{"id":4477,"date":"2009-05-28T13:20:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T13:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/?p=4477"},"modified":"2009-09-11T04:10:24","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T04:10:24","slug":"disable-restore-previous-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/disable-restore-previous-session\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Disable Restore Previous session feature in firefox and IE8"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

Let us see an example on this<\/p>\n

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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!<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why we need to turnoff or disable this restore previous session feature on popularly used browsers such as Firefox and Internet Explorer 8.<\/p>\n

Disable Firefox restore previous session feature in Firefox<\/p>\n

\"Restore<\/p>\n

Just open Firefox and type ‘about:config’ in address bar or awesome bar as we call it sometimes and press enter ,agree to warning \u201cI\u2019\u2019ll be careful,I promise\u201d and continue.<\/p>\n

3.Type browser.sessionstore.resume_ from_crash double click it set it to false.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s it, Restore previous session feature is disabled in Firefox.<\/p>\n

Disable restore previous session feature in Internet Explorer 8<\/p>\n

\"Internet<\/p>\n

IE restore previous session my own screenshot<\/p>\n

1.Select start Run>type gpedit.msc<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

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This works in Operating systems having Group policy editor only.<\/p>\n

Article Posted by Venkat who is the author of Technically Inspired<\/a>, a blog that provides articles on web, technology, windows tips, troubleshooting, solutions, software reviews, utilities, and downloads.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":19179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[228],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-how-to","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t