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How to change the default page. Setting up the start page in different browsers

The start site is the one that opens first by default when the search engine starts, or when you press “Home” or a certain key combination. This function is needed for ease of use and quick start in the browser. As a rule, the start page is set by the program manufacturer - this is a common search or messaging system, the manufacturer's website, or a panel that gives quick access to several resources.

We will tell you how to install, change or delete the home page in different browsers

In almost all browsers you can edit the start bar or page. The user does this for himself to make it more convenient to work. For example, he can set another search engine, email service, news or weather site, etc. to launch by default. In this case, the procedure for changing the starting resource depends on the specific program.

In addition, when downloading files, the user often forgets to uncheck the boxes in which the program offers to set its resource as default. Often these services have poor functionality or even harm the computer, and it is impossible to get rid of them in the usual way. There is a universal way to remove an intrusive start tab.

Google Chrome is the most popular search engine in most countries of the world, however, not all users know how to change its initial resource. This is done through the browser settings - you can change the settings so that Google launches a specific tab (possibly several) when you start working.

Setting up a home resource through a search engine:

  1. Click on the Chrome menu, go to “Settings” - a new tab will open in the browser.
  2. Select the Show Home Button option found in the Appearance menu.
  3. On the left side relative to the search bar there will now be a button with a house symbol, which is needed to quickly return to the “Home Page”.
  4. Click “Change”, set the start page with which it is convenient for you to start working in the browser.
  5. A window will open where the current page is entered, which is launched by default, and you need to indicate the desired site in the field.
  6. Insert the website address into the box so that it is counted as the starting website.
  7. You can also click on the “Quick Access Page” option, which is needed to use Google search and access several favorite sites.
  8. Save your progress, then check the functionality - the resource specified earlier should start.

Setting up is very easy

Configuration via startup actions. Unlike the previous method, this one will help you open not only the default resource when you launch Google Chrome, but also one or more specially designated ones. Setting algorithm:

  1. Click "Menu" in Chrome, go to "Settings".
  2. In the “Open at startup” item, activate one of the options: “Open a new tab” (search bar and bookmarks), “Open previously opened tabs” (closed when the last work session ended, including accidentally) or “Open specified pages” ( you can specify one or more).
  3. When selecting the latter, click “Add”, then enter or copy links to resources in the window (it is not recommended to add a lot if you are using a weak computer, and also to use the function for someone else - this will violate confidentiality).
  4. It is possible to open current tabs at startup - this way you won’t have to copy links to resources.
  5. Save the changes by clicking “OK” and check if everything works.

You can choose which pages the browser will load on startup

Unlike other browsers, in the version of Google Chrome for mobile devices you cannot set a default resource or assign tabs that will open at startup. However, if you do not close certain sites, they will appear the next time you use the search engine. In addition, if you close all tabs before turning off the program, then when you start it again, the main window will open with a search bar and a panel of frequently used resources.

Opera

The process of setting up a home page in Opera is almost no different from Google:

  1. Click “Menu”, then select “Settings”, then “General settings”.
  2. Click on the “Basic” tab.
  3. In the On Startup option, click Start from Home Page.
  4. In order to install the starting resource itself, enter the site address or click “Current page” if the desired one is already open.
  5. Save your settings.

When you launch Opera Mini, a panel appears by default, displaying bookmarks that are popular with the user.

The procedure is similar to the previous viewer

Yandex

The Yandex browser is made on the same engine as Google Chrome, so they are similar in many ways. The same goes for the controls - the developers have made some differences, but it is still similar.

In Yandex, it is not possible to set an arbitrary site as your home site. Perhaps this was done to ensure that users used only services from this developer, and did not set other search engines and resources as their start page. However, Yandex offers 3 convenient options:

  • “Open quick access page” - when you start the browser, a tab will appear with a search bar and a resource panel, the location of which depends on how often the user opens them. You can remove unnecessary ones and add desired ones, as well as move cells.
  • "Restore tabs opened last time" - this will restore the last working session. Convenient for those who always leave the same resources open, for example, mail, weather forecast or news.
  • “Open Yandex if there are no tabs” - an option that will send the user to the main resource of the search engine if all resources were closed before turning it off. In this case, Yandex itself will act as home.

In this case there is less variability

Safari

Changing the start page in this browser is no more difficult than in others:

  1. Open the site you want to see as default on startup.
  2. Click on Safari Menu.
  3. In the drop-down menu, click “Settings”, then “General”.
  4. To set an open resource as the starting resource, click “Set current page”.
  5. If you want to make another resource home, then enter or copy its address in the box.
  6. Save the settings and check if they work.

