How to stop Safari reopen on last page

Thanks markfalta... this works.

I found that I had to do the same with Terminal, and I'm sure there are others...

defaults write com.apple.Terminal ApplePersistenceIgnoreState YES

How would my Granmother do this?

Apple there has to be an easier way

System Preferences > General

Uncheck the "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps."

Job done!

Have you actually read this thread? Presumably not as you would have seen the 2nd post from leroy suggesting that. It didn't work.

Awesome it works-

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.

alt(option)-command-Q quits program and all windows within it.... Snowleopard it was just command-q... but in lion command-Q just quits the program it does not discard all windows within the program.. it will take a while to get used to but its just one extra button.

I am totally confused by this thread. I have my Safari set to open my home page with a new window. So, no matter what the last viewed page was, whenever I close Safari (either by red button or cmd-q) it always re-opens with my home page, not the previously viewed page. I also have the 'restore windows....' option unchecked.

I can't replicate the issue you guys are having at all.

This actually works.. Thanks for your support..

Lion have few features which are Good and few Which are not needed. I wish they could give us 'users' some option to disable these useless features.

Thanks for your support anyway

Well! Apple wants to be unique and different in this ever changing world. We wanted it and they gave us "AAARRRhh Lion - completely cocked up for £20"

System Preferences > General

Uncheck the "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps."

Job done!

Nope. That doesn't do the job. Sorry.

I have that setting unchecked, and I get the same kind of behavior for Terminal and Finder that the original author of this thread had with Safari.

And Option-Command-Q is not a reasonable solution, IMHO. We shouldn't have to use a non-standard sequence to close our apps, just to cause them the run the way they used to run in Snow Leopard, Leopard, Tiger, etc., without any three-fingered closing techniques.

I just performed the uncheck procedure and it appears to have solved the problem with both Safari and Preview. I quit and relaunched and neither application reopened the last window(s).

Agreed that this is a *stupid* feature. For example, I upgraded Office 2011 for Mac, and after the whole install, restart procedure when I relaunched Safari, the Office download page was the last page visited -- so it started downloading a huge file that I did not need a second time.

"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." -- Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park

Not everyone is exposed to the bug, obviously.

I wouldn't call it a stupid feature at all (I have no use for it personally), but I strongly disagree with making it the DEFAULT behavior. Very bad.

By the same token I should not have to uncheck the "Reopen windows when logging back in" box every **** time I shut down or reboot. Again, this shouldn't be the DEFAULT behavior. I find it hard to believe that MOST people would want all their apps relaunching after a restart.

Just done this Option-Command-Q and Safari miraculously now opens with the designated homepage. I've only had to do this once as Command-Q now opens the designated homepage as well. Figure that out! Thanks for the tips

Fortunately I ignored your little snit and took ecotecit's advice, and it worked.

Thanks ecotecit, it apparently doesn't work for some, but does work for others.

ecottecit: thanks that worked.