Open Multiple Home Pages with Mozilla Firefox OR Internet Explorer 7 – Video Tip

Now that Internet Explorer has caught up (sort of) with modern browsers, I wanted to point out yet another function of tabbed browsing (click here for the popular and informative tabbed browsing tip ). If you like to check multiple sites every day or maybe use your browsing sessions for research, let your browser do some of the work for you by opening multiple pages at the same time.

Mozilla Firefox

1. Open the first page you would like to see every time you start Firefox
2. Click File –> New –> Tab (or Ctrl + T) to open a new tab
3. Open the next page you want to see every time you start Firefox
4. Repeat steps 1-3 for as many pages as you want to open automatically
5. Click Tools –> Options from the menus
6. Click the "Main" button at the top of the options screen
7. Click "Use Current Pages" button in the Startup section
8. Click the OK button at the bottom of the screen

Internet Explorer 7 (IE7)

1. Open the first page you would like to see every time you start IE7
2. Click File –> New –> Tab (or Ctrl + T) to open a new tab, or click the new tab button next to the current tab
3. Open the next page you want to see every time you start IE7
4. Repeat steps 1-3 for as many pages as you want to open automatically
5. Click Tools –> Internet Options from the menus
6. Click "Current" button in the Home page section
7. Click the OK button at the bottom of the screen

OR after opening the tabs you want to set as your home pages:

1. Click the little arrow next to the "Home" icon on the toolbar
2. Click Add or Change home page
3. Click use current tab set as your home page
4. Click OK

Now when you start your browser, instead of being limited to just one page opening, you can get many. Watch the video below for further instruction and demonstration.

 

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One Response to “Open Multiple Home Pages with Mozilla Firefox OR Internet Explorer 7 – Video Tip”

1. Anonymous says:

   March 3, 2007 at 7:45 pm

   Fantastic tip, Rick. Thanks a million. Tips like this is why your readers hang out here on the world’s best (most helpful and newbie-friendly) computer website. As Ralph Kramden (aka Jackie Gleason) used to say on the Honeymooners, “Baby, you’re the greatest!” Well, Rick and Adam, you guys are the greatest! Keep up the wonderful work! I can’t wait to read your blogs on learning Linux, and becoming (in the words of one of your geekier readers) “Microsoft free.” Yes!!!!!!!!!!! (I shudder to think of how many times we could have gone out to dinner on all the money I’ve given to Bill Gates over the years.)
   And while I’m handing out praise (try not to get big heads, guys), I love your classes, too. Hanging out with “the oldies” is one of the most fun things we do every month. It makes me feel young. (Just kidding, there, fellow classmates, I AM an “oldie”, too! Hey,alert Paul Shanklin, that could be a song title!)
   Godspeed to you both, your radio show, your website, and your computer businesses.

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