How to stop Safari reopen on last page

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

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.

Hi,

I've tried the defaults write com.apple.Safari ApplePersistenceIgnoreState YES as suggested by various people and I get "Could not write domain /Users/userid/Library/Preferences/com.Apple.Safari.plist; exiting.

I tried resetting Safari, it came back with four windows open from a session the day before yesterday. Is it possible that somehow, file permissions have got messed up somehow.

If I go into System Preferences -> General, and take the tick out of "Restore Windows when quitting and re-opening apps", open Safari and then go back to System Preferences -> General, the tick is back in the box.

Since upgrading to Lion, some strange things have been happening with folders in my Movies and Documents folder. If I copied a file to one of these folders, it would not inherit the permissions of the folder. I had to change the permission of the file manually.

Thanks

Luca

The terminal way is the best one and as indicated above it can be applied to other apps as well. TextEdit for example is one of them and I guess other apps may follow suit. Be cautious though because in the case of TextEdit once you "accidentally" quit it all your text is lost. Reopening TE will only produce a blank page.

Whilst this is a solution it's far from elegant or indeed intuitive, two things that we expect from Apple. Moreover the problem effects mor than just Safari it also effects Preview, Microsoft Office, Photoshop (all of CS actually), Acrobat, etc, etc.

Are all Apple users really expected to muck around at the command line ?

It strikes me that things are going backwards !

I just upgraded to OS X Lion a couple of weeks ago and this problem of all windows opening that were last open when you shut the app down started after the upgrade. We shouldn't have to type commands in terminal or hold down certain keys when closing apps to make it work. The check box in General Prefs should be all that's needed, but as others have noted this seems to have no effect. The Windows open whether the box is checked or not. The command line appears to be required for every app... who wants to take the time to do that.

In general, I have been very disappointed with OS X Lion. It brings a bunch of behavior changes that seem to reduce usability, takes longer to boot up, has lots of freezes (especially Safari), and is generally buggy.

Several people have asked whether OS X Lion is Apple's Vista. I'm starting to think so. I'm seriously considering downgrading my computer to OSX Snow Leopard (which I was very happy with). This means backing up all my data, restoring OSX Leopard from the disks and then reloading my data and reinstalling apps that I installed after I got my computer. This is a lot of work but I'm so frustrated that it might be worth it.

I can't offer any help on this puzzling topic, but I just don't have the problem. Whenever I open Safari, it opens to my Home Page as defined in Safari>Preferences>General>New windows Opens With....

I also have the 'Restore windows when quitting....' unchecked.

Very strange, this issue.

Thanks. That did the trick. I've been annoyed with this behavior since I upgraded to Lion and searched in vain in Safari Preferences -- where there should have been an option in the first place. Sometimes I have a dozen tabs open in Safari and don't want them all to reappear the next time I open. I'm a big OS X fan in general but I must confess that this one left me wondering what Apple was thinking.

Thanks for all of the advice everyone, but none of it is working for me.

On my MBPro: for about a month, everytime I open up Safari, this one website that I was on keeps opening. Safari doesn't load the last page that I was on, say the same day or the day before, but the one from a month ago. It doesn't matter how I close it, or if I restart my computer. I've even gone through 2 Safari updates since I first had the problem.

Is there a way to completely reset the settings in Safari so it just forgets where it's been?

Thanks

Thank you. Alt-command Q worked for me. I no longer have this problem and didn't have to go to terminal to do it. I agree, I should not have to reprogram my computer to make Safari work without opening old windows I no longer want to have open. To me this is the best answer for the problem.

I've tried everythign sugested in these posts.

Going onto terminal just comes up with "command not found"

I have unchecked the box and still every time i open safari it open up whatever was open when i closed it

TThis key combination saved me. I was getting horrible pop ups from "MAC Support Hotline 888-546-2813" which completely disabled Safari. (I am on El Capitan.). I couldn't even get to Safari preferences to change the behavior on Safari start up.

Thanks!

This is a really poorly thought out feature. I do not want this, I can't turn it off, and I bet I can't get a refund and go back to Snow Leopard, can I?