Mozilla Firefox - Multiple Homepage Tabs

[tomski]

hi all,
im not to sure if this is well known but i discovered this by pure accident it also works under windows firefox too :

in options/preferences goto:
general
then in the line where you add the url for your home page add | after and add another url thus

http://www.ubuntuforums.org|http://www.google.com|http://www.opennet.ru/soft/cisco-configuration.html

do not put spaces between the site name and pipe.
this will open each site in a seperate tab!
im not sure if there is a limit on how many but i have 6 set in mine so experiment with it:smile:

[davmac]

Superb. Thank you SO much for sharing that one! And pressing alt-home at any time brings 'em all back up again.

Dave Mac

[tomski]

thats ok

bt say "its good to talk"

well tux says "its better to share!!"

i could not believe it when it happend because i was at work and pissed off and i just went a bit bezerk and started hitting the keyboard!!!???
and hey presto

[sandrinux]

hi all,
im not to sure if this is well known but i discovered this by pure accident it also works under windows firefox too :

in options/preferences goto:
general
then in the line where you add the url for your home page add | after and add another url thus

http://www.ubuntuforums.org|http://www.google.com|http://www.opennet.ru/soft/cisco-configuration.html

do not put spaces between the site name and pipe.
this will open each site in a seperate tab!
im not sure if there is a limit on how many but i have 6 set in mine so experiment with it:smile:


It works under Windows too !!

[tomski]

i was using windows when i discoverd it which i thought was very bizzarre because windows does not use the pipe does it???

[Wandering Wombat]

I had found this out ages ago by accident as well lol, except how I found it out was by having say 4 tabs open, then remembering i had to get around to setting my homepage finally. I forgot to close the uneeded tabs and just went to set the homepage in preferences (use current page), when I did it and went back to my homepage by clicking the little house, 4 bloody pages opened in tabs lol. It did exactly what you said automatically. Good on you for letting others know.;)

[Jujimufu]

This rocks! Nice tip bro.

[pelago]

Nice tip. You can also do this without having to type by opening several tabs to the sites you want, going into Firefox options, then clicking Use Current Pages in the General section.

[baraider]

Nice tip. You can also do this without having to type by opening several tabs to the sites you want, going into Firefox options, then clicking Use Current Pages in the General section.

Nice tip....so it does open several taps with different sites when you click on Firefox

Here is my question....

If i want to open a new tap, Ctrl-T will do it but the new tab will be blank...is there anyway that a new tap will be opened to a certain site, not blank?

[tomski]

If i want to open a new tap, Ctrl-T will do it but the new tab will be blank...is there anyway that a new tap will be opened to a certain site, not blank?


dont think so the only way you can do this is id you right clik a link on a open page and select open in new tab

[bierpullen]

This is great !!!
Works !!!! :)


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[Cl1mh4224rd]

i was using windows when i discoverd it which i thought was very bizzarre because windows does not use the pipe does it???
This is totally different than pipes on Linux. Here the pipe is just used by Firefox as a delimiter to separate the URLs when it checks that preference. It doesn't have anything to do with the OS.

[mcwtlg]

Nice to know, but I think it would get on my nerves. I had Multilla installed once that did this and I could never get it to quit. I was hoping this thread was going to answer the riddle :confused: .

Seriously, I just removed Mozilla and switched to FF on my Windows box. Much faster than trying to figure it out!

[tomski]

Nice to know, but I think it would get on my nerves. I had Multilla installed once that did this and I could never get it to quit. I was hoping this thread was going to answer the riddle :confused: .

Seriously, I just removed Mozilla and switched to FF on my Windows box. Much faster than trying to figure it out!


even when you edited the url in preferences>general>home page

i found it very handy as i all ways visit the same sites first so rather than googleing them they are there

as far as mutilla well i never used that and this thread does mention mozilla firefox

firefox is all about control,
most people dont even know about the about::config registry

[N8K99]

You can also set multiple tabs in a bookmarks folder and open the entire folder of bookmars in tabs. So you can have a set of site that act as your home page, then another set of sites which are useful for another function for example, I have a del.icio.us folder which gives me my personal page in del.icio.us, my inbox, daily mashup, most recent popular sites, and livemarks. Firefox is really quite powerful and independent of platform. It has the same behavior on my Mac OS X and on my Ubuntu box; and as long as I have the same extensions installed, it is exactly the same.

[tomski]

in my previous post i mentioned the about:config registry

well here is a guide for that :

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_About:config_Entries

happy reading & tweaking

[Sionide]

This is so damn useful. I love threads like these on this forum - it's what it's all about! Thanks very much..

[pwaring]

i was using windows when i discoverd it which i thought was very bizzarre because windows does not use the pipe does it???

The '|' symbol can mean 'or' as well as the pipe command.

[bestjobm]

Good post. Thanks...

[fooman]

Good post. Thanks...

yeah....an oldie, but a goodie! :)

thanks