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How do I stop Firefox 8 at startup from opening 2 tabs?

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Firefox 8 opens the following 2 tabs at startup:

1. "Getting Started with Mozilla Firefox" (this is unwanted !! http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/central/)

2. my homepage (http://www.google.co.uk/)

How do I fix that ? Thanks, any help would be most appreiated.

Firefox 8 opens the following 2 tabs at startup: 1. "Getting Started with Mozilla Firefox" (this is unwanted !! http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/central/) 2. my homepage (http://www.google.co.uk/) How do I fix that ? Thanks, any help would be most appreiated.

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Thanks , I tried different ways resetting the home page several times in Options/General/Startup, none of it worked. I solved the problem by uninstalling Firefox 8, cleaning all remnants from the hard disk and the registry and then I re-installed Firefox 8.0.1 That solved my problem but thanks for trying.

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You have more than one website as your home page.

see here how to set homepage:


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Chosen Solution

Thanks , I tried different ways resetting the home page several times in Options/General/Startup, none of it worked. I solved the problem by uninstalling Firefox 8, cleaning all remnants from the hard disk and the registry and then I re-installed Firefox 8.0.1 That solved my problem but thanks for trying.

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If it happens again then try to remove the sessionstore.js file(s) in the Firefox Profile Folder.