I bet that customizing your computer is one of your favorite things to do. Setting your wallpaper, setting the theme of your choice, customizing your app pages, and whatnot. It turns out, that there are a lot of such customization options available with Google products, including Google Chrome! Bet you didn’t know, eh? How would you like Google Chrome to open your email inbox directly when you launch it? Or how would you like to pick up right where you left off when you relaunch Google Chrome? Read the article to learn how to customize the startup page in Google Chrome in both mobile and desktop versions.

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Difference between Home Page And Startup Page in Google Chrome

People often confuse Google chrome’s home page with the startup page. Yes, both are different.

The startup page(s) is/are what appears right when you open Google Chrome.

Google’s Home Page, on the other hand, opens up when you click on the home button left to your address bar (picture enclosed).

This little home button won’t appear unless you go and turn it on in the settings. Here’s how you do that :

How to show/hide Home button on Google Chrome?

STEP 1 – On your computer, open Google Chrome.

STEP 2 – If you look at the top right corner of the screen (right below the close button), you’ll notice three black dots. Click on the dots.

STEP 3 – A drop-down menu will appear, click on “Settings”.

STEP 4 – Keep scrolling down until you find an option called “Appearance”. Under this option, you’ll notice a toggle button called “Show Home Button”. Turn it on (it’ll turn from grey to blue). There you go, right after you do this, you’ll notice the home button appear on your screen.

STEP 5 – What this button does is, it takes you to a customized webpage or just a New Tab page (by default). You can choose where it takes you right below the option. Type in the site address if you want it to take you to your desired webpage.

How to change Startup Page in Google Chrome?

There are three types of customization that Google Chrome offers you when it comes to the Startup page.

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1. Have a New Tab open.
2. Continue right where you left off when you opened Chrome the last time.
3. Go to a specific webpage/webpages.

Follow the steps below and the last step will let you choose your type of customization.

STEP 1 – Open Google Chrome on your computer.

STEP 2 – Click on the three grey dots on the top right corner of the screen (below the close button).

STEP 3 – A drop-down menu will appear, click on “Settings”.

STEP 4 – Scroll down until you find the option called “On startup”.

STEP 5 – Under this option, you can customize the page that opens when you launch Google Chrome. You can have a New Tab open, or directly go to the webpage which was open the last time you used Chrome, or go to your desired webpage(s). Click on the appropriate option. Here’s a picture that shows you the options.

How to change Startup Page to specific pages in Google Chrome?

To add specific startup pages in chrome, first follow all the steps mentioned in above heading. When done executing the above steps, follow instructions mentioned below.

Step I: To allow specific page(s) to open with Chome startup, choose the option “Open a specific page or set of pages” (3^rd customization option). On choosing the same, you will find 02 additional options below that.

Step II: The option “Add a new page” requests you to type in the site URL (as shown in the picture below). On doing this, Chrome will directly open with the webpage entered when you launch it the next time.

Step III: The option “Use current pages” shows you the tabs open in the browser right at the moment. Choosing this option will open Chrome with the same tabs the next time you launch it. Here’s a picture for your better understanding.

Voila! You’ve now learned how to customize both your startup page and homepage on Chrome! Here’s a video from the search giant itself on the same.

How to Customize Startup Page in Google Chrome Mobile?

The mobile version of Google Chrome doesn’t have all the customization options that the desktop version has. It does have the homepage customization option though.

Unlike the desktop version, however, the mobile version has kind of combined both the startup page and homepage into one.

In the desktop version, you aren’t taken to your home page unless and until you click on the home button.

But in the mobile version, if you set a webpage as your homepage, Chrome directly displays the webpage right when you launch it. This, in other words, is the desktop version of the startup page.

Let’s see how we go about it.

STEP 1 – Open Google Chrome, tap on the three dots on the top right corner.

STEP 2 – Tap on the option called “Settings”.

STEP 3 – You’ll find an option called “Homepage”. Tap on it and turn it on (tapping on the toggle button).

STEP 4 – Right below the toggle button, you’ll see an option called “Open this page:” where you can type in the site URL of your desired site.

Phew! You can now change startup page in Google Chrome on both PC and mobile. You just got a little cooler than you were before reading this article!

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Video Courtsey: Google Help YouTube Channel

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