How to set a default Homepage of your browser?

• Homepage is the first page that opens when you enter the URL of website. All the browsers give you option of setting the default homepage for your browser.Which means when you open your browser window that particular page is going to be opened without any user action.
  
  Various browsers have different way to set homepage. I am listing the procedure to set homepage for two popular browsers
  
  Internet Explorer 7.0 and 6.0
  
• Open Browser window
• Click on Tools Menu >> Internet Options
  (In windows vista you have click Alt key to see the Menu options)
  You should see the window as shown below

Now just type in the URL of the website that you want to open by default and you are done.
In IE 7.0 you can type several URL each URL will open in its respective Tab.

Firefox 2.0

• Open Browser window
• Click on Tools Menu >> Options menu
  You should see the screen as below

Just enter the URL of the website you want to open as Homepage
In both the browsers you will see some buttons that perform a particular task

• Use Current Page: If you want to make the current webpage that you have opened as you default homepage just click this button
• Use Blank: Will set the homepage to blank which mean no webpage is going to open
• Use Bookmark (In Firefox): If you have added something in your favourites then you can add that as your homepage.
• Reset Default (IE)/Restore to Default (FF): Reset to what it was with OS default settings which is Microsoft page in case of IE and Mozilla page in case of FF
  

Why this information is important?

This is important because there are bad guys who can take advantage of these setting and set the default page to a porn site or a site that contains virus. So, whenever you get a prompt saying

"Do you want to add this website into your favourites or Set as Homepage?"

ALWAYS SAY NO or just click on close windows icon [x] because genuine websites would never try to do that.

Hope that helps and happy surfing...