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How to set start up tabs different from home tab

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I use Firefox as my "work" browser. I really want to keep the home tab to just be my mail client, but open mail and a few other tabs on start up.

Currently I have them all as my "home " tab, so when I reflexively click the home button to get to mail, it opens a bunch of other tabs I already have open.

Is there a way (a la chrome) to make start up tabs different from the home tab?

I use Firefox as my "work" browser. I really want to keep the home tab to just be my mail client, but open mail and a few other tabs on start up. Currently I have them all as my "home " tab, so when I reflexively click the home button to get to mail, it opens a bunch of other tabs I already have open. Is there a way (a la chrome) to make start up tabs different from the home tab?

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Hello archer221b,

You have these options at startup :

  1. a blank page,
  2. your homepage,
  3. the last visited page,
  4. resume previous browser session.

To set the page you want, you can do this :

Type in the address bar about:config and press Enter (promise to be careful, if asked)

Type in the search bar and look for the preference :

browser.startup.page

and choose one of these values :

0 = blank, 1 = homepage, 2 = last visited page, 3 = resume previous browser session.

Then close and restart Firefox.

I hope this will do what you want (or at least come close .... )

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One workaround on Windows is to modify the shortcut you use to start Firefox with the URLs you want launched when you use that shortcut. I don't know if there is a similar thing you can do on Mac, but for reference, these threads have the details: