Fun fact 3: in 2020 Logging out of GNOME/KDE/XFCE and others doesn't gracefully shutdown Firefox. It just crashes it so that any time you log out or reboot, the next time you start firefox you will get a warning that your browser crashed and it will attempt to recover the previous session.
Recently, after many, many years, Firefox finally addressed this, not by fixing the problem, but by making the Linux version of Firefox not show a warning message after a crash (it still crashes though). This has the effect of making it impossible to configure Firefox not to remember your tabs. The option is there, but it doesn't work unless you close Firefox before logging out every time. Genius.
@animeirl Last time that happened to me (two or three weeks ago), FF remembered my tabs and offered me to recover the previous session.
@josemanuel I don't think you read my post completely? That's exactly what's not supposed to happen. Logging out should not crash your web browser lmao
@animeirl I didn't log out. Someone switched off the computer. The thing is, I think FF did the right thing, that is, remember my session.
In my opinion, what is wrong is to log out without manually closing all your programs. Why should your DE make assumptions on the contrary? I don't get it.
@josemanuel This sounds like a bad troll, but if you're for real then this mentality is a fantastic example why Linux isn't a mainstream OS. Demanding the user manually close every open program before they click shutdown to avoid the OS hard-crashing all their work is some of the most insanely boneheaded shit I've heard in awhile.
@josemanuel Sorry, but your assertion is just ridiculous, thats why I assumed it was a troll. If I configure both my browser and my desktop environment not to remember my previous session, it should not remember my previous session. It's a pretty basic tenet of interaction design that options are supposed to more or less do what they say they do, as opposed to the complete opposite.