Howto open a webpage with Firefox upon login on Mac?

I'd like to open a webpage upon login on Mac.
What i did so far:
- I saved the url location from firefox onto my desktop. It's a .webloc file. Firefox can open this file at this point.
- Firefox is set up as my default browser.
- Added the webloc-file to my startup list on my Mac useraccount.
Then i try. The website will open, but it uses Safari instead of Firefox (firefox is still default browser).
Next thing it tried:
- Associate .webloc files to open with Firefox by default instead of Safari (that appeared to be the problem).
- PROBLEM: Mac/Firefox won't let me use Firefox as default application to run webloc files with.
How to solve this?

Hello Zeror, you have firefox as default browser in firefox preferences only ?
or you have it already and in your safari preferences ? check from Safari : menu > Preferences > General > Default web browser > firefox .
you can try the above if you haven't already.
thank you

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