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Stop Firefox from starting on boot - Mac

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Dan
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What is causing Firefox to start every time I reboot my mac. I checked and Firefox is NOT in the login items for my user id, and Open At Login is NOT checked in the dock icon.

Thoughts?

What is causing Firefox to start every time I reboot my mac. I checked and Firefox is NOT in the login items for my user id, and Open At Login is NOT checked in the dock icon. Thoughts?

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cor-el
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Did you check the "Reopen windows when logging back in" setting?

See also https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3193281

Dan
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Nope, Firefox was not even open

cor-el
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Did you try to remove the mentioned plist file(s)?

Dan
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And just which plist file is that. The thread has over 9 pages of replies with all kinds of "remove this plist"

Dan
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Any other thoughts

Dan
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Would this have anything to do with why it would try and autostart?

6/20/13 1:43:08.972 PM WindowServer[89]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Firefox" after 3.48 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)

James
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Let's not have two threads on the same subject please.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/961315