# For those of you annoyed at Chrome not having a "real" homepage on startup

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**Created:** [June 27, 2012, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-you-annoyed-at-chrome-not-having-a-real-homepage-on-startup/626435 "2012-06-27T06:46:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-you-annoyed-at-chrome-not-having-a-real-homepage-on-startup/626435/1 "2012-06-27T06:46:23Z")

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I was just toying around with the Chrome setting and I noticed a setting I’ve never seen before. I know a lot of people have complained about setting a “homepage” on Chrome just being a bookmark with a snazzy icon rather than an ACTUAL homepage, because it always opens up the New Tab page.

Wrench Icon -\> Settings -\> On Startup -\> Open a Specific Page or Set of Pages.

If you check that option and click on “change” you can set a for-realz homepage for whenever you open Chrome, or even a set of tabs for a homepage. I’d prefer to use “Continue where I left off”, but since a lot of people here seemed to be annoyed by the lack of a real homepage, there you go.