Internet Explorer<\/h2>\n
First, go to the page you want to set as your home page. For example: https:\/\/www.google.com\/ (Google).<\/p>\n
Now click \u201cTools\/Internet Options\u201d. Assuming you only want one page to open when you open your browser… \u00a0clear any web addresses (URLs)\u00a0showing the home page box by highlighting them and deleting them.<\/p>\n
Next, in the dialog which appears click the button that says \u201cUse Current\u201d (See screen shot below):<\/p>\n
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ABOVE: “Use Current” means the page you have open in Internet Explorer at the time you click “Use current”. Make sure you only have one page open when you do this. If you want Google as your home page, for example, make sure you’re on the Google home page when you click “Use current”.<\/p>\n
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Chrome<\/h2>\n
Open your Chrome browser.<\/p>\n
Go to https:\/\/www.google.com\/<\/a> (Google home page)<\/p>\n Click the Chrome Tools icon (top right \u2013 three vertical dots … see below):<\/p>\n Then click “Settings” (see below):<\/p>\n Under the heading \u201cOn startup\u201d (see below):<\/p>\n Click \u201cSet pages\u201d (as shown above) then click the \u201cUse current pages\u201d button ( see below) and then click OK.<\/strong><\/p>\n Now close Chrome and reopen it, Google will be your home page.<\/p>\n Click Tools\/Options on the menu bar and click \u201cUse Current Page\u201d and then OK.<\/p>\n Microsoft figures the best way to keep your start page one of theirs (MSN or BING) it so make a ritual of changing your home page so:<\/p>\n Don’t let Microsoft brow beat you into use Bing or MSN. Be intrepid, change your Edge home page to something YOU want, not something Microsoft wants.<\/p>\n The fastest way to correct this intrusion on your right to choose is to set Chrome, Firefox or even Internet Explorer as your default browser. But if you really love Microsoft Edge, here you go:<\/p>\n With Edge open, click the Options icon (three dots, like an ellipse) then click Settings (see below):<\/p>\n In the Settings dialog, tick the circle next to “A specific page or pages”. \u00a0Here’s where Microsoft gets sneaking. Right below that you have to use the down arrow to select “Custom” \u00a0then type in the URL (web address) you want as your start page in the box that says “Enter a web address”. \u00a0But wait, there’s more. If you don’t click the Plus sign + next just to the right of “Enter a web address” before you close the Settings dialog, you’re changes will not be saved. So clicking the Plus + is very important.<\/p>\n Below we’ve enlarged the “Custom” dialog so you can see that MSN and Bing are listed first and second:<\/p>\n If you want to remove your home page in Edge, click the X next to Web address (highlighted above). If you want to add another home page, type its web address and click the Plus sign.<\/p>\n We hope this helps all of you who would wanted to know how to set a home page \/ start page in your browser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How to set a home page in your favorite browser A browser home page, also called a start page, is the page (or pages) you see when you open your browser, We strongly suggest not setting more than one or two pages to open when you start your browser. If you use more than one or two home\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,1433,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10185"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13029,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10185\/revisions\/13029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/chromeset.png\")
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\nFirefox<\/h2>\n
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\nMicrosoft Edge<\/h2>\n
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