Opening an Application on Current Desktop

So I've tried digging around on my Mac to see if I could figure it out myself, but there didn't seem to be a way to do it, so I'm curious if anybody has an answer. Usually, I have a lot of desktops open, with one application open on each one so it's easier to slide between them. I was curious if there was a way, when you open an application that it opens on the current desktop you're using as opposed to the last one you opened it on. This is a little tedious, as sometimes I will open safari on "Desktop 2" and it really opens on "Desktop 4" so it requires me to shift the position of the desktop's so I get it to where it's comfortable for me to slide between them. I couldn't find anything in the settings related to this, unless I'm just blind.

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Hey guys, all of the sudden the <application class="Firefox*"> kicked in and now it is working just fine!!
I'm a happy camper Thanks moljac024!!
and using B's tip to get an application's class (xprop |grep WM_CLASS) I got the class of Thunderbird (which is 'Thunderbird-bin') and got both of them working.
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