The Apple browser has similar functionality

Mozilla Firefox

The procedure for installing the start page through a browser on a computer:

  1. Open the site that should become the starting site.
  2. Click “Menu” - “Settings”.
  3. In the “General” section, find the item “When Firefox starts” - “Show home page”.
  4. Click “Use current page” or paste the link to the desired site into the special field if you have not opened the resource.
  5. You can also click on “Use bookmark” - a window will appear in which you can specify one of the desired resources.

The configuration will not cause any difficulties for the user

Installation on phone:

  1. By default, on mobile devices, the starting tab is the tab with the panel of the most popular resources. To open the start page, click “Menu”, then “Bookmarks” - “Home Page”.
  2. Pin your site to it. To do this, you need to press and hold it. In the menu that opens, select “Pin site” - now it will always be displayed on the main page.
  3. To add a new bookmark to the panel, click and hold one of the unnecessary ones - a menu will appear in which you can select “Edit”, then set a new address (enter it or select from bookmarks).
  4. Close your browser. Now if you switch to another program, it will be active in the background. To see the panel docked the next time you start, click “Menu” - “Exit”.

Internet Explorer

How to install the start page:

  1. Launch the resource that should be the starting resource or paste its address into the search bar.
  2. Click “Tools” - “Internet Options” (gear icon in the upper right corner).
  3. Click "Current" to make the currently running tab the starting tab.
  4. To make Explorer open several sites when starting, enter links to them in the appropriate box (you need to make sure that each is written on a separate line).
  5. To open a simple Explorer tab on startup, select Blank.

On mobile devices there is a bookmarks bar where you can add the sites you want.

What to do if you can’t install the start page

Some users have a question about how to change the start page in Google Chrome or another browser if the usual setting does not help - nothing happens or the intrusive tab returns to its place (after restarting the browser or computer).

Most often, the cause is services like Webalta or Amigo, which end up on the computer as a virus. The PC may also be infected with malicious code, or a program may have been installed on it that forcibly changes the home page.

First of all, you can reset your browser version or settings. This will save all passwords and bookmarks, but apps and extensions will be removed.

You can also selectively remove add-ons that may be viral. These include Babylon - a translation program that changes the resource that opens by default, as well as some other settings, and then does not allow them to be edited. To uninstall Babylon in Windows, click “Control Panel” - “Uninstall a Program”. Find this application and click "Uninstall". Do the same with Babylon add-ons, such as Toolbar, Browser Protection and others. To uninstall an application on Mac OS, find it in Applications. Place it in the “Trash” and then empty the latter.

If this does not help, then download a virus removal program, for example, AdwCleaner and activate it. In some cases, the reason why a tab doesn't change is deep in the system.

Sometimes only special cleaning utilities can help

Methods that only work on Windows with any browser

Editing properties:

  1. Right-click on the search engine shortcut and select “Properties”.
  2. In the “Shortcut” tab, find “Object”.
  3. Remove the quotes and website address if there are any, and leave the rest.
  4. Do this for all browser shortcuts on the system.
  5. When you continue to use the browser, respond more carefully to notifications during installation and do not skip the points where they suggest installing a search engine or start page - click “No”.

Editing hosts

  1. Find the file C: - Windows - System32 - drivers - ets - hosts.
  2. Open it as a text document, click “edit” and delete all the contents of the file.
  3. Remove all old browser shortcuts and install new ones.

The specified file should be opened in a text editor to edit

Bottom line

The starting resource is needed to make it more convenient to start working with the browser. Different search engines offer different solutions for this.

Note. If you're using someone else's account, you probably won't be able to get rid of the intrusive tab. This procedure requires full rights to use the computer, which students or company employees usually do not have.

Hello, dear readers of the computer help site. In today's article, we'll look at how to change the browser's start page, or in other words, the "home" page that is loaded when it starts, using the example of all known Internet browsers.

Users are not always satisfied with the standard home or start page of the browser; this happens when, for example, the browser comes with the Mail.ru home page installed, but Yandex or Google is required. There is also a situation when the start page changes on its own, after installing any programs or add-ons for the browser, viruses and others are usually to blame for this, I advise you to read the article. Well, if it’s not a virus, but you need to change this page of your own free will, just because you don’t like it or aren’t happy with it, then in this article we’ll figure out how to change the quick access page in your browser.

How to change the browser start page.

Let's look at the example of all the major browsers, starting with the leader of browsers - Google Chrome (Google Chrome).

How to change the start page in Google Chrome.

And so, to change the home page in Google Chrome, you need to click on the settings icon in the upper right corner under the cross, then select “Settings”. In the window that opens, in the “Open at startup” item, opposite “Specified pages”, click on “Add” and enter the address of the desired site there.

If you look a little lower, there will be an item “Appearance” and opposite “Show Home Page button”, you can enter the address that will open when you click on the “Home Page” button:

You can also open the home page using the Alt+Home combination; you can see the full list of Google Chrome hotkey combinations.

How to change the start page in the Opera browser.

