Firefox Start Page Trick
Posted on November 27th, 2006 by David GaltToday I learnt a great little tip about using Firefox, if you’re like me you probably want to do multiple things each time you open your browser. I still think tabbed browsing is a fantastic enhancement and really speeds up doing things online. As a side note, Firefox (& Mozilla) now have a 15% marketshare of all browsers.
Back to my tip… Firefox has a great feature where you can set multiple home pages to open in individual tabs. So you could login to your gmail, sales stats and have your favourite blogs loading in the back-ground.
Here’s how you do it…
Click on ‘Tools’ and then ‘Options’ - you’ll see this screen.
In the ‘Home Page’ field you should enter the URL’s you want to open in NEW tabs when you click on “Home”
For example: http://www.google.com/%7Chttp://blog.eightblack.com/ - the key is to use the ‘|’ pipe symbol between the URL’s.
Click ‘Ok’ and you’re done - happy browsing 
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November 27th, 2006 at 1:47 pm
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…
November 28th, 2006 at 7:19 am
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
November 29th, 2006 at 4:25 am
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
November 29th, 2006 at 6:00 am
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
November 30th, 2006 at 3:23 am
I think you’ll find that 15% is rather on the high side for most sites. More like about 7-8% in most cases.
December 5th, 2006 at 11:19 am
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.
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December 15th, 2006 at 2:40 pm
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?
December 17th, 2006 at 3:46 pm
Oh, my God! That’s absolutely brilliant! Thanks for posting this. So glad Stumbleupon led me to it.
December 19th, 2006 at 8:35 am
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.
December 19th, 2006 at 2:20 pm
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.
December 21st, 2006 at 11:07 am
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.
December 24th, 2006 at 11:21 pm
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.
August 11th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
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
July 15th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
This last add-on was just what I was looking for. Thanks a heap.