App Tabs change their 'home' page after browsing

Hi, I have set a few App Tabs on the browser. They are set for the 'home' page for that site. I browse the site from the App Tab. When I return to that site later, again using the App Tab, it does not go back to the 'home' page of that site. It remembers the last page I browsed on. I always want the App Tab to open on the 'home' page of that site. Thanks.

I presume "when I return to that site later" means, when Firefox is restarted:
Firefox will remember where you were at for the app-tab in the next session, so that is explained. They are functioning correctly.
You cannot open a link/bookmark to another site in an app-tab, but you can from the location bar or if the link or bookmark involves JavaScript. You can go to the bottom of the pile of your tabs (oldest at bottom, newest at top) by selecting the lowest tab. After doing that recheck to see if there are more lower down as you can only see 15 webpages at a time in a tab drop-down.
There is nothing to stop you from deleting an app-tab either accidentally or on purpose.
What I do is save all my app-tabs into a bookmark folder. Every once in while, daily at least, I wipe out all my app-tabs and do something else or simply restore all of my app-tabs but they are regular tabs. But I have the "Multiple Tab Handler" extension and I select all of the tabs I want as app-tab from the first already selected and extend selection with the Shift key to the last I want and pin those as app-tabs in one shot. A few more I will read like the weather and dismiss them. This way they are nice clean tabs with nothing else in their tab history. (you right-click on the back/forward button to see tab history)
App-tabs are considered part of browsing history so you must save your browsing history for app-tabs to work. '''Tools > Options > Privacy''' you must have "Remember my browsing history" and in Settings where check marks mean to clear things you must leave unchecked "Browsing history". Annotated picture:
* http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/4928/clearcachew.png
App-tabs more details -- https://support.mozilla.com/questions/837562

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