extensions mechanism (see Chapter 20), you don't have to settle. The official Firefox extensions site (http://addons.mozilla.org) contains an entire category of tabbed browsing extensions to customize the experience. One of my favorites is SessionSaver, which automatically remembers which tabs you have open when you close Firefox and reopens them the next time you start Firefox. Even if Firefox crashes, your tabs are restored. There's no place like home pages If you're like most other Web users, you probably begin your online journey at the same place every day. This is called your home page. Most browsers allow you to have only one home page, but this is like forcing you to choose just one section of the paper to read every morning. Firefox bucks the trend by allowing you to have as many different home pages as you want, each of which opens in its own tab - naturally - whenever you start the browser. However, Firefox can't fix your soggy cereal. You can set multiple home pages in three different ways. I discuss each in the following sections. Setting multiple home pages by entering addresses manually If you know the addresses of the Web sites you want to set as your home pages, you can specify them manually. Follow these steps: 1. 2. In the Options window, select the General icon at the top if it isn't already selected. 3. Enter the addresses of the Web sites you would like to use as your home pages. Separate each address with a | character. For example, to use both CNN and Google as your home pages, enter http://www.cnn.com | http://www.google.com, as illustrated in Figure 7-3. 4. Click OK to save your changes. Your home pages now load in tabs in all future Firefox windows. Setting the bookmarks in a folder as your home pages Of course, Web addresses are strange beasts, and remembering them can be hard. If you've already bookmarked the pages you want to use in a bookmarks folder, you can instruct Firefox to use the folder by following these steps: 1. 2. In the Options window, select the General icon at the top if it isn't already selected. 3. Click the Use Bookmark button. A window appears containing a list of your current bookmarks. 4. From the bookmarks list, choose the folder that contains the bookmarks you want to set as your home pages. REMEMBER Choosing a bookmarks folder sets the bookmarks currently in the folder as your home pages. Adding a bookmark to or removing a bookmark from the selected folder in the future doesn't affect your home pages. If you add a bookmark to a folder and want to add it as a home page, you need to complete these steps again. 5. Click OK to save your changes. As before, your home pages load in tabs in all future Firefox windows. Setting a group of open Web sites as your home pages You can also tell Firefox to use your current set of tabs as your home pages by following these simple steps: 1. Open each Web site you want to set as one of your home pages in a new tab. Ensure that only the Web sites you want to set as your home pages are open in tabs. 2. 3. In the Options window, select the General icon at the top if it isn't already selected. 4. Click the Use Current Pages button. 5. Click OK to save your changes.