Configure your browser to run at startup in your

Windows: Configure your browser to run at startup

The following steps will work with Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows 10.

To make a web browser launch automatically during startup, create a shortcut to the browser and place it in the Windows Startup folder:

1. Click Start followed by Run and type:
   • %userprofile%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
2. Please note that this location will only affect your user profile at startup; if you would rather have the browser launch at startup for every user who logs on to the computer, place the browser shortcut in this location instead:
   • %allusersprofile%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
3. This opens the Startup folder for the current (or every) user profile.
4. Next, right-click inside folder and choose New followed by Shortcut and provide the path to the browser for which you want to execute at startup.
5. Alternately, you can simply just drag the browser shortcut to this folder too.
   
   

macOS

This will work for OS X Lion (10.7) through macOS Catalina (10.15).

1. Go to System Preferences > Users and Groups (or Accounts in some older versions).
2. Click on the user for which you want your browser to run at startup.
3. Select the Login Items tab.
4. Click on the + (plus) icon.
5. Select your browser and click Add.
   
   

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