Set Up Multiple Home Pages in IE or Firefox
When your browser windows opens, the first page displayed is called the “Home Page”. Most folks will set this to their email provider’s web portal, their favorite news site, or often leave it as the particular browser’s default page, i.e. MSN.
Arguably, one of the best features of modern browsers is the use of tabbed browsing, or opening multiple pages in the same browser window, which can be switched using a series of tabs at the top of the window. I’m sure most of you are aware of this feature, which can save a lot of time and desktop real estate.
Something many do not know about tabbed browsing is the ability to open multiple tabbed pages when the browser starts, in essence having more than one home page. For example, this is handy if you want to have available your web-based email, a search page and your social network of choice when your browser first opens.
In Internet Explorer, this is a very easy setting to configure. First, open each page you wish to use as a home page in a separate tab. Next, select Tools -> Internet Options. Here, the first option under the General settings is that of the home page. Just click the Use Current button, and click Okay. Once you close your browser and reopen it, you will be greeted with all the pages you selected.
In Firefox, the steps are essentially the same. Open up a bunch of tabs you want to use, then from the Tools menu, select Options. Under the Main settings, click the Use Current Pages button, hit Okay, then close and reopen the browser. That’s all there is to it!
