Change the Default
Home Page
Chrome gives you several choices for what you see when you
start it up. You may decide that you want to always open with
the Google home page or you may want to show a selection of
your most visited sites. All of these options are accessed through
Options > Settings > On Startup.
Open the New Tab Page
❱ This option will display a grid of eight website thumbnails. Each
thumbnail relates to one of your eight most visited web pages.
Click on any of the thumbnails to go to the page. You can remove
any of the thumbnails by hovering the mouse pointer over it and
then clicking the X that appears in the top right corner.
Continue Where I Left Off
❱ If this option is enabled, Chrome will always start up showing
the website and tabs you were viewing when you last closed the
browser. If you close all of the open tabs individually, rather than
clicking the X at the top right to close the entire browser window,
when you open Chrome again it will display the New Tab page.
Open a Specific Page or Set of Pages
❱ You can use this option to set a single web page to open
whenever you start Chrome. This could be the Google home
page for your country, the Facebook login or any other web page
you choose. You can also choose a set of pages to open. Click Set
Pages and enter the URLs of the sites you want to open. They will
each open in a separate tab when you start Chrome.Show the Home
Button
When you first install and use Chrome, you will probably
notice that there is no Home button in the toolbar. We
don’t really understand why Google chose to hide the
Home button but you can activate it easily, so it’s not
too much of a problem. To activate the Home button,
click the Options button and select Settings. Under the
Appearance heading, check the box next to Show Home
Button. You can choose which page is displayed when the
Home button is clicked (the New Tabs page or another of
your choice).Customising the Chrome Browser