Google Chrome - Set your homepage and startup page

Set your startup page

Have a new tab open

You can tell Chrome to open to a new tab page.

1. On your computer, open Chrome.
2. At the top right, click More .
3. Click Settings. (If you're using a Chromebook, click "Show advanced settings" at the bottom of the page.)
4. 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 off

You can tell Chrome to re-open the same pages you were looking at when you quit.

1. On your computer, open Chrome.
2. At the top right, click More .
3. Click Settings. (If you're using a Chromebook, click "Show advanced settings" at the bottom of the page.)
4. 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:

1. On your computer, open Chrome.
2. At the top right, click More .
3. Click Settings.
4. At the bottom of the page, click Show advanced settings.
5. Under the section "Privacy," click Content settings.
6. In the dialog that appears, under the section "Cookies," choose Keep local data only until you quit your browser.
7. 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 pages

You can tell Chrome to open to any webpage.

1. On your computer, open Chrome.
2. At the top right, click More .
3. Click Settings. (If you're using a Chromebook, click "Show advanced settings" at the bottom of the page.)
4. Under "On startup," click Open a specific page or set of pages.
5. Click Set pages.
6. Enter the web address of the page you want to see when you open Chrome.
7. Click OK.