In the Opera browser, the default home page setting will take you to Opera Software’s website. You can change this setting to anything that you like in just a few short steps. In this tutorial you will learn how to make this change.

First, open your Opera 10 browser.

Click on Tools in your Opera menu, located at the top of your browser window. When the drop-down menu appears, choose Preferences….

Please note that you can utilize the following keyboard shortcut in lieu of clicking on the aforementioned menu item: CTRL + F12

Opera 10’s Preferences dialog should now be displayed, overlaying your browser window. First, click on the General tab if it is not already selected. Next, locate the section labeledHome page.

In the example above, the home page is set to http://portal.opera.com. To change your home page, simply replace this URL with the Web address of your choice.

If you would like to set the current page that you are viewing within Opera as your home page, click on the button labeled Use Current.

Now that you have changed Opera’s home page, verify that the address in the Home pagefield is correct. In the example above, I have set my home page to http://www.about.com.

Opera 10 gives you the ability to choose from a number of startup behavior options for your browser. If you would like your newly configured home page to load each time you launch your browser, select Start with home page from the Startup drop-down menu.

You have now configured your new home page as well as specified Opera 10’s startup behavior. In the example above, http://www.about.com will load each time I launch my browser.

Verify that these settings are correct and then click on the OK button to return to your main browser window.