[ubuntu-za] Firefox status

[Bill Cairns]

Forgive me - I know there are better forums (fora?) for this question
but it is more of a comment that a question perhaps.

One of the things that I love about my Ubuntu system (I am not sure if
it is a Linux feature or a Gnome feature) is the way that I can say
"Preserve desktop status" and, after, turning the machine off and coming
back a week later, I am presented with the desktop exactly as I left it.
Well nearly, because Firefox insists that it can't do it and I have to
agree that it should close before my machine will shut down.

But the trouble is that Firefox does do it and does it brilliantly -
even under Windows (which I ashamedly admit that I still run for work
purposes). As soon as I re-boot and initiate Firefox it asks me do I
want to recover the previous session and then it recovers it perfectly.

How can I convince my system that I know perfectly well that some
applications are not set up to survive a re-boot (even if Firefox is not
one of them, Lyx is) and that it does not need to ask me a redundant
question every day?

Bill