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I'm always glad when I see Firefox churning along a new version.

My overwhelming feeling is one of gratitude to the devs and people working on Firefox. It's the last bastion of Browser independence with super-high customizability.

I also tend to use Edge over Chrome now. MS has done a pretty good job of making that a nice experience, BUT they are also pushing some less palatable ones. For instance, t used to be simple in any browser to just open a blank tab. You could set _about:blank_ as the default page. Snappy load, no crap.

Try that on Edge now. It's basically impossible from the settings.

So Firefox will always be my main driver. To me one of its killer features -apart from the great extensions- is the ability to send tabs to other instances on other devices, or fetch the tabs or history from another device (if logged under a Firefox account).



What I don't like about Firefox is the fact that it will load all the tabs and windows you had opened before shuting down the computer and there is not a clean way to make it stop. When I finish my day, I like to shutdown the computer and go to sleep or whatever and every day when I open Firefox, all the windows will reopen and I need to close it and re-start... I just want to be able to disable this behaviour from the settings, but it looks Firefox just don't want to address this


The "Restore previous session" checkbox is the first setting in the preferences for me (wording may differ a little as I'm not on the English version though). Doesn't that work for you?


Does "Restore previous session", literally the first setting not work? Firefox will reopen my tabs only if my computer doesn't cleanly shut down or I don't close it before shutting my computer down.


This doesn't directly address your problem, but I use the Total Suspender extension and it keep all the tabs from reloading when FF starts up.


by default, on a fresh I install, Firefox dont saves the tabs. You would enabled it.


While session restore of your tabs is off by default in Forex, I believe shutting down your computer while Firefoxis running is a special case. Since the user didn’t explicitly quit Firefox, it is trying to resume where you left off.


"Try that on Edge now. It's basically impossible from the settings."

Not that hard: https://imgur.com/a/yVBOnjY

clean new tab page: https://imgur.com/a/YdLyWrt


It is not new tab but what pages are open on restart.

This is where you customize new tab

https://imgur.com/a/Jzpq7Rs

This gives empty page https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/empty-new-tab-page...

Via https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftedge/forum/all/...


It boggles the mind that you have to install an extension to get that simple basic feature that was present in all browsers before.

Also, for some reason, I setup a new machine today, with latest Win10 updates and the only section I have on that setting page is _New tab page_

The other two, _When Microsoft Edge starts_ and _Home button_ are not even there...

On the customize page you show, I don't even have a setting to turn off the bing search, quicklinks, etc.


This only shows about:blank in the first windows opened (after starting Edge) but still gives me the "new tab page" with the Microsoft search bar on it for each window and tab opened subsequently (with no way I know of to set this to about:blank...)




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