Start up with defined tabs

[silverback]

A neighbour has a friend who has an iPad; this, apparently, has an icon on the screen which, when touched, opens Firefox with three tabs already set up.
He wants this on his Windows XP computer and has asked me if it can be achieved. Can it, please?

Thanks
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[HansV]

Yes, that is possible - see How to set the home page, in particular the section Set more than one website as your home page.

In short: open the web pages you want to start with (and no others).
Select Tools > Options.
In the General tab, under Startup, click "Use Current Pages".

[Timelord]

or if they want to manually enter them go to Internet Options and in the Homepage window type in the different addresses wanted. 1 per line.

[Bigaldoc]

or if they want to manually enter them go to Internet Options and in the Homepage window type in the different addresses wanted. 1 per line.

In Firefox? I think you were thinking about IE...

[Timelord]

You are correct, that is what I get for not reading the question thoroughly.

[silverback]

Yes, that is possible - see How to set the home page, in particular the section Set more than one website as your home page.
In short: open the web pages you want to start with (and no others).
Select Tools > Options.
In the General tab, under Startup, click "Use Current Pages".

Thanks for that, but I failed to explain exactly what neighbour wants.
He wants exactly the effect that your solution above provides but attached to a new desktop icon. When he clicks on his existing Firefox icon, he still wants that effect to be to go to his nominated home page i.e he wants initial view in Firefox to be different depending on which icon is clicked.
As a result of a previous posting in this thread, I've got an Eileen's Lounge icon which opens Firefox on the portal page but I haven't been able to modify this to make it open more than one tab.
Is this possible, please?
Thanks
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[Leif]

Not perfect, but:

Create a batch file (e.g. "URLs.bat") and in it put:

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start "" "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" http://www.google.co.uk http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ http://www.eileenslounge.com/

Then, either create a shortcut to the batch file, or simply keep the batch file on the desktop as the 'shortcut'.

[HansV]

Somewhat simpler: create a shortcut with target

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" http://www.google.co.uk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; http://www.eileenslounge.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

(I created it by first creating a shortcut to Firefox on my desktop, then editing its Target in its Properties dialog)

[Leif]

Somewhat simpler: create a shortcut with target...

I could swear I tried that to no avail - but a much neater solution!

[silverback]

Thank you Leif and Hans.
Exactly what was required.

Silverback

[silverback]

Leif and Hans
My neighbour sends his grateful thanks. It's exactly what he wanted.

Cheers
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