Each of us uses the browser daily. There is nothing surprising in this - just in order to be able to view web pages, download pictures, videos, audio and other media content, you must have at least one browser installed on your computer.
Homepage
Each program that we use for surfing has several basic options that do not change depending on the platform with which we work. Safari, Chrome, Opera and Internet Explorer - all browsers have a so-called home page.
Judging by the name, we can say that this is the base site with which the user will interact. It will open every time the browser itself launches. At the same time, the Internet visitor can set as such a single page, or several - depending on how it is more convenient for him. āHomeā will be the one that we see first of all after the opening of the program.
Why do you need to do this setup? And judge for yourselves: often we are interested in not spending our time āVKontakteā aimlessly, but quickly finding the information we are interested in. Which page will open immediately after launching the browser, and determines how quickly we complete our work. Therefore, based on specific tasks, each visitor to online sites should set their own āstart-upā site, having previously indicated the address of the home page. Yandex will be either Google or any other resource - it depends solely on the user's preferences and how he will be more comfortable. In the options of browsers there is even such an item as ārestore recent sitesā. That is, pages that were closed before the application terminated.
Why Yandex?
You found our article because you were looking for how to make Yandex a homepage. In this paragraph, we list some of the advantages of this portal, which cannot be found in other major search engines, including Google.
So, first of all, Yandex developers launched two versions of their portal, designed for different purposes. One of them is the āfastā search engine āYa.ruā, which is focused on the most expedited and convenient search for information of interest. For example, visiting it, you can easily find the information you need without being distracted by anything outside. The second version of the site is a full-fledged Yandex portal with all its advertising blocks, weather and traffic information, mail and so on. The second portal is convenient in that you can configure it in such a way as to see alerts from all projects of interest to you. It really individualizes your work with this resource, makes it more comfortable and productive. So how to make Yandex a homepage? We assure you that this can be achieved in a few clicks.
Method number 1. Manual tuning
The classic is the method during which you must specify the data about the site you are interested in manually in the settings of your browser. This is done simply: open the settings section, find there the item that contains information about your āstartā (as it is also called). Next, you will see the url in front of you. By changing it, you will install what you need. Therefore, there is nothing complicated in making Yandex the homepage: just find the necessary items in your settings.
Method number 2. Link on the site
A simplified approach involves installing a home page directly through a search engine website. Again, this is done easily: go to Yandex, then look at the top section of the site. Here you will see the link āMake start pageā. Click on it, after which a dialog box will appear in the browser asking you to change the home page. In fact, you only need two clicks for this.
Again, as you can see, the instructions on how to fix the Yandex home page are very simple. You can use any of the indicated methods at your discretion.
Method number 3. Installing third-party programs
The third method by which your āstart-upā can be changed is an automatic installation through the application that comes with the Yandex package.
You probably saw that when installing any software, the system offers you, by placing checkmarks, to make a number of settings on your computer: define this or that site as the home page, download some kind of ātoolbarā from Yandex, and much more. Of course, we remove these obsessive checkmarks so as not to clog the system. And, by the way, in this way you can set the site you want to āstartā.
It is enough just not to uncheck the checkboxes so that the data packet is loaded in full.
Change page
Various developers have been practicing this technique for a very long time. It consists in āimposingā the user their commercial software without obtaining additional consent on his part. This can lead to the fact that your previous page will be replaced by a new site, which will violate your settings and make the work less comfortable. You can deal with this in the same way as making Yandex the home page. Just define the desired site as a āstartā again.
Additions to Yandex
Of course, you canāt say that this service is also not āintrusiveā - add-ons (the famous Yandex.Bar, for example) also cause a lot of inconvenience to users who did not notice the check mark while loading other programs.
They "climb" onto our screen from all sides, imposing other services from the Russian search engine. Perhaps, at some point it is really convenient, but judging by the reviews on various forums, people do not like that they are āforcedā to change their browser page.
For example, there is an add-on that says: āThe homepage has changed.ā āYandex.Zaschitnikā - thatās what it is called and, in fact, simply serves to ensure that you do not change your āstart-upā from Yandex to another service. If you download software that can really make some kind of extraneous settings that pose a threat to your PC, such a āprotectorā will be very useful. On the other hand, he himself ātiesā us to Yandex resources. For this reason, in our opinion, it is better to refuse it. And in how to return the Yandex homepage even after you accidentally change it, we do not see anything complicated - this is a repeat of the procedure already described above.