Well, that’s exactly what this guide sets out to highlight. Whether you’re changing the home page to a search engine you prefer. Or if you just want it to navigate to a home page you frequent or one for work or a work-related intranet. This guide can show you how to set your home page to something more usable.
There will be one prerequisite, first
Now, the biggest challenge to overcome when trying to set a new or different home page in Google Chrome is obvious. Namely, the search giant has effectively removed access to the home button, to begin with, on desktop platforms. It did so several updates ago, too. So you might think it’s gone forever — although mobile users still have the UI. In order to get that back, you’ll want to follow our other guide — or learn to use keyboard shortcuts instead. If you choose to use the requisite keyboard shortcut instead, that’s going to vary depending on what system you use. But, for any system, inputting the shortcut will open up the home page in whatever tab you’re currently on.
For Windows and Linux, you’ll need to first press and hold the “Alt” key and then press the “Home” keyFor Mac users, the keyboard combination is a bit different. You’ll start by holding the “⌘” and “Shift” keys before pressing “h”For Chrome OS and Chromebook users, you’ll open straight to the home page by pressing and holding “Alt” and then by pressing “h”
Those shortcuts can be used instead of following the above-mentioned guide. So if you’re good at remembering keyboard shortcuts or writing that down, that’ll save you some effort.
Here’s how to set a new or different home page in Google Chrome on desktop or on a mobile phone
The process to change to a new home page will be slightly different on a computer versus a mobile phone in Chrome but similar enough that it shouldn’t cause any issues. And we’ll include images below for both and both sets of steps in our guide below too. Just as we do with our other how-to walkthroughs.
