Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Multiple home pages for your browser

There are a few sites that I like to have open as soon as I turn on my computer. You can set your browser to automatically open up at number of sites you want. Thanks to Tim Moynihan and Wired Magazine, I have some clearly written directions to share with you.


How to do it in Chrome
1. Visit the Chrome Preferences menu.
2. Under “Settings,” find the “On startup” entry.
3. Check the button next to “Open a specific page or set of pages.”
4. Click the “Set pages” link next to that text.
5. Enter the URLs for all the pages you want to launch at browser startup.


How to do it in Firefox
1. First, open all the pages you want in separate tabs in a single browser window.
2. Visit the Firefox Preferences menu.
3. Under the “General” tab, click “Use Current Pages” under the Home Page section.


How to do it in Safari
1. Once again, open all the pages you want in separate tabs in a single browser window.
2. Select “Bookmarks” from the top menu bar and click “Add Bookmark Folder.”
3. Name the Bookmark Folder whatever you want.
4. Select “Bookmarks” from the top menu again and click “Add Bookmarks for These Tabs.”
5. Select the Bookmark Folder you named in step 3.
6. Select “Preferences” from the top menu bar.
7. Next to “New windows open with:” select “Choose tabs folder…”
8. Select the Bookmarks Folder you created in step 3.


How to do it in Internet Explorer
1. Open all the pages you want in separate tabs in a single browser window.
2. Visit the Tools menu (gear icon) and select “Internet Options.”
3. Under the “General” tab, click “Use current” under the Home Page section.

1 comment:

  1. AND I just found a couple of weeks ago a start page site called protopage. Have you heard of it?

    I made one for my 6th grade class with links that they will use often. It's very cool-it's like igoogle that went away. :)

    Shannon
    http://www.irunreadteach.wordpress.com

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