Sending user to their browser's Home Page using Javascript

Question

Is it possible to get a browser\'s home page using Javascript?

I\'d like to place a link on a page that goes to the home page set in the browser.

Answer 1

Default home page (default new tab) URL:

Google Chrome:

https://www.google.com/_/chrome/newtab

Firefox and IE:

about:home

Opera:

opera:speeddial

Safari:

http://livepage.apple.com

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To find out the default home page URL of your browser, go to your home page and type location.href in the console. Note that the browser might redirect you to your locale, so you'll need to find out the page before redirection (it happens on Chrome).

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If you're using this browser detection code you can use this one-liner to get the correct url:

var homepageurl = browser == 'gc' ? 'https://www.google.com/_/chrome/newtab' : browser == 'op' ? 'about:speeddial' : browser=='sa' ? 'http://livepage.apple.com' : 'about:home'

Browser detection code JSFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/oriadam/ncb4n882/