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I currently use IE and Firefox as my browsers. However, I'm interested in eliminating IE for personal reasons, and using Firefox primarily. The only problem I have is the "tabbed" option. IE let's me set-up start up tabs (Control panel>Internet options>General tab) so that everything is how i like it on start up. I haven't found the way to manipulate Firefox as such. Any suggestions?

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Useful follow-ups to the tips already posted by and — plus a few extra, practical ways to get Firefox to open a fixed set of tabs at startup without relying on IE.

One quick, reliable trick is a desktop shortcut that launches Firefox with multiple URLs. Right‑click the desktop, choose New > Shortcut and put the Firefox executable path followed by each URL in quotes. Example:

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" "https://mail.example.com" "https://news.example.com" "https://example.com"

Double‑clicking that shortcut opens each address in its own tab. Adjust the program path for your install (Program Files x86, portable builds, etc.). If Firefox is already running the tabs will open in the existing window.

If you want to save and reuse a set of tabs without a shortcut, bookmark the whole window (Bookmarks > Bookmark All Tabs) into a named folder. When you start Firefox, right‑click that folder and choose Open All in Tabs. For an automatic restore of whatever you had last, enable the session restore option in Preferences so Firefox reopens previous windows and tabs on startup.

For more advanced needs (schedules, different startup profiles, per‑day tab sets) consider a session/startup extension — check compatibility with your Firefox version and back up bookmarks/sessions before installing. If testing a full switch from IE, try a separate Firefox profile or a portable Firefox build so the default browser and system settings remain unchanged while you evaluate.

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Member Avatar for Saschaeh

try this:

Hope it helps!

Member Avatar for bstylez

Sweet! thanks.

I also found another way that worked. Set up my tabs how I want, then go to tools>options> and click the "use current page" button. It adds all your tabs, separated by commas into your default start-up browser settings.

Member Avatar for Saschaeh

Nice one... i didn't know that. Better then installing another plugin.

Member Avatar for champion0471

I want to make the switch as well but IDK

Member Avatar for bstylez

Why do you want to make the switch?

Member Avatar for DimaYasny

I use the morningcoffee plugin for that

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