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Firefox only restores tabs when new session opened, although set to show home page.

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My settings are set to show my home page when opening up Firefox. However, recently it automatically restores the tabs from the previous session that were open when I quit firefox.

I have tried resetting my settings, clearing the cache and cookies and nothing has worked.

How to I get firefox to show my home page on startup? (I am running Firefox 22, but had the same problem on Firefox 21)

My settings are set to show my home page when opening up Firefox. However, recently it automatically restores the tabs from the previous session that were open when I quit firefox. I have tried resetting my settings, clearing the cache and cookies and nothing has worked. How to I get firefox to show my home page on startup? (I am running Firefox 22, but had the same problem on Firefox 21)

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You can check if you have an user.js file in the Firefox profile folder that sets the browser.sessionstore.resume_session_once pref to true.

See also:

You can use this button to go to the Firefox profile folder:

  • Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Show Folder (Linux: Open Directory; Mac: Show in Finder)
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This setting is already set to false.

Any other suggestions?