Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer are the two most widely used web browsers. Most of us like to surf net, people normally open web sites like Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc or other favorite sites every time they use Internet. Normally people will open one site after another which takes time. In other way you can open your favorite sites or most used sites just by opening your web browser by setting multiple home pages.

The tabbed feature of Firefox and Internet Explorer enables us to open multiple sites at once. Using the same point we can set multiple home pages such that all will start when you open browser or press home button. It is very simple to set multiple home pages in Firefox and IE.

Setting Multiple Home Pages in Firefox

1) Open your Firefox web browser and Click on Tools menu and select Options.

2) In the options window choose Main tab, under startup section, select Show my home page option in When Firefox starts option.

3) In the home page text box enter the URLS of the site which you what to open with the Firefox start. You need to separate each URL with “|” or pipe symbol (shift + “\” key)

Eg: www.google.com|www.yahoo.com

4) You can also set your bookmarks as Firefox Startup home pages. Just click on the Use Bookmark button and select bookmarks that you want to set or select entire folder.

5) Click OK, close and open the Firefox web browser to see the multiple home pages open at a time inside Firefox.

Setting Multiple Home Pages in Internet Explorer

1) Open Internet Explorer and click on Tools menu and select Internet options.

2) Internet Explorer options window will open. Click on the General tab if it is not selected by default.

3) In this tab under Home page option you can enter the URLS of the sites that you want to set to open at IE startup.

4) Enter each URL in a separate line, Click on OK button when you are done.

Close and open Internet Explorer to see all the web sites that you have entered in the Home page section open in separate tabs.