How to stop crash "Well this Embarrasing" page

[leegold]

Hi,

Using Ubuntu, FF20, when I do a hard reboot or there's a crash and I
start up again I get "Well this is Embarrassing..." page and it shows
a listing of websites I was on when FF crashed - and asks me to start
fresh or regain those pages. I see the utility of this, but I no
matter what I want my homepage to open instead and hopefully traces of
were I was deleted for privacy reason since this is a shared PC.

How do I do this?

Thanks

[WaltS]

Don't do hard reboots.

Figure out why Firefox is crashing.

<https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-crashes-troubleshoot-prevent-and-get-help>

Use Private Browsing for your sessions.

<https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/private-browsing-browse-web-without-saving-info>

Set up separate user accounts on your computer. Not knowing which
version you have I selected this guide.

<https://help.ubuntu.com/12.10/serverguide/user-management.html>

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openSUSE 12.3 (64-bit) KDE 4.10.2
Thunderbird Daily 23.0a1

[EE]

You can disable a setting in the about:config list.
browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash - set to false

[WaltS]

What if the other users on the shared computer want the session restored
after a crash or hard boot?

Why does anyone have to do a hard boot on a Linux system? Does the user
mean warm boot Ctrl+Al+Del? I have had to press the Reset button very
occasionally.

Why is the computer shared without having separate user accounts?

Why don't you want them to figure out why Firefox is crashing?

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openSUSE 12.3 (64-bit) KDE 4.10.2

Thunderbird Beta 21.0b1

[Swifty]

On 06/05/2013 19:47, WaltS wrote:
> Why don't you want them to figure out why Firefox is crashing?

I don't believe that the OP implied that FireFox is crashing, but merely
the victim of a system crash or system restart, where it gets no chance
the close properly.

[clay]

I've seen Firefox behave differently in Linux. Whereas the 'X' close
button /usually/ quits the ap in Windows, I've found it does not quit
the ap in (Ubuntu) Linux.
Could easily result in a shutdown with Firefox running.

[»Q«]

That's possible, but it's not generally a problem with Firefox and
Linux.

[Mark Filipak]

On 2013/5/7 5:35 PM, �Q� wrote:
> On Tue, 07 May 2013 13:04:06 -0700
> clay <c...@ymation.com> wrote:
>
>> Swifty wrote:
>>> On 06/05/2013 19:47, WaltS wrote:
>>>> Why don't you want them to figure out why Firefox is crashing?
>>>
>>> I don't believe that the OP implied that FireFox is crashing, but
>>> merely the victim of a system crash or system restart, where it
>>> gets no chance the close properly.

Sorry to take so long to contribute. It's been many years since my Windows has
crashed, but I see "Well, this is embarrassing" maybe once every week or so. It
usually happens when FF first starts. I don't remember it happening since
version 20, so maybe this is ancient history.
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[EE]

On 2013-05-07 15:20, Mark Filipak wrote:
> On 2013/5/7 5:35 PM, �Q� wrote:
>> On Tue, 07 May 2013 13:04:06 -0700
>> clay <c...@ymation.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Swifty wrote:
>>>> On 06/05/2013 19:47, WaltS wrote:
>>>>> Why don't you want them to figure out why Firefox is crashing?
>>>>
>>>> I don't believe that the OP implied that FireFox is crashing, but
>>>> merely the victim of a system crash or system restart, where it
>>>> gets no chance the close properly.
>
> Sorry to take so long to contribute. It's been many years since my
> Windows has crashed, but I see "Well, this is embarrassing" maybe once
> every week or so. It usually happens when FF first starts. I don't
> remember it happening since version 20, so maybe this is ancient history.

It is recent history. Version 20 started doing that. Apparently it is
a bug, and the recommendation of someone contributing to Bugzilla was to
set browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash in about:config to false.

[The Real Bev]

FWIW, it sometimes happens to me when I do a normal quit. No crash
involved, no control-alt-backspace to kill X and everything I have
running under it, just a normal shutdown. Slackware, not ubuntu.

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Cheers, Bev
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Why can't we all just get along and do things my way?

[The Real Bev]

Slackware. The only way I can actually close FF is with the X in the
upper right corner. Quitting from the 'file' menu doesn't. Probably
due to some extension, but I don't want to get rid of any; fortunately
there's still a way to quit.