10.7: Remove Safari session auto-restore
This hint describes how to not restore your previous browsing session after force-quitting Safari in Lion. I disabled System Preferences » General » Restore windows... almost immediately after I discovered that Lion wants to automatically restore reopened applications to their previous state. Today while browsing with Safari I encountered one of those 'YOU WIN' sites that had a popup where the popup window lacks any controls except an 'Okay' button. That window held exclusive focus for Safari. Oh, and no red 'Close this window' button at the top-left either. The only intended way past this window was to click the Okay button. Very annoying, and I refuse to trust these sites since you don't really know what JavaScript or other code lurks beneath that Okay button. Note that you can't even view the page source since the popup has exclusive focus for the application. So I did a force-quit on Safari as I've always done pre-Lion. When I res ...
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