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How to set homepage and startup page separately?

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apkittis1234
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I want it so that when I startup firefox the first page is the Firefox New Tab page (is it called about:home?), and when i press the home button it takes me to google. All websites I've visited have lumped together the startup page and home page, which isn't what I'm looking for....

I want it so that when I startup firefox the first page is the Firefox New Tab page (is it called about:home?), and when i press the home button it takes me to google. All websites I've visited have lumped together the startup page and home page, which isn't what I'm looking for....

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cor-el
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The default new tab page is about:newtab and the default home page is about:home. You can see this in "Tools -> Page Info -> General". Both look the same "Firefox Home" page, so do not get confused.

You can force a specific startup page by specifying the URL in the target line of the Firefox desktop shortcut.

There is also the browser.startup.page pref available on the about:config page.