510241 - Have a commandline argument to start a new session

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Session Restore, enhancement)

Description

[Jez]

When your computer crashes, you tend to get a dialog pop up when you next start firefox asking whether you want to restore the old session or start a new session.  I think there should be a commandline argument for Firefox for you to tell it to start as if you had clicked 'start new session'.  This is useful for if a 'shock site' has been loaded, and you don't want it to load when you next run Firefox - run from a clean slate.

Comment 1

[Simon Bünzli]

You can just delete the offending sessionstore.js containing the session you don't want to restore, so I don't think a command line argument is needed for this at all.

Comment 2

[Jez]

No, but it's desirable.  The user shouldn't have to go into the filesystem ideally.

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

We have selective restoration now, which is a better solution than a coarse commandline option.  If you want to create a shortcut, you can simply have a script that nukes sessionstore.js, but that really doesn't seem like a common enough use case that we should take code to support it.