How to setup multiple home pages in Firefox and IE

Posted on March 26, 2008 at 6:11 am

I love browsing the Internet! In fact, I love it so much that when I start my browser, I need multiple pages to load up instead of just one! Of course, I could use a start page like Only2Clicks or Speed Dial, which allows me to access my favorites sites by simply clicking on them, but it’s not the same as having multiple home pages.

So how do you get multiple pages to load into individual tabs each time you open up Firefox and IE? It’s actually pretty simple and I’m sure you’ll love it! Now I would suggest you not go overboard like I just did and setup 10 different home pages because Firefox will eat up all of our memory very quickly!

How to setup multiple home pages in Firefox

First off, go to Tools, and then Options from the top menu. Click on the Main or General tab.

Now there are two ways you can setup multiple home pages in Firefox, an easy way and a more manual way. The manual way is to simply type bother URLs into the Home Page text box and separate them with the “|” or pipe symbol. The pipe symbol is usually above the Enter key on the keyboard.

So if I wanted to have Google.com and Yahoo.com both set as startup home pages, I would type in the following:

http://www.google.com|http://www.yahoo.com

So your screen should look like this with the multiple URLs in the Home Page box:

And that’s it! Now when you open a new instance of Firefox, both of the tabs will appear! Sweet! Now there’s also an easier method of doing the same thing and that is to Use Bookmark.

Basically, if you have a folder of bookmarks in Firefox and you want to set all of them as your startup home pages, just click the Use Bookmark button and select the entire folder.

Whichever bookmarks you have stored in that folder will automatically be placed into the Home Page text box separated by the pipe symbol. So you can use either method to get multiple start pages in Firefox!

How to setup multiple home pages in IE

Adding more than one site to your start up home pages in IE is also super easy! Basically, go to the site you want to add and then click on the down arrow next to the Home Page icon in IE that’s to the right hand side:

When you click on that, you’ll get the option to change your current home page to the new page or to simply add this webpage to your home page tabs.

Obviously, choose the second option and now you’ll get multiple tabs appear when you start up Internet Explorer also!

Remember to be judicious with this feature as it can be very annoying since every time you click on the Home Page button, all of the sites you specified will open up in different tabs! I would suggest a maximum of 3, with 2 probably being the best. Enjoy!

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10 Responses to “How to setup multiple home pages in Firefox and IE”

Joe boomer said on : April 27th, 2008 at 11:11 am

Already knew this trick, but it’s good that you’re sharing this with others. Firefox is a very powerful tool!

boof bonser said on : April 27th, 2008 at 7:16 pm

There’s actually an easier way in Firefox, you just have the tabs open to what you want as home pages and click the ‘use current pages’ button. It’s in your first screenshot.

Rybec said on : April 27th, 2008 at 7:28 pm

Actually, there’s three ways in Firefox.
You can also open all the pages you want to open at start as tabs, then click the “Use Current Pages” button in the options box.

Geoserv said on : April 27th, 2008 at 8:36 pm

STUMBLED!

I dodn’t know this, thanks for the tip.

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mmg1818 said on : May 21st, 2008 at 11:16 am

Thank you.

Nina Lewis said on : November 4th, 2008 at 11:05 am

I didn’t know you could have multiple homepages set. This is wonderful!!! Thank you so much.

Oliver L. said on : January 15th, 2009 at 11:07 am

You wrote: “The manual way is to simply type bother URLs into the Home Page text box and separate them with the “|” or pipe symbol.”

I think you meant “both” (not “bother”)? But good hint(s) anyway, although I was looking for something for Safari.

Magneticcanvas said on : March 12th, 2009 at 11:39 am

An even better idea would be to create multiple multiple-page-loads that way, when you need all your social network sites, they will load automatically on one window in different tabs. And the same for all your e-mail accounts, services, stores, personal interests. So does anyone know how to do this?

Noxmoony said on : May 26th, 2009 at 11:04 am

Hey thanks for sharing the info mate. I didn’t even know that a pipe symbol even existed. Man..thanks a lot.

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