Opening tabs closes my already-opened home page tab

[rwv37]

When I start up Firefox, it automatically opens a single tab, my home page. This is just a file://such-and-such.html on my computer.

The first thing I typically do after it has been started up is "Open all tabs in this group" for a particular Tab Stash group. The pages all open successfully, but my home page's tab is closed. I don't want that to occur - I want them all opened in new tabs, with my home page's tab left alone, still having my home page in it.

To be clear, this issue does not just occur at startup, but that's when I usually notice it.

I have found that if, before "Open all tabs in this group", I first manually go to some other page via my home page's tab, then when I do click on "Open all tabs in this group", my home page tab is not closed. I can then click "Back" on its browser history to get to my home page. So this is not some sort of horrible issue that is holding me back in any significant way, but I have to admit I'd prefer if my home page's tab just weren't closed at all in the first place.

Is there some setting I can use to make it behave as I would prefer? I've searched, but haven't found any. I imagine that I may be misunderstanding the meanings of various settings, so if there is one, I probably didn't realize it and haven't tried it.

Otherwise, can this behavior please be changed?

I am using Tab Stash 3.1.1 on Firefox 134.0.2 on Windows 11.

Thanks in advance.

[josh-berry]

There's not a setting today, unfortunately, but I'll keep this in mind.

The reason this happens is Tab Stash looks at what the current tab is and closes it if it's a "default" page like the new-tab page or your homepage. So if the current tab has switched to a different URL, it will not be closed. One way to work around this might be to find a way to launch Firefox to open this local file on startup, but don't actually set it as your homepage in Firefox's settings.

Hope this helps!