Most web browsers let you change the home page to any website you choose. The home page can act as a default website that opens with your browser, but it can also function as a secondary bookmark.
How to Make a Home Page in Chrome
Changing the home page in Chrome is done through the settings. You can set a custom page to open when you open Chrome, or you can turn on the home button and then tie a specific web page to it so that it opens when you select it.
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Open Settings.
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Scroll down to the On startup section and select Open a specific page or set of pages.
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Select Add a new page.
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Enter the URL you want to appear when you open Chrome and select Add. You can also add additional pages if you desire.
How to Make a Home Page in Safari
Whether you're on Windows or Mac, you can change the Safari home page from the General preferences screen. Once you've changed it, you can access its link from the History menu.
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Go to Edit > Preferences in Windows, or Safari > Preferences if you're on a Mac.
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Select the General tab.
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Type a URL into the Homepage text box, or select Set to Current Page to do that.
For example, to make Google your home page, you'd type https://www.google.com.
To have the home page open when you launch new windows or tabs, change New windows open with and/or New tabs open with to be Homepage.
How to Make a Home Page in Edge
Like some browsers, Edge lets you pick two ways to use the home page: as the page (or pages) that opens when Edge opens, and as a link that can be accessed when you select Home.
To change the website(s) that opens when you launch Edge, open Settings:
These directions are for the Chromium-based Edge browser.
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In the upper-right corner of Edge, select the menu (three dots), and choose Settings.
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Select On startup from the left pane.
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Choose Open a specific page or pages.
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Select Add a new page.
You could instead select Use all open tabs to convert all your open web pages to home pages.
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Enter the URL of the page you want as your startup home page, and then select Add.
You can repeat those last two steps to make more Home pages.
Something else you can do is set the URL that's tied to the home button. The home button is located to the left of the navigation bar.
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Open Settings as described above, but this time open the Appearance tab from the left pane.
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Make sure Show home button is toggled on, and then enter a URL in the space provided.
How to Make a Home Page in Firefox
Follow these instructions to set or change your Firefox homepage on a desktop or laptop computer.
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With Firefox open, in the upper-right corner, select menu (three lines).
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Select Preferences/Options.
Alternatively, press Command+Comma (macOS) or Ctrl+Comma (Windows) to bring up preferences.
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From the left menu bar, select Home.
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In the Homepage and new windows drop down menu, select Firefox Home (Default), Custom URLs, or Blank Page.
How to Make a Home Page in Opera
The home page in Opera opens when the browser starts (i.e., there isn't a "home" option like there is in some browsers). To make your favorite website the home page, access the On startup option to set the URL.
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In the O menu, select Settings.
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Scroll down to the On startup section and choose Open a specific page or set of pages. Then, select Add a new page.
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Enter the URL you want to use as the Opera home page.
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Select Add to change the home page.
You can repeat these last two steps to add other pages as the home page so that all of them open each time Opera starts.
Why Set a Custom Home Page?
A home page isn't required, but you can set one if you find yourself revisiting the same site each time you open your browser. A home page can be anything, like a search engine, email client, social media page, free online game, etc.
While you can set the home page as your favorite search engine, changing the default search engine to Google or another website can make web searching even quicker.