What's Your Browser Start Page?

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?"

Comments

Wikipedia!

[E1ven]

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..

Re:Slashdot

[hawkstone]

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.

Last viewed set of tabs

[driptray]

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.

jumpfile.html

[andfarm]

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.)

Re:about:blank

[Rick the Red]

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.