Choosing a Startup Page

In Firefox, the Startup Page is the page that appears when you first open up the browser.

By default, your Home Page is your Statup Page. 

You can change this, however. You have choices as to what you’d like to see first.

To watch a video, click the “Play Video” button below. Or, scroll down for step-by-step instructions with screenshots:

 

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Step-by-Step Intructions with Screenshots

To view the options available to you, go to the top of your Firefox browser, and click Tools > Options:

 

 

The “Options” window will appear.

We want to focus on the highlighted area shown below:

 

 

As you can see, the Home Page is set to be the Startup Page.

To see your other options, click on the dropdown menu. It will look like the following:

 

 

You have two other options:

  • Show a blank page – Choose this to have a blank browser window when Firefox starts up.
  • Show my windows and tabs from last time – Choose this to have the tabs and windows from your last browsing session open at startup. For example, if you had 3 tabs open the last time you shutdown Firefox, those same 3 tabs will be open when you startup again.

Choose whichever option suits you best and click the “OK” button.

You’re done!