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Firefox keeps reopening the same closed tabs over and over and over

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At some stage i my browsing I have had 2 tabs open, one with an online beer store and one with google search results. I closed the off only to find some minutes later they had reopened, I closed the off again and minutes later they had reopened. Now every time I open firefox, open a new tab or click the home button on a tab that's already open these the two tabs reopen. Its very frustrating!

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Every time Firefox opened

== 3 July 2010

At some stage i my browsing I have had 2 tabs open, one with an online beer store and one with google search results. I closed the off only to find some minutes later they had reopened, I closed the off again and minutes later they had reopened. Now every time I open firefox, open a new tab or click the home button on a tab that's already open these the two tabs reopen. Its very frustrating! == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == 3 July 2010

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See How to set the home page: Firefox supports multiple home pages separated by '|' symbols

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Oh my, how silly do I feel! Those two tabs must have been open (along with google) when I hit "use current page as home page". Thank you so much!

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You're welcome

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this seems to be related to "use my current page" to set the home page. If there are two tabs open ( at least in v3.6.8) the home page is not just the current page, but the current layout i.e.

http://tab1|http://tab2

After that every click of the home button created tabs2 ( but only one tab1) after 3 clicks I had 3 copies of tab2