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With more people using web-based email programs, like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Outlook Online, and also needing to do searches or view the news, they find themselves opening up multiple tabs once they open their browser. Wouldn’t it be nice if those tabs opened up automatically for you when you open your browser? Let me tell you how to do this in Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Chrome.

In Microsoft Edge,

• Click the three dots at the upper right of the browser.
• From the drop down menu, click Settings. 
• Under the “Open with” options, click the button next to “A specific page or pages”.
• Click in the box just under that option. Click on Custom. You can remove any websites that are there by clicking on the X to the right of them and you can add new websites to open by adding them in the box showing “Enter a web address”, such as http://www.google.com or mail.google.com. Click the + to add it to the list.

In Internet Explorer,

• Click on Tools (gear) at the upper right of the browser.
• From the drop down menu, click on Internet Options.
• Under the General tab, there is a Home Page box. Enter each of the website addresses you want to open in this box, each on their own line.
• Click OK to save and close.

In Firefox,

• Click on the three horizontal lines at the upper right of the browser.
• From the drop down menu, click on Options.
• On the “General” page, choose “Show my home page” When Firefox starts.
• In the “Home Page” box,  enter the addresses of sites separated by a pipe | (a key usually above the enter key on the keyboard). Or, you can open up all the sites in tabs and hit the “Use Current Pages” button.
• Close that tab and they should all save.

In Safari,

• Open a new Safari window.
• Create tabs and open all of the websites you’d like to start Safari with.
• Open the Bookmarks menu and select “Add Bookmarks for These X Tabs”.
• Add a name for the bookmarks folder, like Start Pages.
• Open the Safari menu and select “Preferences”.
• Click on the General tab.
• Select “A new window” from the “Safari open  with” setting.
• Select “Choose tabs folder” from the “New windows open with” setting.
• Select the folder you just created in the window that appears. The next time you open Safari, these tabs will start automatically.

In Chrome,

• Click on the three horizontal lines at the upper right of the browser.
• From the drop down menu, click on Settings.
• In the “On startup” section, click the button next to “Open a specific page or set of pagers”.
• Click on Set pages to the right of that option.You can remove any websites that are there by clicking on the X to the right of them and you can add new websites to open by adding them in the box showing “Enter URL…”, such as http://www.google.com or mail.google.com. Repeat as desired to open multiple pages when starting Google Chrome. Or, you can open up all the sites in tabs and hit the “Use Current Pages” button.
• When done, click OK. You can then close out of the Settings tab.

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