Firefox Extension: New Tab Homepage

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If you're using Firefox, then you'll notice when you open a new tab it doesn't go to your homepage. It actually goes to a blank screen. This has been bugging me for some time, so I googled around and found an extension that makes it go to your homepage. If you have more than one homepage set for multiple tabs, then it will default to the first one you have set. A bug I see with this extension is that when using it, it doesn't work with "autotext". Meaning when you open a new Google tab, and then type the start of something you've typed before on Google, it doesn't show a list of things that you might want to type. With this extension installed, clicking a tab's window twice will open a new tab as well. For some people this has been a problem, but I don't see anything wrong with that. I guess it's another one of those things users would call a bug, while developers would call it a feature ;)

This brings me to my next thought, which is multiple homepages for different tabs. I hadn't known this feature had existed, until playing around with configuration options. Aparently you can open the items you want set as your homepage, and go to Tools > Options > Main and click "Use current pages" it will set them all as homepages. When you open a new instance of Firefox, it will open all those pages in new tabs. Also you could just separate the sites you want open with a | (pipe sign), and it will do it as well. I guess you learn something every day!

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