I like my start tabs, but not that much!

December 29, 2008 8:43 AM

Why is Firefox duplicating my tabs?

I have Firefox 3.0.5 running on Mac OS X 10.5.6, and for a good long while (I think it started with 3.0.1 but I didn't keep specifics), when I open Firefox, it has "doubled" my start tabs - I have five tabs as my startup state in FF, but when I start FF I get 10 tabs - each of my five tabs appears twice.

I have no idea why this is happening. I've disabled my add-ons and re-enabled them one by one, and nothing seems to affect this behavior - no matter what I try, FF duplicates my startup tabs. When I open a new tab from within an existing session of FF, it does not duplicate; it's only doing this at startup.

Anybody have any idea why Firefox is doing this, and what I can do about it?

posted by pdb to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

Clear out all of your start tabs inside of the Edit -> Preferences menu. Add just one site in there that is not a current start tab location. Restart FF. What does it do?
posted by deezil at 9:10 AM on December 29, 2008

errr, I believe it's under Edit -> Preferences on Mac. Don't hold me to it.
posted by deezil at 9:12 AM on December 29, 2008

Response by poster: deezil - I'm not at my mac right now but I will try that later. I have tried something similar in the past (with the same duplicating result) but not with one single tab, so it'll be interesting to see if that makes a difference.
posted by pdb at 9:17 AM on December 29, 2008

Those steps are to make sure it's actually just duplicating the start tab entries, and not trying to do anything else screwy.
posted by deezil at 9:56 AM on December 29, 2008