So, in this article, we will consider how to make your favorite site, search engine or service a start page in Mozilla browser Firefox. As an example, I will take, as always, home page search engine Yandex.

After you set it up, you can. After that, all hyperlinks in mail or documents will immediately open in your favorite web browser.

We make a start page in a couple of clicks

We open our favorite site in a new tab, in my case it is Yandex. Drag this tab with the mouse to the "House" icon. We look at the screenshot:

This is how you can quickly make a home page in Mozilla. However, the home one is the one that opens when you click on the “House”, and the start one is the one that opens when the browser starts. Therefore, if you need the latter, read on.

Making a start page using Mozilla Firefox browser settings

Click on the menu button in the upper right corner and select "Settings" from the drop-down list.

Immediately in the "Basic" tab, we indicate that "When firefox launch” the home page was shown, and in the field below you indicate the site you need. In my case, this is Yandex, which is still there after using the first method.

The start page is what you see when you open your web browser. Some users prefer to set the address of the search engine as the start page, while others prefer a personal profile on the social network.

Settings

Naturally, in the settings of the browser itself there is already a parameter that allows you to change start page in mozilla, and you don't need to use a third-party software. The procedure is performed in just a few clicks, namely:

1. Launch browser.
2. Open the browser menu by clicking on the button with the image of three parallel lines on the toolbar.
3. Select "Settings".
4. Go to the "General" section.

On this page, we are interested in two options. The first of them is the line “When FireFox starts”, where you need to select the parameter responsible for opening the Firefox start page, and not the last opened tabs. The second parameter is "Home Page" where you should enter a link to the desired website. Use the "Use current page" and "Use bookmark" buttons if the desired site is currently open in a tab or added to the favorites list, respectively. How this whole procedure is performed, I displayed in the following image:

Advice! If you want the standard Firefox start page to be displayed, then simply remove the link from the "Home Page" item or click on the "Restore Default" button.

drag and drop

There is another way that allows you to set the site you need as the initial one, so that it is displayed when the browser starts. This is done by dragging the active tab onto the Home button, which is located on the Firefox toolbar. After you release the left mouse button, the browser will ask if you really want to change the start page in the mozilla - you only need to confirm this action by pressing the corresponding button:

Now, when you open the browser and click the "Home" button on the toolbar, the desired site will open.

Important! Some software makes changes to the browser shortcut on the desktop.

If you were looking for how to customize the start page in Mozilla precisely because some application changed this setting, it would not be out of place to check the FireFox shortcut on the desktop:

1. Click on it right click mice.
2. Select "Properties".
3. In the "Object" line, check for the added address to a third-party website that you want to delete.

Here are ways to change starting address in the browser. Each of them is equally effective, and can replace the others.

When you first start Firefox, click the home button or create a new window you"re greeted with the home page. The default Firefox home page contains a handy default engine web search and quick links to downloads, bookmarks, history, add-ons, Sync and settings.Also, if you had tabs open the last time you used Firefox, you can restore them from the home page with a single click.

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How do I get the Firefox home page?

The default Firefox setting is to show you the Firefox home page when you start Firefox, click the home button or open a new window.

If you don't see this page when you start Firefox, click the home button or open a new window, you can restore the default setting like this:

Note: For more information about home page settings including how to change it to something else, see How to set the home page .

Access downloads, bookmarks, history, add-ons, Sync and settings from the home page

The default home page includes the following buttons at the bottom of the page:

• Downloads: Click here to open the list of your in the library window.
• Bookmarks: This opens your bookmarks in the library window. See Bookmarks in Firefox for more information.
• history: This opens your browsing history in the library window. See Delete browsing, search and download history on Firefox and How do I remove a single website from my history? for more information.
• Addons: Quickly access the add-ons manager. For more information, see Find and install add-ons to add features to Firefox .
• sync: Click here to set up Sync and take your tabs and bookmarks with you. See How do I set up Sync on my computer? for details.
• options: Preferences: Quickly access Firefox Options Preferences .

Restore your tabs and windows from the last time you used Firefox

If you had tabs and windows open when you closed Firefox, the default Firefox home page will have a Restore Previous Session button. To get your tabs and windows back, just click it.

