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When I restart Firefox, my pinned tabs open to the page that I last viewed rather than the page that I originally pinned. For example, if I pinned to a local ne

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don.w
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When I restart Firefox, my pinned tabs open to the last webpage that I viewed rather than the page that I originally pinned. For example, if I pinned to a local newspaper's website, navigate to espn while on the pinned tab and then close Firefox, the next time I open Firefox, the pinned tab goes to espn rather than the local newspaper's site.

Additionally, the same thing happens if I am reading an article on the pinned tab. When reopening Firefox, the pinned tab goes to the last article viewed.

When I restart Firefox, my pinned tabs open to the last webpage that I viewed rather than the page that I originally pinned. For example, if I pinned to a local newspaper's website, navigate to espn while on the pinned tab and then close Firefox, the next time I open Firefox, the pinned tab goes to espn rather than the local newspaper's site. Additionally, the same thing happens if I am reading an article on the pinned tab. When reopening Firefox, the pinned tab goes to the last article viewed.

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Ed
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Hi don.w,

That is just the way that pinned tabs are designed. They are meant to be left on the page you want them left on e.g. a web mail account.

If you want to pin a newspaper then I would pin the front page and then open any article you want to read in a new tab.

Having said that there is an addon called Tab-utilities which contains an option to automatically revert a pinned tab to the original URL.

I hope that helps.

--Edward