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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. about:blank by Peartree · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nuthin better. Good & fast...

    1. Re:about:blank by Foolhardy · · Score: 5, Insightful

      When I start my browser, I already have a page I want to go to in mind; why bother to load another first?

    2. 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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  2. I have two start pages by titaniam · · Score: 5, Informative

    I use firefox, you insensitive clod. I have as many start pages as I like! I actually use only two: drpa.us and peter-a-andrews.com/links.html, both of which are my personal pages.

  3. Slashdot by cyberman11 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Duh. Actually, for a while it was the New York Times. Then Geek.com. For the last few years, it's been Slashdot.

    1. 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.

  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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  5. US CERT by kalidasa · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because that way, I know what I'm in for when I get into work.

  6. Ballsome.com by joeljkp · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ballsome.com, my personal site.

    I figure if I don't like looking at it every time I open a browser window, nobody else will.

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    WeRelate.org - wiki-based genealogy
  7. about 63 different pages... by rusty0101 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Galeon opens in 9 workspaces, with seven tabs per workspace. (give or take a tab in a couple of them.)
    News workpsace has MyYahoo, Slashdot, Linux Today, Google News, Cnn.com, CnetNews, and a local newspaper.
    Four workspaces are for some "social" site or another. One workspace has a whole bunch of blank tabs that I can google directly into as needed, a couple of "My Portal" tabs built by Galeon, mostly for those once or twice a week or month sites.

    That's just at home. Since it's linux, I don't need to reboot it often, so I don't worry too much about "launch" time.

    At work, where I do worry a bit more about launch time, I have a custom page of work and personal relavent links that I update from time to time.

    -Rusty

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  8. Re:Google News by mcskoufis · · Score: 3, Informative

    Had the same site till recently I read in one of the newsletters I receive about Yahoo having a similar website that updates from 75 000 news sources instead of 4500 !!

    Have you checked Yahoo News ?

  9. This should be a poll by shadowbearer · · Score: 4, Insightful



    Inaccurate or no, it would be better that way.

    SB

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  10. Re:Google News by costas · · Score: 3, Informative

    GN is good, but does it let you program personal searches every time you visit? does it learn the subject you're more interested in and suggest new articles on the front page every day? does it let you add to its news feeds directly? give you personal XML and PDA feeds to take home? let you share your favorite stories with friends (automatically)? No, not yet anyway... until then there is memigo [end of shameless plug]

  11. 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.

  12. 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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  13. MyWay by ziggles · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://my.myway.com/

    Basically a portal like yahoo, but more customizable. And their whole purpose is to run a site with no ads and no popups so that's a nice bonus.

  14. Re:I have x start pages by mahonri5 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I too use firefox to load up six different pages. Just scroll through to visit all my standard pages every morning:
    Pooch Cafe Get Fuzzy Sluggy Freelance Megatokyo User Friendly Slashdot BYU
    Then I usually go to cnn, nytimes, bbc, and deseret morning news for the second set of tabs. I love firefox

  15. STATUS by Gropo · · Score: 3, Funny

    My Linksys WET_11 Status page to tell me wether or not my leeched WiFi access is active :P

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