure: > > Go to about:config in Firefox. Scroll down a bit to > browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash > > Double click on it, to change it from true to false. > > 5 lines down at, browser.startup.page, double click again, and enter 2 in the > dialog box that appears. > > That appears to fix the problem. Logged out, and back in, and Firefox is there > with the previous webpage showing. Shutdown, then rebooted. Same thing. I > havn't done a hard reset, or unplugged the machine to simulate a power out to > see if FF still comes back ok though. At least it gets rid of that message > box every time I boot up. > > Nigel. > > btw. Earlier versions of FF appeared to be using this. > > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.sessionstore.resume_session > > -- Benjamin Lewis Fedora Ambassador ben.lewis@xxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- http://benl.co.uk./ PGP Key: 0x647E480C "In cases of major discrepancy, it is always reality that got it wrong" -- RFC 1118
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