Crash recovery can be frustrating on Windows XP sp2 when starting FF after an ordinary XP shutdown, but there's a way to handle it, and information is available.
I'm a fairly ordinary user, but I found the following situation disproportionately abrupt and somewhat inappropriate ... and I'm not the only one who had problems with it ...
Stephen_snake wrote:To RUE,
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But now i get this window:
(?) Firefox - Restore Previous Session
Your last Firefox session closed unexpectedly. You can restore the tabs and windows from your
previous session, or start a new session if you think the problem was related to a page you were
viewing.
(buttons ->) Restore Session Start New Session
....
I actually like the idea of crash recovery, but I'm finding that it happens when I shut down my workstation normally. The operating system (Windos XP sp2) closes Firefox, as well as other software. When I start Firefox again, it acts as if there was a crash. I find the FF message, showing up the next time I start up, annoying in those cases, and there doesn't seem to be an easy-to-reach toggle in Options to turn it off. So I finally found out how to use about:config to find the browser.sessionrestore.resume_from_crash and set it to false.
Is there some way to have Firefox discriminate between forced shutdowns from the operating system, and crashes?
... by the way, for the record, this is related to the following Bugzilla entries (not an exhaustive list)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342885 Bug 342885 – Session restore launches even when I haven't crashed
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333907 Bug 333907 – XRE quits too abruptly when Windows is shut down
...And several web pages
http://sessionmanager.mozdev.org/crashrecovery/
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Session_Restore
http://kb.mozillazine.org/SessionSaver
Although SessionSaver is an installable extension, Crash Recovery is on by default (at least with my FF, version 2.0.0.3, revision 1.8.1.3).
Thank you!