How do I turn off Safari resume "feature"?

Yes I hate this feature too!! there must be a way of turning this off!

System Preferences > General > Restore windows when quitting and reopening apps

This works perfecty, Only wish we could choose aps to reopen rather then have it apply globaly.

you can by doing 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, Markfalta, hat fixed it!

Thanks Markfalta.

Terminal has become my most used app since upgrading to Lion, "fixing" all the little things that Apple has "improved".

Another way to do this, on a single instance basis, is to do the following:

When quitting Safari, click on Safari on the menu bar, when the scroll window opens press the options key and Quit changes to Quit and Discard Windows. While continuing to hold down the options key click on Quit and Discard Windows. When Safari opens the next time it will open to your designated home page.

I guess I need to finally learn how to use Terminal. Way back in the bad old days (before I switched to Mac) I was pretty handy at writing for PCs - you had to. Of course, this was back in the 90s, so I've forgotten more than I knew! Where is the best (read: easiest) place to learn how to use Terminal?

Hi same problem here. Went to Aplenty store And a store rep Said to use private browsing. Seems like there must be a better way without turning off this feature in system references?

What was apple thinking? Wish apple had a detailed video on his to deal with this and for lion.

So what's the best way to do this?

A quick solution seems to be... just make sure close the browser window before quitting the Safari applicaion.

When you next launch Safari the browser window will show whatever you have as your "New Windows Open With" setting in the Safari Preferences.

You can use a Terminal command to stop this on any specific App.

http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/how_tame_six_os_x_lion’s_early_problems

The last tip in that article has it:

"By default, OS X Lion now attempts to get you back to work sooner by opening the files you were last viewing upon launch. While it’s a nice feature for many apps, there may be cases where you don’t want prying eyes to see what you were last viewing. The System Preferences > General tab has an option for getting rid of the feature entirely (simply uncheck “Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps”), but there’s a better way to handle it on an app-by-app basis, courtesy of developer Wil Shipley.

First you’ll need to know exactly which app you want to kill this feature on -- we’ll use Preview as an example, since it may not be desirable to have it restore documents in most cases. Fire up Terminal again and use the following command without quotes: “defaults write com.apple.Preview NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -int 0”. For other applications, simply replace “Preview” with the name of the app -- when in doubt, visit your Preferences folder to confirm how the app name appears in the “com.apple.XXXX” file this is modifying."

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To see the exact way an App name appears, make sure the Finder is selected so the Finder menu appears, then up left near the Apple logo on the desktop bar click Go To, then Go To Folder, and type in ~/Library. Then in the window that opens, click on Preferences. You'll see a list of files, don't click on any. Just scroll down to the com.apple.XXXX area to see how the app you want to change appears. In this case, Safari is what one would expect, Safari with a capitol S.

So the command to type or copy and paste into Terminal is:

defaults write com.apple.Safari NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -int 0

Then hit enter.

Close and restart Safari, next time you restart the computer Safari (or whatever other App(s) you ran that on) should not resume automatically from the last saved state.