How to stop Safari reopen on last page

It wasn't a 'little snit', just stating the fact that ecotecit's suggestion had already been posted by Leroy at the beginning of the thread and it hadn't solved the problem for others.

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.

Hmmm... I have a slight variation on the situation. I have an MBA (13 inch, MId 2011) with Lion 10.7.1 (11B2118) running Safari version 5.1 (7534.48.3) and it doesn't exhibit the reopening of the last page issue. My MBP on the other hand (13-inch, early 2011) with Lion 10.7.1 (11B26) running the same version of Safari DOES exhibit this annoying issue. I applied to terminal-based solution and it has solved the problem. Regardless, wondering why one computer running the same OS and browser as the other would have the problem but the other won't.

Could the slightly different nomenclature around the OS version mean anything?

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.

I have no idea who at Apple thought this was a good idea but thank you markfalta for proving the info on how to make it stop.

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this is waht you are looking for

>Sys Pref>General> 'Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps' check box

You can also hold the option key when you use the Quit from the dropdown menu.

Credit To LeroyDouglas

You should probably read the entire thread - the option in prefs doesn't work for a lot of us.

I have found that the Terminal command works in some cases, the option-command-q when quitting Safari works in others, and going into System Prefrences-->General and unchecking the checkbox near the bottom that says 'Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps' works as well. If one didn't work, I tried another option, and if that didn't work, I'd try a third option. One of the three has worked everytime, and I've had to do this on multiple computers running Lion (OS X.7.2). It does seem odd that I have to use a different option on different machines, though.

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

FOLLOW THIS-

IF YOU UNCHECKBOX IN GENERAL IT WILL OVERALL DISABLE AWESOME FEATURE OF LION TO RESTORING BACK FILES LIKE ANY iOS DEVICES.

THERE IS A SIMPLE SOLUTION-

1. DOWNLOAD APP CALLED TINKER TOOL.(IT'S FREE)

2. OPEN THE APP AND GO TO "RESUME" MENU

3. CHANGE INDIVIDUAL APPS PREFERENCES FROM "SYSTEM DEFAULT" TO "YES" OR "NO"

4. IN THIS CASE SELECT SAFARI AND SET IT TO "NO"

BY THIS YOU DON'T NEED TO DISABLE RESTORE FEATURE ALL TOGETHER OR REMEMBER TO HOLD OPTION EVERYTIME WHILE YOU QUIT OR GET YOUR HANDS DIRTY WITH TERMINAL.

HOPE THIS HELPS 🙂