Shutting down Fedora-7

[Patrick Boutilier]

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".
> 
> 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.

But then you lose your session when Firefox does crash. Why not just 
shutdown Firefox before rebooting? :-)

> 
> Nigel.
> 
> btw. Earlier versions of FF appeared to be using this.
> 
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.sessionstore.resume_session
> 

That page clearly states:

Firefox 2 introduces a built-in Session Restore feature