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Multiple Homepages in Firefox

Multiple Homepage Windows in Firefox

I want to have Mozilla Firefox open two homepages at the same time when it starts up and I remember that I saw an extension that could do this. I did a search on Google and, to my surprise, came across this tip by Sam Holton:
To have multiple tabs loaded each time you start Firefox or when you press the home button, you can simply pipe delimit them in the options...if you wanted to open both Google and Digg when you open your browser, simply enter

http://www.google.com/ig | http://www.digg.com
http://thitiv.blogspot.com/2005/10/multiple-homepages-in-firefox.html
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Update: Nov 20, 05: jon114k gave us another tip in the comment of this post: we can in fact use Tools -> Options -> General -> Home Page -> Use current "pages" to create the multiple homepages! I just notice this plural form. I tried it and it works!

Comments

John said…
Thiti,

This is great!! Thanks for the heads-up.

John
2:38 AM
jon said…
or u can open the pages in different tabs, then click edit > preferences and click the button for "use current pages as homepage."

weirdly, the Eastwood movie "Firefox" just came on Tv... :)
3:17 AM
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