To change the home (start) page in the Opera browser, you need to click on the "Opera" icon, then "Settings" - "General settings", or use the hotkey combination Ctrl +.

In the “General” settings window, in the “Home” item, you need to enter the address of the desired site and click “Ok”.

How to change the start page in Mozilla Firefox.

In Mozilla Firefox this is done like this: “Tools - Settings - General” and opposite “Home Page”, you need to enter the site address. Just above, in the line “When you start Firefox”, you can also select the option to open the page when you start Mozilla Firefox; in the drop-down menu you can choose from three options: “Show home page” (the site address specified below will open), “Show blank page" (a blank Mozilla Firefox tab will open) and "Show windows and tabs opened last time" (tabs that were last viewed, i.e., that were not closed, will be restored). In general, if you want the desired site to load at startup, then you need to select the first option “Home Page”, and below enter the desired address and whenever Mozilla Firefox is launched, this site will load.

How to change the home page in Internet Explorer.

"Tools - Internet Options - General", enter the address in the "Home Page" window, then click the "Apply" and "Ok" button. In new versions of Internet Explorer, for example in Windows 8, you just need to click on the settings icon in the upper corner, and in the drop-down menu select “Browser Options”, on the “General” tab in the Home page line, enter the desired address.

How to change your home page in Safari.

In the Apple Safari browser, changing the start page is as easy as in the examples above. To do this, go to the “Settings” menu, then “General”, in the “Home page” item enter the address.

Yandex browser.

Sometimes, users have a question: how to change the start page of Yandex.Browser? The fact is that in this way, as in the examples above, it is not possible to change the page in the browser from Yandex, there is no such option, i.e. it is there, but you can’t set another site to load; the choice only falls on either loading the yandex.ru site, or the quick launch page, or restoring the last open tabs. But you can put another site on the quick access page in another way. To do this, you need to right-click on the Yandex Browser shortcut, select "Properties", on the "Shortcut" tab, in the "Object" line, enter the address of the desired site, thus: browser..ru - enter the site you need.

After this, you need to go to the Yandex Browser settings and select the download method, in the “Where to start” line, select “Open quick access page”.

Now the Yandex Browser has a quick access page installed and when it starts, the site that you specified in the properties will load.

This is probably where the article on changing the quick launch page in the browser ends. If you have any questions, please ask them in the comments.

The home page is also called the start page, because it is a tab that opens immediately when the browser starts, unless you have previously set the saving of open tabs - in this case, those pages that were in the browser before it was closed are launched.

This is also the main page that you go to when you click on the Home button. Users are often not satisfied with the start tab, so the question arises of how to change the home page in Internet Explorer. Fortunately, it is changing. This is quite easy to do. Now we'll tell you how.

Why does the start page change?

We all download and install certain programs on our PC. Some of them can change browser settings, in particular, change the start page. This does not mean that the program must necessarily be infected with a virus, but nevertheless, changes have been made. The user may categorically disagree with them, especially if he was not informed about this.

Home tabs can also change due to viruses. If you have not installed any programs, run an antivirus scan of your system. It is likely that you will have at least one. After removing the virus, you can safely change the changed start tab (usually some kind of advertising) to your old one.

As a rule, the starting site is Yandex or any other search engine. This is convenient - you can immediately enter a request without unnecessary clicks.

Windows 8 has two versions of IE. One of them has a classic look, and the second opens from the start screen. The start page changes in two browsers at once. A kind of synchronization.

Method No. 1

We make changes through the settings of the browser itself.

Let's launch IE. Click on the gear icon. Next, there is a choice in favor of the penultimate item “Internet Options”.

Go to the “General” block. In the first section, change the default link to the address of the future start tab. We recommend that you copy it in advance. For example, enter the address of the Yandex or Google search engine.

Click "Apply" and then OK.

Restart your browser. The page will be changed immediately.

The next time you open a new browsing session or a new window (or click the house-style Home button), the home tabs will load automatically.

There may be several starting sites. In this case, you need to place them each time on a new line in the same field.

If you currently have a tab open with the site that you want to make home, click on the “Current” button.

To restore the default home tab, click on the “Original” button.

If after all the procedures the browser somehow starts to work incorrectly, restore it to default settings. To do this, go to the “Internet Options” window and click on the “Reset” button. Next, check the box next to “Delete personal settings” and click on the “Reset” button again. The ability to roll back to the original version of the browser saves you in case of any incorrectly changed settings.

Method number 2

You can also set up your Internet Explorer home page using another method.

  • Go to the Control Panel via Start.
  • We need the “Configuring computer settings” section. Click on the “Internet Options” object. Since IE is a standard browser, it is its settings that can be changed.
  • Go to the “General” block and enter the page url, as in the previous method. The change will also take effect after restarting the browser.

