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I absolutely despise this trend of having software open stuff up automatically as if it's somehow helping. OS X is the biggest offender, for example; when Photo

I absolutely despise this trend of having software open stuff up automatically as if it's somehow helping. OS X is the biggest offender, for example; when Photoshop decides to just freak out opening a file, so you close photoshop, then reopen and it tries to reopen all your old files, including the one that's causing the problems. What sort of sadist wants 10 PSDs to open all at once? I miss the good old days when you could reboot your machine and everything was fresh and pristine and yours to mess up.

hesselink 14y ago
You can configure this on OS X. In the General preferences, there is an option 'Close windows when quitting an application'.
- tomelders 14y ago
  I know this now, but like most people, I learned the hard way. And for some reasons, Pages, Numbers and Keynote seem to ignore this setting and continue to open up every file they can get their grubby little mitts on with gay abandon.
- snowwrestler 14y ago
  I just looked--this is checked by default on my installation of Mountain Lion.
laurent123456 14y ago
In Chrome, this is optional, by default it just opens a blank tab. The user in the bug report chose the option "Continue where I left off".
- leoedin 14y ago
  I've never selected that option in Chrome, and yet when my computer restarts from Windows Updates it displays the behaviour mentioned in the bug report. When I start Chrome normally, I get a blank tab, but when my computer is forcibly restarted with Chrome running, it tries to take me back to where I was.
  - grimman 14y ago
    I'm just speculating here, but it might be playing nice with Windows, since Windows does have this habit of restarting at night on certain days (patch Tuesday, is it?). For those who leave their computers on at all times, it would be a terrible thing indeed to lose their active pages.
Sunlis 14y ago
Don't even get me started on what they did to Textedit. Apparently there's no such thing as saving anymore - it does it for you automatically. That one has bit me quite a few times...
negativity 14y ago
Yeah, totally. Not to mention that you basically can't leave your machine powered on and unattended anymore, lest the operating system decides to get frisky and update itself without asking first. And still worse are the times when you're right in the middle of something and the machine declares that it WILL reboot on you, and there's no two ways about it. You are on the way to destruction. You have no chance to survive make your time.

hesselink 14y ago

You can configure this on OS X. In the General preferences, there is an option 'Close windows when quitting an application'.

tomelders 14y ago
I know this now, but like most people, I learned the hard way. And for some reasons, Pages, Numbers and Keynote seem to ignore this setting and continue to open up every file they can get their grubby little mitts on with gay abandon.
snowwrestler 14y ago
I just looked--this is checked by default on my installation of Mountain Lion.

laurent123456 14y ago

In Chrome, this is optional, by default it just opens a blank tab. The user in the bug report chose the option "Continue where I left off".

leoedin 14y ago
I've never selected that option in Chrome, and yet when my computer restarts from Windows Updates it displays the behaviour mentioned in the bug report. When I start Chrome normally, I get a blank tab, but when my computer is forcibly restarted with Chrome running, it tries to take me back to where I was.
- grimman 14y ago
  I'm just speculating here, but it might be playing nice with Windows, since Windows does have this habit of restarting at night on certain days (patch Tuesday, is it?). For those who leave their computers on at all times, it would be a terrible thing indeed to lose their active pages.

Sunlis 14y ago

Don't even get me started on what they did to Textedit. Apparently there's no such thing as saving anymore - it does it for you automatically. That one has bit me quite a few times...

negativity 14y ago

Yeah, totally. Not to mention that you basically can't leave your machine powered on and unattended anymore, lest the operating system decides to get frisky and update itself without asking first. And still worse are the times when you're right in the middle of something and the machine declares that it WILL reboot on you, and there's no two ways about it. You are on the way to destruction. You have no chance to survive make your time.