How To Change Homepage For Mac



We'll show you how to automatically open any web page you want when you launch Firefox or click the Home button .

  1. How To Change Homepage For Mac
  2. Make A Home Page
  3. How To Change Homepage For Microsoft Edge

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  • 2Set your home page through Firefox optionspreferences
  1. Open the web page you want to use as your home page.
  2. Drag and drop that tab onto the Home button on your toolbar (it's on the left side by default).
  3. Click on the prompt to set this page as your home page.
  1. Click the menu button and select ..
  2. Choose the General panel.


  • The default Startup setting for When Firefox starts is to show your home page. You can also choose to have Firefox show a blank page or to show your windows and tabs from your last session.
  • You can set multiple pages as your home page. Open each page in a separate tab and click on under Home page.
  1. For Safari the Preferences menu is in the Gear icon on the right of the URL bar. Click that & you'll see the option for Preferences. From there go to the General tab & you'll see the area to change the home page.
  2. How do I change the homepage or start page on my macbook? I'm kinda sick of seeing the Apple Start Page every time I go online.
  3. This wikiHow teaches you how to set Google as your Homepage on Mac. The way you set a homepage depends on the web browser your are using. The following steps will show you how to set Google as your homepage using Safari, Chrome, and Firefox.

Others users unable to change or set a homepage in Safari have found. And then restarting normally restored their ability to choose a homepage. This Mac 911 article is in response to a question.

How To Change Homepage For Mac
  1. Click the menu button and select ..
  2. Click the Home panel.
  3. Click the menu next to Homepage and new windows and choose to show the default Firefox Home page, custom URLs or a blank page.

Set multiple pages as your home page

You can set a group of pages as your home page. Open each page in a separate tab, select Custom URLs… in the Homepage and new windows drop-down menu and click on .

If you want to delete your home page customizations, this is how to do it:

  1. Click the menu button and select ..
  2. Select the General panel.
  3. Under Home page, click .
  4. Close the about:preferences page. Any changes you've made will automatically be saved.

We have solutions:

  • If you keep getting the 'Firefox has just updated' tab every time Firefox starts, see the article Firefox says it's just updated every time it starts - how to fix.
  • If your home page settings are not saved, see How to fix preferences that won't save.
  • If you can't see the Home button, have a look at Customize Firefox controls, buttons and toolbars.
  • If your home page was hijacked or automatically changed, see Remove a toolbar that has taken over your Firefox search or home page.
  • If a page keeps opening even after you've removed a third-party toolbar and restored your home page, see Wrong home page opens when I start Firefox - How to fix.
  • An extension may be controlling your home page. For more information, see An extension changed my New Tab page.
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  • You can change your homepage in Google Chrome to your favorite website by going through the browser's Settings menu.
  • You'll also want to make sure that Google Chrome's 'Show home button' feature is switched on.
  • It's important to note that your Google Chrome homepage isn't the page that opens when you start Google Chrome.
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Whether you'd prefer your homepage to be your email inbox or your favorite news site, it's easy to make the change in Google Chrome.

It's important to note, however, that your homepage is different than your startup page. Your homepage is the site connected to the house icon in the top toolbar, but the startup page is what appears when you launch Chrome.

Here's how to change your homepage in Google Chrome, for both Mac and PC.

How To Change Homepage For Mac

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1. Open Google Chrome on your desktop.

2. From any webpage, click the three circles at the far-right side of the top toolbar.

3. Click 'Settings.'

4. This will bring you to your Chrome settings. Click on the 'Appearance' tab in the right sidebar.

5. The second option on this page will read 'Show home button' and have a switch. First, make sure this switch is turned on. If it's not, click the toggle to change it from gray to blue.

6. Once the feature is turned on, change the homepage from the default 'New Tab page' to a custom web address. Click the second circle and enter the website of your choice.

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Make A Home Page

Your new homepage will be saved automatically.

The Home button will now be at the top of every Chrome window, to the left of the search bar. Clicking on this icon - it looks like the outline of a house - will bring you to the website you set as your homepage.

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