how do I set up tabs for gmail, facebook, and google when I open firefox?
I want to have three tabs available when I open firefox - gmail, facebook, and google (like I had with IE). how do I do this?
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You have two options (or add-ons may offer more possibilities):
(1) Assign all three as your home page. This is fairly easy, because you just have to open all three in the same window, then use the feature on the Options page to make the open tabs your home page. See:
However, your home page(s) also load each time you click the Home button or launch a new window, so that might not be what you want.
(2) Modify your Firefox shortcut to load specific pages. This is more work because you need to make a manual edit, but I'll lay out the general principle and you can give it a try.
First, open the shortcut as follows:
- Desktop shortcut: right-click the icon, choose Properties
- Pinned taskbar icon: right-click the icon, right-click Mozilla Firefox, choose Properties
Windows normally will select the Shortcut tab. If not, go ahead and click the Shortcut tab.
You'll see the Target highlighted. On 32-bit Windows, that usually is no more and no less than the following:
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"
To have the shortcut launch specific pages, you can add them to the end, for example (this would be all one line):
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -url "https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox" -url "https://www.facebook.com/" -url "https://www.google.com/"
After OK'ing the Properties dialog, you can test right away to confirm that Firefox now launches a window with those tabs. Either:
- double-click desktop shortcut
- right-click pinned taskbar icon, click Mozilla Firefox
Does that do what you want?
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Chosen Solution
You have two options (or add-ons may offer more possibilities):
(1) Assign all three as your home page. This is fairly easy, because you just have to open all three in the same window, then use the feature on the Options page to make the open tabs your home page. See:
However, your home page(s) also load each time you click the Home button or launch a new window, so that might not be what you want.
(2) Modify your Firefox shortcut to load specific pages. This is more work because you need to make a manual edit, but I'll lay out the general principle and you can give it a try.
First, open the shortcut as follows:
- Desktop shortcut: right-click the icon, choose Properties
- Pinned taskbar icon: right-click the icon, right-click Mozilla Firefox, choose Properties
Windows normally will select the Shortcut tab. If not, go ahead and click the Shortcut tab.
You'll see the Target highlighted. On 32-bit Windows, that usually is no more and no less than the following:
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"
To have the shortcut launch specific pages, you can add them to the end, for example (this would be all one line):
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -url "https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox" -url "https://www.facebook.com/" -url "https://www.google.com/"
After OK'ing the Properties dialog, you can test right away to confirm that Firefox now launches a window with those tabs. Either:
- double-click desktop shortcut
- right-click pinned taskbar icon, click Mozilla Firefox
Does that do what you want?
Thanks! I used option 2, and that's exactly the result I wanted.