First, everybody who does not know what the “Firefox Preloader” is, I’ll explain it. But that’s not really why I’m writing this article, with the new 2.0 releases there is a major problem, where the Session Restorer thinks that Firefox crashed.
Normally, on Windows, when you start Internet Explorer, it’ll be immediately shown because it’s integrated in the system. Firefox just needs 10-20s to start, in cause of this, someone wrote the program Firefox Preloader which loads parts of Firefox into the RAM so that the Firefox-windows open immediately too.
With Firefox 2.0 there occurred a problem with the Preloader and the Session Restore Manager, which always thinks Firefox crashed last time, the only solution at the moment, is to turn off the Session Manager, so that Firefox Preloader starts quietly without showing this Session Restore window. Disabling the Session Manager is easily done by going to about:config. There perform a right-click and choose New->Boolean, name it browser.sessionstore.enabled and add the value false.
Now there will no more annoying Session Restore Popups at System Start.
Notice: This is a translation of the German Article Preloader mit Firefox 2.0, which was highly requested.
Technorati-Tags:firefox, preloader, 2.0, internet, explorer, session, restore
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I turned browser.sessionstore.enabled to false and the restore window dissapeared, but then I lost the possibility of undo close tabs, which I appreciate. I have discovered that if you turn this value to true and browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash to false both problems are solved.
Bitchin!
I like using save session and exit but hated having the error message at startup.
I had to create the new Boolean string browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash
I did not have it.