On start of FF3.6 I use a pipe (|)-separated list of URLs to open 5 URLs in tabs. Worked fine with FF3.5, but now I only get the first and the second startpage. Any idea how to fix it?
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Isn't it easier to open the tabs you want to start with, then go to Options->Main->Startup and click "Use Current Pages"? The only reason I can see not to is if you don't want them to all open every time you hit the home button. If that is the case, there are several options
1. If you use Toolbar Buttons, use the Favourite Page button and set it to your normal home page.
2. Install the Morning Coffee extension. Leave your home page the one you like, and set Morning Coffee to open the 5 URLs that you want, first time every day (and whenever you hit the button, or schedule it.)
3. Save the pages as a Session (with Toolbar Buttons or another extension) and set the session to load on startup.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks for your tips, you are absolutely right. I know all the other possibilities, but I was not interested in a work-around.
is that there should be no need to use Morning Coffee or any other external program.
FF 3.5.x *correctly* opened all tabs that had been marked as home pages with "Use Current Pages". (I don't remember when that feature was implemented but it has always worked correctly.)
FF 3.6 only opens the first tab in the list, even though the Options dialog clearly shows that all the urls were saved in the home page field. This is broken. The Morning Coffee idea is a nice workaround but this is an egregious bug that needs to be fixed.
With all due respect, the "why bother?" response bothers me. If we never fixed anything that was broken, because we had a workaround for it, then software would be an unusable and unstable patchwork jungle. I hope developers don't run with that mindset (well, I've known some who do and I know managers who do, but the result is never pretty).
Cheers!
---Fox
You are correct. My "why bother" comes across too abrupt. I actually meant it as curiosity, "Why would you want to do that?" Even worse, I hadn't looked that closely at "Use Current Pages" when multiple pages are set, and so was unaware that pipes where what was used to separate them. (For some reason, I thought they used semi-colons, like email usually does.)I was thinking that the OP was using some other method of setting the home pages. I didn't realize that this was failing in 3.6.
Again, you're right, things that are broken need to be fixed, (usually
) It just goes to show why off-the-cuff advice is often ill-advised.
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