Can I open a tab with a different page than my homepage?

Im assuming you cant do that with Lion...(Not a techie here and new to mac) Just seems like such a simple thing - not sure why they didnt do it except t hat maybe no one thought about it.

Yes I tried submitting feedback but Ive done that with so many things and there's no way to know if anybody is reading it.

This just seems like such a simple thing that would be easy to set up - just like you can set the New Window to a URL for your homepage, why not be able to set a different URL for the New Tab page? I just wanted one to be My Google News and one to be the iGoogle Homepage (which I just discovered but gives me different content)

Actually I thought that option didnt exist..but I just started to follow what you were saying. I created a folder with that one URL...With Lion, I can set that folder for open 'new window' but not 'open new tab' so it kinda sorta works..It's the opposite of what I was trying to do .I wanted to use that URL for a new tab , which I can't but I can use it for a new window.

The 'new window' gives me the option of the custom folder; the new tab only gives me options of Topsites/Homepage/Emptypage/Samepage/Bookmarks.

Ill play with it - I think I get what you're saying and maybe I can switch things up to make it work like I want to by changing the homepage and the URL folder. Thanks.

Actually I did get it to work the way I wanted to; thanks. Its hard to explain but I had to set my homepage to what I wanted my tab to be , and then set my new window to the folder with just the one URL. So in this one example (although now I know I can customize it). I set my homepage to igoogle but then set my tab to open with my homepage (which really isnt my homepage) and a new window to open with a folder that just had "Google News" in it.

Seems confusing and a lot of steps to do something that could easily be accomplished by just letting the user type in the URL of what they wanted. Instead, I had to jump through hoops and basically set up a homepage that is not really a homepage because my new windows wont open with it as a homepage...so what makes it a homepage? If that logic makes sense. A homepage is not really a homepage then.

This is another example of where if Id ask Apple, theyd tell me it couldnt be done. Ive had the worst luck with Applecare and instore trainers. Most of the time when they tell me "I Dont know" or "This can't be done", I post something here and get the answers.