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What's Your Browser Start Page?

Posted by Cliff on from the internet-starting-lines dept.

prostoalex asks: "I was just reading an Associated Press story on the most popular Web destinations, where it's noted how the companies are vying for user's attention to become an access point to the Internet. Slashdot's readership is probably not the one to stick to the start page provided by their ISP or their browser manufacturer. What's your browsers start page? A third-party site like Google or Yahoo!? A customized page like My Yahoo! or My MSN? Personal Web site or local HTML file with your favorite bookmarks? about:blank?"

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  1. Google News by DynaSoar · · Score: 2, Interesting

    news.google.com

    Haven't switched since they started it.

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    "I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid." -- Bishop 341-B
  2. a locally cached super-search page by ArmorFiend · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My start page has four text areas:

    google search
    alta-vista search
    google groups search
    debian package search

    its locally cached, so load time is epsilon.

  3. Drudge baby by toddlg · · Score: 2, Interesting

    www.drudgereport.com

    followed by
    Slashdot
    myYahoo with RSS beta &
    Fark

    and that will usually waste 1-2 hours for me each morning...

  4. Wikipedia! by E1ven · · Score: 5, Interesting

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Randompage

    Gives me a Random Wikipedia entry each time I open a browser window. I've buckets of information that I would never otherwise have any inclination to research, but have found very interesting..

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    Colin Davis
  5. Google because it is fast and frequently used. by G4from128k · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I use plain Google (my wife uses Google advanced ) because its the most used page on the internet for us. I previously to use a customized Yahoo finance page (an Excite page before that) but they took too long to load.

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    Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
  6. about:mozilla (Now with formatting!) by GodlikeDoglike · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I use about:mozilla. For every Mozilla or Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox/nom du jour release they have a different hidden start page when you type about:mozilla into the address bar.

    Firefox 0.8's:
    And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.

    from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15

    Coincidentally (i'm sure :P), if you type about:mozilla into IE's address bar, you get a full window blue color in the same hue as a BSOD :)

    (Would a kind mod please mod that ill formatted post down? Thanks.)

  7. myhq.com by Chris+Brewer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's an online bookmark manager which means I can access my bookmarks from home, work, client sites, etc. without having to sync.

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    Consultancy: If you're not part of the solution, there's money to be made in prolonging the problem
  8. Re:Slashdot by hawkstone · · Score: 3, Interesting

    For me it's slashdot as well.

    But to make things better, my top four slashboxes are:
    1. Mine, with links to commonly visited sites like dictionary.com (would the editors please add one for this!) and gamespot.
    2. Google!
    3. AllMusic
    4. Pricewatch

    Therefore, I have google and slashdot, as well as some other sites, as my homepage.

  9. Re:US CERT by Klaruz · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Bah, cert.mil is my cert of choice. It's an uphill battle every day. Thanks bill.

    I do use google for my home page, however I may switch to the random wikipidia entry mention elsewhere for home use and keep google at work.

  10. Last viewed set of tabs by driptray · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I like to pick up where I left off, so my start page is the set of tabs I was viewing when I last shut down the browser.

    Using the Multizilla extension in Mozilla.

  11. jumpfile.html by andfarm · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I use a custom jumpfile I've put together over the last year or two which contains all the links I commonly visit up at the top, a Google search box (of course!) and login fields for a few sites like Slashdot.

    For example, here's what I've got for Slashdot:

    <form action=http://slashdot.org/users.pl method=get>
    <i>Slashdot</i>
    <inpu t type=hidden name=op value=userlogin>
    <input type=hidden name=unickname value=andfarm>
    <input type=hidden name=returnto value=http://slashdot.org/>
    <input type=hidden name=userlogin value=Login>
    <input type=password name=upasswd size=8>
    </form>

    (excuse the space in the first <input>; it's Slashdot's, not mine.)

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    TANSTAAFI: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free iPod.

  12. Re:about:blank by Rick+the+Red · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I used to feel the same way; my home page was about:blank for years. Now my home page is Astronomy Picture of the Day. I'm interested in astronomy and this page is different every day. That makes it a double bonus: I don't get bored with my home page, and I want to visit APOD anyway -- this way I don't forget.

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    If all this should have a reason, we would be the last to know.
  13. Re:about:blank by Kris_J · · Score: 2, Interesting

    At home: blank, at work: a funky little corporate homepage I designed for all the staff to give them quick access to the corporate BBS, web portal, webmail, homepage and calendar.

  14. Another vote for Google.com by MachDelta · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why? Two reasons.

    One, google is simple and on a screamin fast pipe. If google doesn't load when I open my browser, I know my network or ISP is broken.
    Secondly, each time I open a new window, its set to load my homepage (google). So all I need to do is gesture up (All-in-one Gestures extension) to open a new window, and bam: I'm ready to search da intarnet. With gestures, its even faster than having google in the menu bar (which I don't really like anyways). You don't have to click on anything, since the cursor defaults to googles search line... so a quick flick of the wrist upwards, anywhere on the screen, and i'm in business. Its wonderful.

    That random wikipedia link is pretty cool though... maybe i'll add a second homepage to Firefox here...