Setting up the start tab in IE will not take much of your time. You can immediately open it in the browser and then just click on the “Current” button so as not to write manually or copy the address from the navigation bar.

The start tab allows you to go straight to the site you want when you launch your browser. There is also an option to install multiple sites. If you press the Home button, several of them will open at once.

How to change the start page in Google Chrome? This question is asked by millions of users around the world, because after restyling the browser it became completely unclear where and what is located. In addition, beginners often get confused in the settings. That is why this material was written. It's time to dot all the i's and tell you popularly how to properly configure the start page of a web browser. Many people need this. This means you need to provide detailed instructions.

It is worth noting that this is the most popular browser (according to statistics). Therefore, many questions arise regarding setting up this web browser. However, let's move on to the setup process itself.

Setup procedure

The start page doesn't always have to display anything. By default, Chrome uses the Google home page. But many people are not happy with this. Perhaps they prefer a different search or don't want to search at all.

It is possible to force Google Chrome to show a new tab at startup. And empty. This is quite easy to do. You just need to get to the browser settings. Here are detailed instructions on how to properly configure what we need:

After this, you just need to restart your web browser, and it will immediately load with the new start page. As you can see, everything is extremely simple. Especially if you strictly follow the instructions provided in this material. However, please note that using this method you will not be able to set any third-party resource as your home page. We'll talk about this in the next chapter.

So, how to change the home page in Google Chrome so that the resource that the user requires is loaded? There is nothing complicated here either, but there will be a little more steps to configure such a function than in the previous chapter.


Now all that remains is to restart Google Chrome and check that the settings are correct. If everything was done correctly, then after the restart the resource you selected will start.

Conclusion

It's time to take stock and draw conclusions. We tried to talk about how to change the start page in Google Chrome. In general, this is done simply. But the algorithm of actions depends on what content the user wants to see when launching the browser.

If you are categorically not satisfied with the main page with the Google search engine in its central part, then you can easily change it to something more interesting or beautiful. Even a beginner can cope with this task.

We bring to your attention detailed instructions on how you can set or change the start page in the most popular browsers, such as Internet Explorer 8, Mozilla Mozilla FireFox 11, Google Chrome 18, Opera 11, as well as how to make the start page there was no page.

Internet Explorer 8: Changing the Start Page

One of the most famous browsers, which is easy to configure and manage.

In order to change or assign the start page in this browser, you first need to launch it and in the main window that opens, select the “Tools” tab, and then “Internet Options”:

Then in the “Internet Options” window that opens, on the “General” tab, enter the address of the required page in the text field (step 1) and click on the OK button (step 2). If you want to make the start page the one you are currently on, then to do this you need to click on the “Current” button, as shown in the figure:

If you do not want to use the start page, then you can click on the “Empty” button. After this, when you start the browser, a blank page will open, and the address of the page used will change to this:

Google Chrome 18: Start Page Change

New popular and universal browser from Google.

In order to change or assign the start page, in this browser you should click on the wrench icon in the upper right corner of the main window and select “Settings” in the drop-down menu.

  1. Select “Settings”;
  2. In the “Initial group” section, set the switch to the “Next pages” position;
  3. Click on the "Add" link.

In the window that opens, enter the address of the page that you want to make the start page in the “Add page” field. You can add multiple pages, in which case they will be opened when you launch the browser in different tabs. Click the "OK" button.

If you do not want to use the start page, then in step 2 you should set the switch to the “Quick access page” position. In this case, you do not need to enter anything else, because the text field will become unavailable.

Mozilla Firefox 11: Start Page Change

A very popular browser with many add-ons and extensions.

In order to change or assign the start page in Mozilla Firefox, select the “Tools” tab in the main program window in the menu bar, and select “Settings” in the menu that opens.

Then in the “Settings” window that opens, you need to select the first item “Basic”. In the “Home Page” section, enter the address of your start page in the text field and click OK.

  1. select “Show blank page”;
  2. Click OK.

Opera 11.62: change of start page

This browser is very common among most users.

Changing or assigning the start page of this browser is quite simple. If your menu bar is inactive, then in the upper left corner you should click on the “Opera” button, and in the menu that opens, select “Settings”, then “General settings”.

If the menu bar is active, then you should simply select the “Tools” menu item and also select the “General settings” item in the list that opens. Then in the window that opens, you need to go to the “Basic” tab and enter the address of the start page in the text field, as shown in the figure:

If you do not want to use the start page in this browser, then in the Settings window:

  1. expand the drop-down list as shown in the figure below;
  2. select “Open Express Panel”;
  3. click OK.

After this, your browser will open the Express panel at startup instead of the start page.

Removing the start page in all browsers

The start page in all browsers can be removed if, instead of the current start page, you specify the “about:blank” page in the text field, as shown in the figure:

In this case, the browser will start its work from a blank page.


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