Use tabs as your home page in Firefox
K-ski writes,
"Is there a way that when you open Firefox you can have multiple pages open upon start-up of the program? In other words having multiple home pages?"
Why yes there is. And you can go about it a few ways. First, you can have it always show the tabs you had open last time that you exited Firefox.
Go to Tools, Options in Windows--or Preferences in Mac OS X.
In the main section, go to the drop-down menu "When Firefox Starts" and choose "Show my windows and tabs from last time."
Now every time you launch Firefox, it will give you all the tabs you had when you closed it.
But, if you want a defined set of tabs every time, no matter where you left off, you can do that, too. Thanks to Shameer for the easy tip on this.
First open up the tabs you want to use as your home page set.
Then, go to Preferences in OS X--tools, then options in Windows.
Change the drop-down menu to "Show my homepage."
And then press the button "Use Current Pages." You should see the URLs for all the pages you had open listed in the text box marked home page. Each URL is separated by a pipe symbol. That's the one that looks like this: | Handy to know if you want to make a quick edit to the list later.
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A cool addon I just discovered for Firefox is Prism. It allows you to create web app launchers, like those introduced by Chrome.
The rapid innovation in the browser space (e.g. with HTML5/Gears, O3D, Native Client, etc.) is just amazing these days! Perhaps Canonical should launch a version of Ubuntu, with only a browser installed, and let users build there own web app desktop, exactly the way they want it.
feel free to check out a rather new firefox extension called "New Tab King" (I saw it's rated #1 under "tabs" category in mozilla).
It displays a histogram of your most visited sites, recently closed tabs, related sites, desktop shortcuts, and gives you a Google search bar. This could be a suitable alternative to setting numerous homepages, which IMHO, is more confusing than assisting.
- Adam
It's a great feature.
-Jim
http://www.greatseducer.com/
The "trick" with that extension is to set the page title to not be dynamic, and to never refresh the page thumbnail. That way it loads very quickly, instead of trying to grab a live/current thumbnail for each page.
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by wiimonkey9
August 22, 2009 8:52 AM PDT
- I like to make positive comments, but this is just a stupid article. Who didn't know that you could have multiple tabs as your homepage? If you read any guide of firefox or just explored your options you should know that.
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by jolophi22
August 24, 2009 4:59 AM PDT
- Well, I do... But I'd rather use an add-on such as Speed Dial to do that, it's simpler and much more convenient...
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