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With Netscape, I could have a home page specified, but on opening the browser it
would give a blank page until I clicked on "home".
This feature does not seem to work in Firefox.

Is there an extension or something else which enables that feature?

Thanks!

John <><

A wise monkey is a monkey who doesn't monkey
with an other monkey's monkey.
(A very free paraphrase of Exodus 20:14).

On 7-4-2005 23:35, John wrote:

> With Netscape, I could have a home page specified, but on opening the browser it
> would give a blank page until I clicked on "home".
> This feature does not seem to work in Firefox.
>
> Is there an extension or something else which enables that feature?
>
> Thanks!
>
> John <><
>
> A wise monkey is a monkey who doesn't monkey
> with an other monkey's monkey.
> (A very free paraphrase of Exodus 20:14).
Type
about:config
in the addressbar and change the value of
browser.startup.page
to
0
Meaning of possible values of this preferences:
0: Blank
1: Home (a.k.a. browser.startup.homepage)
2: Last (probably does not work in Firefox)
See <http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries#Browser..2A>
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Regards,

Roland de Ruiter
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I am using Moz for reference, but it should be about the same.

Go to edit>preference, and in the navigator preferences (which should
comme up first) you will see a pull-down tab that might say "display on
<t>Navigator startup</t>"(where <t> is the menu). If you click on the
radio button below that that says "blank page", the effect is produced
poly-p man

On 8-4-2005 0:08, Poly-poly man wrote:

> I am using Moz for reference, but it should be about the same.
>
> Go to edit>preference, and in the navigator preferences (which should
> comme up first) you will see a pull-down tab that might say "display on
> <t>Navigator startup</t>"(where <t> is the menu). If you click on the
> radio button below that that says "blank page", the effect is produced
> poly-p man
>
Well that's the problem with Firefox, it has no widget in the options
dialog to configure it. It can be done with about:config, though.
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Regards,

Roland de Ruiter
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On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 00:02:09 +0200, Roland <> wrote:

>On 7-4-2005 23:35, John wrote:
>
>> With Netscape, I could have a home page specified, but on opening the browser it
>> would give a blank page until I clicked on "home".
>> This feature does not seem to work in Firefox.
>>
>> Is there an extension or something else which enables that feature?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> John <><
>>
>> A wise monkey is a monkey who doesn't monkey
>> with an other monkey's monkey.
>> (A very free paraphrase of Exodus 20:14).
>Type
> about:config
>in the addressbar and change the value of
> browser.startup.page
>to
> 0
>Meaning of possible values of this preferences:
>0: Blank
>1: Home (a.k.a. browser.startup.homepage)
>2: Last (probably does not work in Firefox)
>See <http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries#Browser..2A>

Thanks, Roland - works like a charm!

John <><

A wise monkey is a monkey who doesn't monkey
with an other monkey's monkey.
(A very free paraphrase of Exodus 20:14).

On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 00:02:09 +0200, Roland wrote:


> Type
> about:config
> in the addressbar and change the value of
> browser.startup.page
> to
> 0
> Meaning of possible values of this preferences:
> 0: Blank
> 1: Home (a.k.a. browser.startup.homepage)
> 2: Last (probably does not work in Firefox)
> See <http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries#Browser..2A>

Option 2 seems to work fine in Firefox 1.0 (linux) and 1.0.2 (windows)
it would be nice if there was an option that would reopen a set of tabs
or all the tabs that were there (like a "Last tabs" function)
the latter is probably more useful to add, since you can already bookmark
and open a set of tabs. being able to start up with "last tabs" would be
useful in situations where you shut down the browser (or computer)
without bookmarking a set and then realise that you werent quite done
looking at them.

lacunae wrote on [Mon, 11 Apr 2005 15:15:06 -0500]:
> On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 00:02:09 +0200, Roland wrote:
>
>
>> Type
>> about:config
>> in the addressbar and change the value of
>> browser.startup.page
>> to
>> 0
>> Meaning of possible values of this preferences:
>> 0: Blank
>> 1: Home (a.k.a. browser.startup.homepage)
>> 2: Last (probably does not work in Firefox)
>> See <http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries#Browser..2A>
>
> Option 2 seems to work fine in Firefox 1.0 (linux) and 1.0.2 (windows)
> it would be nice if there was an option that would reopen a set of tabs
> or all the tabs that were there (like a "Last tabs" function)
> the latter is probably more useful to add, since you can already bookmark
> and open a set of tabs. being able to start up with "last tabs" would be
> useful in situations where you shut down the browser (or computer)
> without bookmarking a set and then realise that you werent quite done
> looking at them.

checkout the session saver extension
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/sessionsaver