Opening multiple webpage tabs on Firefox startup
Here is how to open multiple websites (tabular form) automatically when Firefox starts up. I think it is pretty useful.
Procedure:
1. Start Firefox and click on Tools menu and then choose Options.
2. Click on the General tab.
3. Click on the text box in front of the Homepage – Location(s) group. (screenshot)
[CLICK HERE TO VIEW SCREENSHOT] {opens in new window}
4. Type the address of the webpage you want to load when Firefox startups. To enter multiple webpages, seperate them using the vertical bar | (SHIFT+\) Add as many webpages as you want.
EXAMPLE: To open Google.com and Gmail.com on startup, type:
www.google.com | www.gmail.com
(see screenshot)
Alternative (Better):
Load all the favourite pages in seperate tabs. Then choose:
Tools> Options> General Tab> Homepage – Locations(s) > Use Current Page
Using this, Firefox will load all the current open pages on startup.
UPDATED (Thanks to Aqeel):
You can also use SessionSaver, a Firefox extension that takes care of a lot of other things also. Highly recommended.
Or you can always use Firefox’s SessionSaver extension, just close firefox with all the tabs open and next time you start firefox restores all tabs. Its nice to resume your browsing where you left it. I don’t remember when was the last time I visited my homepage
Give it a try!
Aqeel
February 13, 2006 at 8:30 am
Yup. It is good. I will update the post.
sukhbirsingh
February 13, 2006 at 10:52 am
Aqeel,
Post has been updated.
Thank you.
sukhbirsingh
February 13, 2006 at 1:20 pm
good write up
i like opera for this particular feature only..the integrated session resume tool..nice to know that firefox also has this feature
arun
February 13, 2006 at 2:30 pm
Another reason to use Opera will be that Secunia has rated it even more secure than Firefox.
sukhbirsingh
February 13, 2006 at 3:01 pm
Cool thing.
Falak
February 13, 2006 at 10:39 pm
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CypherHackz.Net
June 7, 2006 at 9:08 pm
@CypherHackz.Net:
Read the part ‘Alternative’ again. If that doesn’t answer your question, post it again.
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June 8, 2006 at 1:54 am
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July 2, 2007 at 9:48 am
Wow — i’m way late to the show, seeing it’s now March 2008, but this tip is exactly what I wanted to know how to do! Thank you for having posted this way back in 06!
quicksite
April 1, 2008 at 4:40 am
I have multiple tabs open and I opened a new tab to a new url. But this page caused Firefox to freeze (100%cpu). I killled firefox through the task manager on WinXP. Now whenever I start Firefox, because I have the preferences set to automatically launch all tabs that were open when Firefox was last running, the browser will freeze every time it starts. I do not want to loose the other tabs I had open. Is there a way to remove the bad url from my tabs through registery or some file on the file system without launching Firefox? This way I can launch Firefox and get my other tabs to open without openening the one that causes Firefox to freeze. Thanks!
sporty
June 4, 2008 at 6:03 am
nevermind, I found the solution. The file is called sessionstore.js. I edited this file and removed the offending url (it appeared twice). Now I can load Firefox and my other tabs open just fine.
sporty
June 4, 2008 at 6:09 am
Thx for the tip, it’s extremely useful! I was searching for something like that for quite some time…
nimini
July 19, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Gorgeous, thank you. It looks like the new standard is pipe-delimited lists of URLs in the default page. Note that even if you set this, you still have to select “Use my homepage”; if it’s set to “Blank page” or something else, your settings will be overridden.
Joshua McGee
June 8, 2009 at 8:06 am