[K12OSN] firefox --no-restore ?

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Peter Hartmann <ascensiontech at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  I'm not sure if I'm understanding your question correctly.  When you
>  >  click on either "Restore Session" or "Start New Session" you are not
>  >  creating a new profile.
>
>  I know.  Launching firefox witht he -p switch will create a new
>  profile.  I just wanted to be specific and say that I didn't want
>  this.
>
>
>
>  >  browser.sessionstore.enabled setting to false.  Of course, this removes
>  >  the feature altogether, including if the browser crashes rather than
>  >  being closed by the teacher.
>
>  Yep, I'm aware of this too.    I don't really want to do that
>  either....just want to disable it once.
>

Suggestions welcome. fl_tt just simply calls kill. So any tab info
will not be saved and thus the error message upon next launch. Opera
has the same behavior.  How about this idea, set the
browser.sessionstore.enabled  to false before killing firefox then
kill it, then set it back to true. If that will work can you tell me
which file is this setting in so I can code it into fl_tt.

Hmm wait a minute, I don't think this will work. If it's true when it
starts I think it will still complain.  I think any changes to the
config are only loaded at launch. So any config changes require a
restart. Any suggestions? Maybe we live with the error message. Unless
admins disable sessionstore globally. That's what I did with Opera.
The reason I did this was kids would have like 10 tabs open when they
quit, then complain it was so slow to startup when the whole class
launches their browsers the next class.

>
>  Hopefully that info is stored in a file that I can delete with a
>  script that then calls firefox.  The teacher can excecutel that
>  instead with FL_TT.
>
>  Thanks,
>  Peter
>
>
>
>
>
>  On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Henry Hartley <henryhartley at westat.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > Peter Hartmann wrote:
>  >  >>
>  >  >> If the teacher kills firefox2 with FL_Teachertool, the next time
>  >  >> it's launched the user is presented with the "firefox was shut
>  >  >> down improperly" and has the option to  start a new session or
>  >  >> restore. Is there a way to launch to a new session without
>  >  >> creating a new profile?
>  >
>  >  I'm not sure if I'm understanding your question correctly.  When you
>  >  click on either "Restore Session" or "Start New Session" you are not
>  >  creating a new profile.  You are simply opening Firefox with the same
>  >  tabs, on the same pages that were open when it crashed (or was closed
>  >  externally).  So, if your concern is with new profiles, I don't think
>  >  anything needs to be done.
>  >
>  >  If, on the other hand, you want to take away the ability to restore a
>  >  session (i.e. you want to get rid of that "Restore Previous Session"
>  >  option and always start a new session) then you can change the
>  >  browser.sessionstore.enabled setting to false.  Of course, this removes
>  >  the feature altogether, including if the browser crashes rather than
>  >  being closed by the teacher.
>  >
>  >  --
>  >  Henry
>  >
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Robert Arkiletian
Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada
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