How to Set Your Homepage in Chrome, Firefox and Edge

Your homepage is the first thing your browser shows you, so it sets the tone for every session. Most people leave it on whatever the browser or a software installer chose. Changing it takes a minute, and the right homepage gets you to your first task faster.

Three settings, not one

Browsers split “the first page you see” into three settings:

This guide covers the first two. For the third, see how to change your new tab page, and for how the three differ in practice, what is a new tab page.

Set your homepage in Chrome

Startup page:

1. Open Settings (chrome://settings).
2. Click On startup.
3. Choose Open a specific page or set of pages, then Add a new page and enter the address.

Home button:

1. In Settings, click Appearance.
2. Turn on Show home button.
3. Choose the custom address option and enter your homepage.

Set your homepage in Firefox

1. Open Settings (about:preferences) and choose Home.
2. Next to Homepage and new windows, choose Custom URLs and enter the address.
3. To open several pages, separate addresses with a vertical bar: https://example.com|https://example.org.
4. To show the Home button, right-click the toolbar, choose Customize Toolbar and drag the Home icon into place.

In Firefox, the homepage also opens when the browser starts if Open previous windows and tabs is turned off.

Set your homepage in Edge

1. Open Settings (edge://settings) and choose Start, home, and new tabs.
2. Under When Edge starts, choose Open these pages and add the address.
3. Under Home button, turn on Show home button on the toolbar and enter the address.

Restore your previous tabs instead?

If you’d rather pick up where you left off, choose Continue where you left off (Chrome), Open previous windows and tabs (Firefox) or Open tabs from the previous session (Edge). You can still keep a homepage for the Home button. If you rely on restoring tabs, a session manager such as Super Session Manager adds named sessions you can restore even after a crash.

What makes a good homepage?

A homepage should get you to your first task quickly, not pull you into reading. A good one has:

• A search bar at the top.
• Your daily links, a short curated list rather than a grid of most-visited sites.
• Today’s plan: a to-do list or calendar. Our 5-minute daily planning routine shows how to use it.
• Glanceable information you actually use, such as the weather or a world clock.

CentPage was built as exactly this kind of homepage: a multi-engine search bar, 18+ curated categories of popular sites, your own custom bookmark table and widgets such as To Do List, Calendar, Weather and Clock & Timer. To use it, set https://www.centpage.com/homepage as your startup page and Home button address, and install the extension for Chrome or Firefox if you want the same page on every new tab too.

Our browser start page guide explains how to choose between start page styles, from minimal to dashboard.

If your homepage keeps changing

Software installers and some extensions change your homepage without asking. If it keeps reverting:

1. Open your browser’s extensions page and remove anything you don’t recognise.
2. In Chrome, look for a note under the setting saying it’s controlled by an extension.
3. Run your browser’s Reset settings option as a last resort; it restores defaults without deleting bookmarks or passwords.