User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0 Build ID: 20130326150557 Steps to reproduce: Launched Firefox 20 Actual results: Error screen saying Firefox can't recover windows and tabs Expected results: Clean launch to my home page (Google)

Did not want it to recover anything, just launch to my home screen as it always has done forever. Coud not find a way to turn off

There is a topic about this issue: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2670839 Does Firefox crash when you close it? In addition, are you able to reproduce the issue with a fresh profile: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

(In reply to Loic from comment #2) > There is a topic about this issue: > http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2670839 > > Does Firefox crash when you close it? Firefox does not crash upon closing. Closing the screen about fail to recover takes me to my Google home page > In addition, are you able to reproduce the issue with a fresh profile: > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove- > firefox-profiles Have not tried this or plan to

Peter, thanks for reporting this! It sounds like other people are also seeing this problem, and I don't think making a new profile is necessarily the answer. Possibly something is going on with private browsing and/or session storing. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/955603?esab=a&s=embarrassing&r=0&as=s I think this bug is a duplicate of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=855785 so I'm going to redirect the conversation there.