Safari 5.1 opens last website on launching.

[seattle29]

How can I turn this feature off? I want Safari to open my homepage every time I launch it, but since upgrading to Lion (and Safari 5.1), then launching Safari opens the last-visited page before closing.

I can't find the option anywhere in preferences??

 

[sniffies]

 

[seattle29]

Thanks!

 

[drhankz]

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What do you SUGGEST when that does not work.

My Safari 5.1 with LION still opens that last page instead of home page

 

[unobtainium]

What do you SUGGEST when that does not work.

My Safari 5.1 with LION still opens that last page instead of home page

I disabled Resume almost immediately, but I've noticed some apps still seem to be "resuming." I can't remember if they always did this! iPhoto is an example. It always opens up to the album I had selected before quitting. Is this the normal pre-Lion behaviour?

 

[drhankz]

I disabled Resume almost immediately,

What Resume are you referring to?

 

[AdeFowler]

What do you SUGGEST when that does not work.
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Don't quit Safari?

 

[drhankz]

Don't quit Safari?

Hare to do when you shut down Computer

 

[adztaylor]

What do you SUGGEST when that does not work.

My Safari 5.1 with LION still opens that last page instead of home page

The only other option I can give you is to press cmd-option-q when quitting Safari or any other app you don't want to "resume"

 

[unobtainium]

What Resume are you referring to?

Settings > General > Restore settings when quitting and re-opening apps.

I have it unchecked but some apps still seem to "resume" (iPhoto is the only one I can replicate it on every time). But I can't remember if iPhoto always did that...

 

[drhankz]

Settings > General > Restore settings when quitting and re-opening apps.

I have it unchecked but some apps still seem to "resume" (iPhoto is the only one I can replicate it on every time). But I can't remember if iPhoto always did that...

I just tried that - it does now work either

 

[drhankz]

Settings > General > Restore settings when quitting and re-opening apps.

I have it unchecked but some apps still seem to "resume" (iPhoto is the only one I can replicate it on every time). But I can't remember if iPhoto always did that...

I do not see a RESUME - I see a Restore - as you can SEE I have it uncheccked

 

[drhankz]

Settings > General > Restore settings when quitting and re-opening apps.

I have it unchecked but some apps still seem to "resume" (iPhoto is the only one I can replicate it on every time). But I can't remember if iPhoto always did that...

I may have found the SECRET setting - I changed the drop menu on APPLICATIONS to NONE --- See
Now it seem to work and open to Home Page

 

[AdeFowler]

I'm not using Lion or Safari 5.1 yet, but on the Safari Features page it says:

When you launch Safari in Lion or restart your Mac, Safari automatically restores the open windows and tabs from your last browsing session, so you can continue right where you left off. In Snow Leopard and Windows, you can choose to have Safari automatically restore your windows and tabs in the General pane of Safari preferences. When you use Resume, Safari won’t restore web pages viewed when Private Browsing is on.

Also, holding down the shift key whilst launching an app overrides resume.

 

[drhankz]

I'm not using Lion or Safari 5.1 yet, but on the Safari Features page it says:

When you launch Safari in Lion or restart your Mac, Safari automatically restores the open windows and tabs from your last browsing session, so you can continue right where you left off. In Snow Leopard and Windows, you can choose to have Safari automatically restore your windows and tabs in the General pane of Safari preferences. When you use Resume, Safari won’t restore web pages viewed when Private Browsing is on.

Also, holding down the shift key whilst launching an app overrides resume.

I am using LION and Safari 5.1 - this only happened after I upgraded
yesterday to LION.

ALL IS FIXED NOW - I POSTED the SECRET

 

[Eminemdrdre00]

Can someone please upload Safari for Lion? I deleted it with App Cleaner thinking I could download a new copy from Apple.com, but they only offer Safari for Snow Leopard. There's a stupid bug that followed me from Snow Leopard to Lion, and I thought deleting Safari and reinstalling it might fix it.

 

[bernwa]

doesn't work

I've tried all these solutions and my browser still goes to the last page I was on. This is especially irritating when doing web design and preview pages in Dreamweaver. Has anyone found a sure way to address this problem?
Thanks!

 

[dcorban]

I disabled Resume almost immediately, but I've noticed some apps still seem to be "resuming." I can't remember if they always did this! iPhoto is an example. It always opens up to the album I had selected before quitting. Is this the normal pre-Lion behaviour?

Yes. My previous iPhoto 09 in Snow Leopard had this behaviour.

 

[PKGuy323]

I may have found the SECRET setting - I changed the drop menu on APPLICATIONS to NONE --- See
Now it seem to work and open to Home Page

Nothing else worked...except for this! Thanks for the tip. It was very frustrating prior.

 

[drhankz]

Nothing else worked...except for this! Thanks for the tip. It was very frustrating prior.

That is WHY I posted my find.

I tried all the other things as well and none of them worked.

I just finished rolling back to SNOW LEOPARD

Goodbye to LION

 

[RickyB]

Can someone please upload Safari for Lion? I deleted it with App Cleaner thinking I could download a new copy from Apple.com, but they only offer Safari for Snow Leopard. There's a stupid bug that followed me from Snow Leopard to Lion, and I thought deleting Safari and reinstalling it might fix it.

Try installing Safari for SL and then use Software Update to update it.

 

[diesel345]

I may have found the SECRET setting - I changed the drop menu on APPLICATIONS to NONE --- See
Now it seem to work and open to Home Page

This seems to have worked for me as well. Thx, Dr. Hankz!!

 

[drhankz]

This seems to have worked for me as well. Thx, Dr. Hankz!!

Everyone thinks the check mark alone is enough.
Not for me - I needed to disable Application memory.

You are WELCOME.

 

[declandio]

This feature annoyed me too.

I found the following solution, you can use it to disable this behaviour for any application you like. If you want to turn it back on again, change the '0' in the command below to a '1'.

Can't remember where I found the hint, but I think it was on macoshints website.

"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."

 

[drhankz]

This feature annoyed me too.

I found the following solution, you can use it to disable this behaviour for any application you like. If you want to turn it back on again, change the '0' in the command below to a '1'.

Can't remember where I found the hint, but I think it was on macoshints website.

"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."

Thanks for that info - that is going into my LION OS Reference File - I'll save that one