All browsers now a days boasting their browsers are secured and fixed several bugs. One major privacy issue still not fixed is restore previous session. This issue is not yet taken seriously by the browsers as this issue may cause a user to lose sensitive information.
Let us see an example on this
A Person goes to Cyber cafe opens Bank website and makes financial transactions all of a sudden due to incompatible flash plug-in in the webpage the browser crashes, the person shutdowns the computer and leaves cyber cafe thinking that last browser session will be closed and he is safe. Another person with evil mind walks into cyber cafe and opens the browser he finds restore previous session dialogue he continue to browse previous session what happens? he access all financial information of last person used ,you can know what can happen then!
That’s why we need to turnoff or disable this restore previous session feature on popularly used browsers such as Firefox and Internet Explorer 8.
Disable Firefox restore previous session feature in Firefox
Just open Firefox and type ‘about:config’ in address bar or awesome bar as we call it sometimes and press enter ,agree to warning “I’’ll be careful,I promise” and continue.
3.Type browser.sessionstore.resume_ from_crash double click it set it to false.
That’s it, Restore previous session feature is disabled in Firefox.
Disable restore previous session feature in Internet Explorer 8
IE restore previous session my own screenshot
1.Select start Run>type gpedit.msc
2.In the Group Policy Editor select Local computer configuration > administrative templates>Windows Components >Internet Explorer on right pane enable Turn off Reopen last Browsing Session and restart your computer
This works in Operating systems having Group policy editor only.
Article Posted by Venkat who is the author of Technically Inspired, a blog that provides articles on web, technology, windows tips, troubleshooting, solutions, software reviews, utilities, and downloads.
I just installed IE8 but there don’t appear to be a way of restoring sessions that I can with Firefox. I search around the web but cannot find the answer. I will stop using IE until I can switch the feature on. Suggestions would be greatly appreciated
I installed IE8 long back prompted by my default yahoo.com but there don’t appear to be a way of restoring sessions that I can with Firefox. I search around the web but cannot find the answer. I will stop using IE until I can switch the feature on. Suggestions would be greatly appreciated
Thanks a lot. that will help me a lot.