I want Safari to open on my chosen home page when I open it each time. I hate this new "resume" feature where it returns to the last page that was open when I was browsing before I closed the application. Anyone know how I can disable this so my browser opens on my chosen home page that I have in my preferences when I re-open the Safari Application?
Mac Pro/Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.2)
In System Preferences -> General, you can turn off Resume completely, if you prefer đ
Checking the box in System Preferences -> General -> Restore windows... does not work for me. Resume still does its thing next time I log in.
Even though i go to System Preferences -> General and turn off Resume, the windows and apps are still restored when I reboot!!! đ
Just do Option-Cmd-Quit ('Quit and Discard Windows'), or hold down the option key when you choose Quit from the application menu..
This works in Safari and all other Mac OS apps. To turn off permanently look here:
Yes, I know how to turn it off permanently, but the problem is that the apps still open when I restart the computer đ
The general advice for killing Resume (by unchecking Preferences > General > Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps) does NOT turn Resume of permanently, as Tazthed points out; it only stops apps using Resume if you Quit them and then re-open them. OSX Lion does not 'quit' the apps for you when you shutdown the computer, and so any apps that you didn't quit will still Resume on restart.
The answer is to uncheck the option in the Shut down screen (see below), which by default is checked. What I would like to know is can anyone tell me how to change the default behaviour of the dialogue box so that it is unchecked?
What you're really looking for is this. Go to terminal and type in the following:
defaults write com.apple.Safari ApplePersistenceIgnoreState YES
If you decide that you rather have the new resume behavior, execute the above commands but change YES to NO.
You can also do the same for Preview:
defaults write com.apple.Preview ApplePersistenceIgnoreState YES
Thanks Mark, that is helpful but its only app specific.
Do you know if there is a system-wide command that will turn of resume, or make that option (see screenshot two posts up) in the shutdown dialogue box change its default behaviour to unchecked?
TIA
Go under System Preferences and then click general. Then where it says "Number of recent items" I changed all to none and its worked. Now safari starts to my home page and OSX Lion reboots up to the desktop only.
@markfalta: I tried that with the Terminal but Safari still opens after reboot/restart...
@Tazthed
instead of the word 'YES' at the end of those commands use
-bool TRUE
or
-bool YES
(don't forget the dash)
Let us know if that works.
Message was edited by: softwater to add content/clarification
@Blue99ls1: this method doesn't work. All the apps still open after reboot.
@ softwater: No, it didn't work with "-bool true".
Sorry, see my re-edited message on previous page.
TRUE or YES should be in caps, don't forget the dash...
any joy?
How do I turn off Safari Resume?
