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When I use the shutdown feature, firefox tabs are retained on boot, even though that feature is turned off.

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Am running on linux with KDE. When I press the software shutdown button in KDE, and reboot, the tabs in firefox remain, even though I disabled that from happening in settings.

Am running on linux with KDE. When I press the software shutdown button in KDE, and reboot, the tabs in firefox remain, even though I disabled that from happening in settings.
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cor-el
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Make sure you close Firefox properly and not let the Linux OS close Firefox as in that case your session automatically will get restored (this sets: browser.sessionstore.resuming_after_os_restart => true).

jonzn4SUSE
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This could have something to do with it. see screenshot Let try this in another user account and see what happens.

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As cor-el mentioned, you need to close Firefox before rebooting or shutting down if you don't want the previous session restored. I was able to replicate your issue with the option not check, my Firefox session with 3 windows was restored after rebooting.


Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20240214 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.10 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0 Qt Version: 5.15.12 Kernel Version: 6.7.4-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5825U with Radeon Graphics Memory: 62.1 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics Manufacturer: HP Product Name: HP ProBook 455 15.6 inch G9 Notebook PC