How do I make Firefox open to one of my saved tabs?

I pretty much always have a few select tabs open. Is it possible to make Firefox open to a certain tab whenever I open it? I know it will open to the tab that you were on when you last closed Firefox, but it is not always on my mind to navigate to that tab that I want opened whenever I close it.

''the-edmeister [[#answer-685296|said]]''
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See - [[How to set the home page]]
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Thanks, but that did not help: I know how to change the homepage of your browser.
I want Firefox to navigate to a certain tab whenever I launch Firefox. There is an option regarding homepages that makes it so it shows your homepage on launch, but this makes it unable to save your tabs and windows

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