Different people have different ideas about what a launch page should look like, and this is something that happens quite often. Luckily, users can customize the start page Mozilla Firefox according to your own taste.

start page- this is what you see immediately after launching the Firefox Mozilla browser (Figure 1). Configuration can be done both with standard browser resources and with the help of special extensions.

You can also create your own custom welcome page. Next, we will look at what exactly needs to be done to complete the configuration.

Figure 1 - Initial Mozilla page Firefox

Default Mozilla Firefox start page setup

To customize the Mozilla Firefox homepage in the usual way you need to go to the settings window. To do this, click on the icon in the upper right corner and in the menu that appears, click on the “Settings” icon (Figure 2).

Figure 2 - Customizing the Mozilla Firefox Welcome Page

In the window that opens, you will need to go to the "Basic" tab (Figure 3). The "When Firefox starts" field has three different options, which determine how the Mozilla Firefox start page will look.

1. Display home page. You can use any site of your choice, bookmark or currently open page. To return to initial settings select "Restore Default" in the "Home Page" section.
2. Show a blank page when the browser is opened.
3. Open sites that were viewed during the last session of working with Mozilla Firefox.

Figure 3 - Customizing the Mozilla Firefox Welcome Page

Your own way to customize the home page of the Mozilla Firefox browser
You can use the file from your computer as the browser start page. Create your own unique design. To do this, using the editor WYSIWYG can be generated special code and save it to a file on your computer. Next, you need to open the created file in the browser. You will see a link that looks something like this - file:///C:/Page_1.html. Enter this link in the settings section home page and click "Save" (Figure 4). As a result, you will receive your personal creation as the initial page of the Mozilla Firefox browser.

Figure 4 - Setting up the Mozilla Firefox welcome page

You can also download and install special add-ons. They are designed to transform the Mozilla Firefox start page as much as possible. A good extension is FVD SpeedDials. You can download it from the Firefox store, which is located at https://addons.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ . After installation, the home page will look like (Figure 5).

Figure 5 - FVD SpeedDials

As you can see, there are many ways to quickly and easily customize the Mozilla Firefox start page to your liking.

The Mozilla Firefox start page is the page that opens when the program starts, and many users periodically need to change the so-called home page in their favorite browser. Mozilla Firefox is the second most popular browser among Internet users. This program is now available for use on many devices and different operating systems(from desktop to smartphone, from Windows to Android).

The Firefox home page is a very important element and the fact that the home page address changes due to a virus or loss of settings is very annoying for many users. Also, you may encounter the installation of the start page in case new installation browser or when switching to a new profile.

V this manual we'll figure out how:

• create or change home page in Mozilla Firefox
• set your favorite site as the home page, for example, Yandex.ru, Mail.ru, Google.ru or any other.

How to make a home page in Firefox?

Launch Firefox, if it is not already running, and go to the menu item "Settings"

Then on the "Basic" tab, focus on the "Launch" section. In order for your favorite site to open when you start your browser, in the "When Firefox starts" item, "Show home page" should be indicated, and in the next "Home page" item, specify the address (URL), for example, copied from the Firefox address bar, the start pages.

In new versions Firefox settings are saved automatically after changing the parameters, but in older versions it was necessary to save the settings by pressing the corresponding button.

After that, you can close the Mozilla Firefox window and, by starting the program again, you will see that the configured home page will open.

How easy is it to make Yandex.ru the start page?

A quick way to make Yandex the home page is to go to the site by entering the address yandex.ru in address bar, and on the page of the popular Russian search engine that opens, click on the "Set as homepage" link in the upper left corner.

Is it possible to make the Firefox home page open?

If you have some page open in the tab and you want to make it home, then you can go to the home page settings at startup Firefox browser, as mentioned above, and click the "Use current pages" and the address of the open site will be substituted in the "Home page" field.

Is it possible to bookmark a home page in Firefox?

Yes, you can, if you have bookmarked (or also called Favorites) a site that you want to set as your home page. To do this, you again need to go to the settings and click the "Use bookmark" button and select the desired site from the bookmark tree, as shown in the photo.