Probably, the vast majority of novice users are tormented by the question of how to change the start page in their favorite browser. Understanding that the newcomer is afraid to press the mouse button again, let alone search for the appropriate settings, the developers of programs for viewing pages on the Internet prudently set the start page they need in their products. As a result, each time the browser is launched, the user is forced to watch ads from other developer products. In principle, this slight inconvenience is quite true, because the browser is free, and changing the start page is actually very easy.
It is much worse if the program for viewing pages is not downloaded from the developer's site, but from a third-party resource. Often, these browsers are made in the form of assemblies, that is, an experienced user took the program they liked as a basis, added the auxiliary programs needed, in his opinion, partially integrated them into the shell and menu. Although some programs prove to be very useful, most of them only take up free space on your hard drive. A striking example is Opera AC (currently support and development have been discontinued). Lovers of the Fire Fox (Firefox) can download the assembly with the installed add-ons, which, in fact, is very similar to the above AC. All would be fine, but newcomers who started using such assemblies often ask how to change the start page in Opera or Firefox. The fact is that the creators of assemblies write a link to their sites in the browser, thus receiving additional traffic. That is why there are so many who want to know how to change the start page by disabling or replacing this mess. Nevertheless, each user wants to make the homepage he likes exactly the page. Sometimes this is a search engine page, although browser developers took into account the wishes and created a convenient built-in mechanism for interacting with search engines; sometimes a news site; sometimes something else.
The answer to the question of how to change the start page is simple: you need to go into the settings and specify the desired page as the start page. Let us consider in more detail the procedure for popular browsers.
Opera most current version 12
You need to follow the menu path "settings - general settings - basic". In the “Home” window, you should specify the Internet address of the desired page, and select “Start from the home page” in the “When starting” drop-down menu. It should be noted that the express panel, which is actively being introduced in all modern browsers, deserves the closest attention. This is, indeed, a very convenient invention: when the browser starts, the user is prompted to select one of several windows, each of which is a link to a pre-selected page. In fact, the express panel is similar to the Windows quick launch panel .
Firefox version 15
The path is as follows: "menu - settings - settings - basic." Here you can specify the home page (it is also the start page) and select the appropriate action that is performed when Firefox starts. In this case, it is “Show Home Page”.
Google chrome
Open the menu, select "parameters - basic". Here the user can select the main page. Do not forget to confirm opening it every time you launch the browser.
These are only the most popular browsers. How to change the start page in the rest? Almost the same. Developers are gradually unifying the menus of their programs, so no difficulties should arise. The story is repeated with the Windows system: if earlier in DOS each program used its own key combination to exit, then with the advent of the Microsoft operating system the "exit" function was firmly fixed to the Esc button in the vast majority of applications.