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How do I stop firefox from trying to load the last page after a reboot?

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Occasionally a page will "hang" and I'll use task manager to shut it down, but sometimes it is due to a spyware program. I do not want the page to reload after restarting Firefox... how do I set it to stop trying to reload pages?

Occasionally a page will "hang" and I'll use task manager to shut it down, but sometimes it is due to a spyware program. I do not want the page to reload after restarting Firefox... how do I set it to stop trying to reload pages?

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cor-el
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Set the pref browser.sessionstore.max_resumed_crashes to 0 on the about:config page to get the about:sessionrestore page immediately with the first restart after a crash has occurred or the Task Manager was used to close Firefox.

That will allow you to deselect the tab(s) that you do not want to reopen, but will allow to reopen other tabs.

See:

To open the about:config page, type about:config in the location (address) bar and press the "Enter" key, just like you type the url of a website to open a website.
If you see a warning then you can confirm that you want to access that page.