It seems to have done the trick, cheers! I do get the ‘Your Firefox session has closed unexpectedly, do you want to recover it?’ screen, but I read earlier that Firefox on Linux indeed thinks it has crashed when it’s not closed the ‘proper’ way, which is by closing it from the menu. It doesn’t do this on Windows, which is really odd. But I should be able to just turn off that screen in about:config. Perfect.

I already had that turned on as I want to start with a completely new session everytime anyway.

Interesting idea. I’ll give that a shot soon.

That’s turned off, yes.

My first positive is first for a reason, indeed :)

Do you need Timeshift on an opensuse system? I haven’t used Leap, but had a Tumbleweed install for years which has Snapper pre installed.

To be honest, I just installed Timeshift because I first tried Mint and that had Timeshift pre-installed, so it’s the only program I knew for making backups.

The firefox thing seems just firefox behaviour to me. Does it not do that in Windows?

It really doesn’t. The first thing I’ve been doing is getting everything to behave as much like I’ve been used to on Windows, and this Firefox behavior is really sticking out like a sore thumb. But I’ll fix it at some point, hopefully.

Thanks for all the helpful information :)

Instability: there is almost zero chance of you being able to destroy your environment so bad that it would require a reinstall of the OS. Since it’s just flat files on a disk and no central registry like Windows, everything can be repaired quite simply, you just need to be familiar with how.

Yeah, but I spent half a day faffing about trying to see what I’d done wrong and searching online for hints. I suppose I didn’t literally ruin my installation, but I’d messed it up enough for me to not know how to fix it, so I gave up.

Firefox: ‘about:config’ has these settings

That’s the first thing you find online, pretty much. Changing settings in about:config doesn’t work (in this case), and I’ve followed instructions involving adding an autoconfig.cfg file to the Firefox installation folder, which also didn’t work. But yeah, like I said, I tried some things and have not been able to get Firefox to start a fresh session on startup, after shutting down the computer with it still open.

Thanks for the advice!

My sister hated me for it when I was ten, it gives me warm feelings :p

This is Winnie the Pooh-level censorship, Jesus…

I’m really glad there is Lemmy as an alternative, despite lots of Redditors not believing it is one.

He probably just saw some bird and he pointed at it surprised, or maybe it was a sudden rise in blood flow in his right arm leading to it stiffening. He could also have meant something entirely different with his strange gesture. While we can agree it was very odd, you can’t just accuse nazis right-wing politicians of doing the Hitler salute without strong evidence!