diff --git a/src/lib/app/browserwindow.cpp b/src/lib/app/browserwindow.cpp
index b9e51b3..bdecf2f 100644
--- a/src/lib/app/browserwindow.cpp
+++ b/src/lib/app/browserwindow.cpp
@@ -426,12 +426,12 @@ void BrowserWindow::loadSettings()
 
     //Url settings
     settings.beginGroup("Web-URL-Settings");
-    m_homepage = settings.value("homepage", "qupzilla:start").toUrl();
+    m_homepage = settings.value("homepage", "http://chakraos.org/home/?welcome").toUrl();
     settings.endGroup();
 
     //Browser Window settings
     settings.beginGroup("Browser-View-Settings");
-    bool showStatusBar = settings.value("showStatusBar", true).toBool();
+    bool showStatusBar = settings.value("showStatusBar", false).toBool();
     bool showReloadButton = settings.value("showReloadButton", true).toBool();
     bool showHomeButton = settings.value("showHomeButton", true).toBool();
     bool showBackForwardButtons = settings.value("showBackForwardButtons", true).toBool();
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ void BrowserWindow::loadSettings()
     bool showWebSearchBar = settings.value("showWebSearchBar", true).toBool();
     bool showBookmarksToolbar = settings.value("showBookmarksToolbar", true).toBool();
     bool showNavigationToolbar = settings.value("showNavigationToolbar", true).toBool();
-    bool showMenuBar = settings.value("showMenubar", true).toBool();
+    bool showMenuBar = settings.value("showMenubar", false).toBool();
     bool makeTransparent = settings.value("useTransparentBackground", false).toBool();
     m_sideBarWidth = settings.value("SideBarWidth", 250).toInt();
     m_webViewWidth = settings.value("WebViewWidth", 2000).toInt();
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ void BrowserWindow::loadSettings()
     // Fixes #781
     if (!showNavigationToolbar) {
         showMenuBar = true;
-        settings.setValue("showMenubar", true);
+        settings.setValue("showMenubar", false);
     }
 
     settings.endGroup();
diff --git a/src/lib/plugins/speeddial.cpp b/src/lib/plugins/speeddial.cpp
index 753cf66..fdc891f 100644
--- a/src/lib/plugins/speeddial.cpp
+++ b/src/lib/plugins/speeddial.cpp
@@ -47,17 +47,18 @@ void SpeedDial::loadSettings()
     Settings settings;
     settings.beginGroup("SpeedDial");
     QString allPages = settings.value("pages", QString()).toString();
-    m_backgroundImage = settings.value("background", QString()).toString();
-    m_backgroundImageSize = settings.value("backsize", "auto").toString();
+    m_backgroundImage = settings.value("file:///usr/share/pixmaps/start-white.png", QString()).toString();
+    m_backgroundImageSize = settings.value("backsize", "contain").toString();
     m_maxPagesInRow = settings.value("pagesrow", 4).toInt();
     m_sizeOfSpeedDials = settings.value("sdsize", 231).toInt();
     m_sdcentered = settings.value("sdcenter", 0).toInt();
     settings.endGroup();
 
     if (allPages.isEmpty()) {
-        allPages = "url:\"http://www.qupzilla.com\"|title:\"QupZilla\";"
-                   "url:\"http://blog.qupzilla.com\"|title:\"QupZilla Blog\";"
-                   "url:\"https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla\"|title:\"QupZilla GitHub\";"
+        allPages = "url:\"http://chakraos.org\"|title:\"The Chakra Project - Welcome\";"
+                   "url:\"http://chakraos.org/forum\"|title:\"Forums\";"
+                   "url:\"http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=chakra\"|title:\"IRC\";"
+                   "url:\"http://www.youtube.com/html5\"|title:\"YouTube-html5\";";
                    "url:\"https://duckduckgo.com\"|title:\"DuckDuckGo\";";
     }
     changed(allPages);