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How do I keep app tabs from opening as a regular tab when I restart Firefox? (In addition to staying as apptabs)

chriscob
chriscob
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I set up four apptabs, then set the rest of the tabs I want to appear when I start the browser, set the Tools, Options, Use Current pages, and closed the browser. When I restart, the apptabs appear as I would expect, but they ALSO appear as regular tabs. If this is the way it's supposed to work, what is the point?

I set up four apptabs, then set the rest of the tabs I want to appear when I start the browser, set the Tools, Options, Use Current pages, and closed the browser. When I restart, the apptabs appear as I would expect, but they ALSO appear as regular tabs. If this is the way it's supposed to work, what is the point?

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David McRitchie
David McRitchie
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You have your wording mixed around two different options one is for

When Firefox Starts: Show ...
and the other is for setting home page -- Use current pages

I expect that first one was "Show my Home Page"

The app-tabs then are in addition to your home page, you just repeated your home pages into normal tabs.

The app-tabs are preserved from one session to the next.

For me currently here in questions I have 8-9 tabs set up as app-tabs, I know what the are and in what order, my home page is not one them. I can clear all of the tabs to right of my app-tabs with Multiple Tab Handler and continue.

Home page is just a page I can bring up quickly with a button, I can bring up any page quickly with a keyboard shortcut or through the AwesomeBar features available in the Location Bar, and History and Bookmarks sidebar and Library list.

more information on app-tabs:

I am sticking with my choice to bookmark those I want as app-tabs and to refresh everything by closing all tabs then using the bookmark folder to restore tabs to be used as app-tab and pin them all at once using Multiple Tab Handler, so there is only one page in each.

In normal use I will restart at the first level in a tab, similar but not quite the same as really clearing out the cobwebs.