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On Lion, if I quit Safari using ⌘ Command+Q and then restart it, it reopens all tabs from last time.
In Preferences, I have set that new Windows open with an Empty Page, a setting that worked fine in Snow Leopard.
Is there a way to disable that nonsense? I can't seem to find a setting for this 🙁
It looks like the code to handle that was stripped out finally in May, 2011. It conflicted with the new way of drawing and it's not clear if we can influence the threshold in the same way.
It might be best to ask / file a bug against WebKit which drives Safari's rendering.
To me, the new code works so much better, I don't need the speedup or the control.
See http://www.ichemlabs.com/618 for details, but here is the nice chemical rendering that shows the differences between the old and new default behavior. Full size, it's impressive how much better the rendering is at the same (or better) rendering speed.
Quit it with ⌥⌘Q or run in the Terminal
defaults write com.apple.Safari NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false
Best Answer
This is a new feature in Mac OS X Lion. See here (Resume).
You can disable this in
System Preferences > Generaland untick the "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps, but will be system wide.Another solution is to hold ⌥ Option+⌘ Command+Q when quitting, the app will then not save the state.