Paul [pwd] Reporter
	Description • 13 years ago

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.2a1pre) Gecko/20110327 Firefox/4.2a1pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.2a1pre) Gecko/20110327 Firefox/4.2a1pre

Many users will set Firefox to remember their session and thus restore tabs when starting up. However there's no way to escape this, we should provide a method to start Firefox without restoring all your old tabs. A suggesting is holding down shift when clicking the icon. I know that holding down alt will start Firefox in safe mode.

Reproducible: Always

	Mats Palmgren (inactive)
	Comment 1 • 13 years ago

Note that Safe Mode has a dialog that allows you to quit in case you
have invoked it by mistake.  Starting a clean session would need to have
something similar to avoid dataloss in case it was invoked by mistake.

	Paul [pwd] Reporter
	Comment 2 • 13 years ago

(In reply to comment #1)
> Note that Safe Mode has a dialog that allows you to quit in case you
> have invoked it by mistake.  Starting a clean session would need to have
> something similar to avoid dataloss in case it was invoked by mistake.

No it really wouldn't, you could simply (if _need_ be) force to start on the about:home where there's a link to restore the previous session.

	[not reading bugmail]
	Comment 3 • 13 years ago

Its plausible to assume that you could add that to the safe mode box [x] do not show my tabs from last time, allow me to restore at will

	Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)
	Comment 4 • 13 years ago

(In reply to comment #0)
> A suggesting is
> holding down shift when clicking the icon. I know that holding down alt will
> start Firefox in safe mode.

Shift is the safe mode modifier, at least on Windows...

	Paul [pwd] Reporter
	Comment 5 • 13 years ago

We could use alt then, I believe that's free.

	anthonydam
	Comment 6 • 13 years ago

Private mode is here to prevent such a thing :)

	[Baboo]
	Comment 7 • 13 years ago

(In reply to comment #6)
> Private mode is here to prevent such a thing :)

This wouldn't be about privacy but about usability. As a privacy feature it would be unreliable.