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You are more likely to get help if you provided specifics.
Clarify: What is your Operating System? (Win10, Win7, Mac, etc).
Clarify: Does this happen only occasionally.
Clarify: Does it only happen after your computer crashes?
It's almost certainly NOT a virus or malware. They do "bad" things, not "annoying" things.
Best guess?
If you're running windows, then if Firefox is open, and your system crashes, when you start it back up, all that were open before the crash will try to restart by themselves, including FF.
If it happens every time you boot up your Windows, then FF might be set to auto-start.
"Best guess?
If you're running windows, then if Firefox is open, and your system crashes, when you start it back up, all that were open before the crash will try to restart by themselves, including FF."
LOL! Nope. I just had that happen, and the restart did not (nor should it) reopen programs running at the time of the Windows fart. Once Windows is again running and you restart ff, it will ask you about a restore session.
Just a WAG, but maybe a weather app that sits open on the desktop, but uses ff to gather the info?
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"Best guess?
If you're running windows, then if Firefox is open, and your system crashes, when you start it back up, all that were open before the crash will try to restart by themselves, including FF."
LOL! Nope. I just had that happen, and the restart did not (nor should it) reopen programs running at the time of the Windows fart. Once Windows is again running and you restart ff, it will ask you about a restore session.
Just a WAG, but maybe a weather app that sits open on the desktop, but uses ff to gather the info?
I find it odd that you laugh at and dismiss the statement as if its absurd, when in fact modern versions of Windows and macOS both do this, and have for quite some time.
And then you venture into totally unfounded speculation about weather apps opening Firefox to fetch data...
"Best guess?
If you're running windows, then if Firefox is open, and your system crashes, when you start it back up, all that were open before the crash will try to restart by themselves, including FF."
LOL! Nope. I just had that happen, and the restart did not (nor should it) reopen programs running at the time of the Windows fart. Once Windows is again running and you restart ff, it will ask you about a restore session.
Just a WAG, but maybe a weather app that sits open on the desktop, but uses ff to gather the info?
I had to force shutdown my laptop the other day. When I restarted it FF opened with all tabs.
I had to force shutdown my laptop the other day. When I restarted it FF opened with all tabs.
W10 Pro
Perhaps the differences are that mine is not Pro, and it committed suicide all on its own, while you assisted yours in its death throes?
Regardless of the OS, IMO an automatic restart after a crash - without the chance for user intervention to agree or disagree - seems brazen. What happens when there is a program that, upon automatic restart automatically crashes the OS again? Do we get an endless loop? It also seems a bit embarrassing for an OS to say, in effect, "Whoopsie, I crashed and burned for some reason I couldn't figure out at the time, but for your convenience, I'll put you right back where you were before the crash." That seems as cheeky or stupid as a passed-out drunk waking up and immediately resuming driving a car.
A browser WILL open previously opened tabs if set to do that.
A Mac may but Windows 7, 10 or whatever will not UNLESS you are hibernating it as on a laptop. A regular shutdown, re-start will not do that.
As for FF starting up automatically on a Windows machine it is either "waking up" from a hibernation or it set to "Auto Start" which is entirely possible but it doesn't happen all by itself, you have to set it to do that.
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