Hi all, Well here's a couple of other views about this! I hope you find them of use! Thanks to those who wrote them! [Not me! :] ]
I didn't really like either of the ideas that have been mentioned for preventing safari from reopening windows from the last session, so I went looking for something else. I didn't want to disable the feature system-wide, because it is still a very nice thing to have in other applications. And I don't want to get into a routine of pressing command+option+q, because I might instinctively press it in a different app where I want it to remember my windows. Anyway, I found an article on osxdaily.com that describes a terminal command line trick to disable the feature on a per-application basis. Just enter this in the terminal to keep safari from remembering your windows. defaults write com.apple.Safari NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false Here's a link to the full article. http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/01/turn-off-resume-per-app-in-mac-os-x-lion/ Hope someone finds this useful. I sure did. In addition to the global setting James mentioned, there is a way to quit individual applications without saving the current window state. Just add the Option key to your preferred method of closing the application. FOr me, I generally quit applications by pressing Command+Q, so I would press Command+Option+Q to quit Safari if I didn't want Safari to open with all my current windows next time I launch it. Interestingly, the addition of the Option key seems to act to toggle the behaviour of the current global setting. I have the global setting unchecked and if I want Safari to remember my current set of open windows, I can press Command+Option+Q to quit. Next time I launch Safari it will resume with my current set of open windows. Cheers, Bryan On 24 Nov 2011, at 04:13, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > I've not found it, so far anyway, although you can use the General pane under > System Preferences and uncheck the box that says to "Restore All Windows > after quitting or restarting applications" then tell Safari to re-open to the > last page in its preferences. That'll keep Safari behaving as you're > speaking of but forces all other apps to start without that behaviour. > > Later... > > On 2011-11-23, at 12:56 PM, Kevin Gibbs wrote: > >> is it possible to disable the feature that opens the last file you >> were working on in a specific application in Lion? Let's say you were >> working on a Pages document and you didn't want that document to be >> opened the next time someone else used your computer. while that >> facility is desirable in Safari at times, I wonder if it's something >> you can selectively disable from one app to the next. >> thanks, >> Kevin >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
