Comments on: Firefox Start Page Trick

By: anon

anon — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:05:03 +0000

This last add-on was just what I was looking for. Thanks a heap.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:37:51 +0000

Rod, to get your start page to show in a new tab, install this:

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1122&application=firefox

Then do this:
Firefox Settings - Tabs - TabMix Plus settings - Events - Load at new tab: Start page

By: anon

anon — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 12:21:11 +0000

or you could just install the Sessionsaver extension which saves all the tabs you have opened and their history, after you have closed FF - its one of the best extensions along with Gestures, IMO.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:07:34 +0000

At first this seemed like a great trick, but then I realized that every time I hit the homepage button, all the tabs open up, which for me is somewhat annoying. I find it better to create a folder of bookmarks and then use the “Open in Tabs” feature to load them all. Then the homepage can still work as just a homepage.

By: Lefty

Lefty — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 03:20:53 +0000

If you go to Tools, Options, General Tab. Just click on Use Bookmark and pick a BookMark you have with all your favorite Tabs in. Then it places them in there for you and no typing.

By: Johnny Mash

Johnny Mash — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:35:48 +0000

Conversely, I felt the ‘Use Current Pages’ button under the Home Page heading was fairly self-explanitory, and was less of a trick, and more of a blatant feature. Thanks, anyway.

By: Caryn

Caryn — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 04:46:33 +0000

Oh, my God! That’s absolutely brilliant! Thanks for posting this. So glad Stumbleupon led me to it.

By: Rod

Rod — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 03:40:13 +0000

I have a related question… when using Firefox, & I am viewing a website, if I press CTRL + T (or click New Tab in the File menu), the new tab opens blank (Untitled)…

Is there a way to set it to always open a new tab with my home page loaded?

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By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:19:03 +0000

Jonathan, according to the statistics I found Firefox market share is at least 12% worldwide (http://www.e-janco.com/browser.htm) — and even higher in developed nations (16% US, 24% Australia, 39% Germany: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/11/firefox-surgest-to-15-market-share-in-us/).

Interestingly, since Dave posted this article, 89% of our visitors have been using Firefox, and just 9% IE.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:23:26 +0000

I think you’ll find that 15% is rather on the high side for most sites. More like about 7-8% in most cases.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:00:11 +0000

the other way is to open the tabs we want to be shown on startup and in the Tools/options/homepage click the USE CURRENT PAGES button.

Hope this could be useful, Ciao

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:25:43 +0000

In firefox, if you open the tabs you want to be your homepage, then go to tools, and click ’set current pages’ it does it for you. Much easier, I find. But I’m too lazy to type

By: c. Builder

c. Builder — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:19:28 +0000

Brilliant -I’d already done it in IE7, by adding links to the homepage logo dropdown menu on the toolbar - but thats great that we can do it in FF2 - its so much better

By: David Galt

David Galt — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 02:47:13 +0000

In addition to this… Just tried it in IE7 and it works as well, you don’t need the pipe symbol - simply hit return & then type in the next URL…