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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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Good call on moving to Firefox — as showed (and confirmed) Firefox will handle a fixed set of startup tabs, but there are several other, durable ways to manage a startup workspace and to minimize reliance on Internet Explorer. The short list below gives practical alternatives, migration tips, and a few cautions.

  • Save a bookmark folder of your usual pages and use the folder context menu to "Open All in Tabs" when you start. It is a simple, reliable manual workflow and makes backups easy via the bookmark manager.
  • Use a session manager add-on (search Mozilla Add-ons for "session" or "tabs") to save named sessions, auto-save snapshots, and restore after crashes. Note that legacy XUL extensions stopped working after Firefox Quantum (57) in 2017; pick a modern WebExtension-compatible tool.
  • Create separate Firefox profiles if you want entirely different sets of tabs, extensions, and settings for work vs personal browsing. Profiles isolate data cleanly and let you keep one profile strictly for daily browsing.

If the goal is to stop using IE completely, set Firefox as the default browser, remove or hide IE shortcuts, and disable IE features through Windows "Turn Windows features on or off" rather than trying to forcibly uninstall browser components (some Windows features depend on IE). For security, keep Firefox and extensions updated and consider content blockers (for example, NoScript or uBlock Origin equivalents) to reduce risk — the security point raised by is valid in spirit, but the best defense is updates plus sensible extensions and habits.

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Set up your pages the way you like them in Firefox, then choose Tools->Options (I think -- at the moment I'm using a Mac). Under the "Main" tab, hit "Use Current Pages", and it should add a list of comma-separated pages in the "Home Page" field.

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Thank you! Your reply worked out exactly as i expected.

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firefox all day long
ie takes you to sites you never even visited + you need fort knox security on ya pc aswell with ie

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