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Google Chrome - Set your homepage and startup page
You can customize Google Chrome to open any page for the homepage or startup page. These two pages aren't the same unless you set them to be.
- Your startup page is the one that shows when you first launch Chrome on your computer.
- Your homepage is the one you go to when you click Home.
Set your startup page
Have a new tab openYou can tell Chrome to open to a new tab page.
- On your computer, open Chrome.
- At the top right, click More
.
- Click Settings. (If you're using a Chromebook, click "Show advanced settings" at the bottom of the page.)
- Under "On startup," select Open the New Tab page.
By default, the new tab page shows Google's logo, a search bar, and thumbnails of your most visited sites. You can choose a fun theme for your new tab page instead, though.
Continue where you left offYou can tell Chrome to re-open the same pages you were looking at when you quit.
- On your computer, open Chrome.
- At the top right, click More
.
- Click Settings. (If you're using a Chromebook, click "Show advanced settings" at the bottom of the page.)
- Under "On startup," select Continue where you left off.
Your cookies and data are saved, so any websites you were logged into before (like Gmail, for example) will open again. If you don't want to be automatically signed in to these pages, follow the steps below:
- On your computer, open Chrome.
- At the top right, click More
.
- Click Settings.
- At the bottom of the page, click Show advanced settings.
- Under the section "Privacy," click Content settings.
- In the dialog that appears, under the section "Cookies," choose Keep local data only until you quit your browser.
- Click Done.
Note: If you're on a Chromebook, your tabs won't restore when you close and reopen the Chrome browser. To continue where you left off, restart your Chromebook.
Open a specific set of pagesYou can tell Chrome to open to any webpage.
- On your computer, open Chrome.
- At the top right, click More
.
- Click Settings. (If you're using a Chromebook, click "Show advanced settings" at the bottom of the page.)
- Under "On startup," click Open a specific page or set of pages.
- Click Set pages.
- Enter the web address of the page you want to see when you open Chrome.
- Click OK.
You can control what page appears when you click in the top left of your screen the Home button.
- On your computer, open Chrome.
- At the top right, click More
.
- Select Settings.
- Under "Appearance," check the box Show Home button.
- Below "Show Home button," click Change to choose your homepage.
The Home button will appear to the left of your address bar.