What's Your Browser Start Page? 174
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?"
about:blank (Score:5, Insightful)
about:mozilla (Score:3, Funny)
from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15
Re:about:mozilla (Score:2)
Re:about:blank (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:about:blank (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:about:blank (Score:2)
Re:about:blank (Score:2)
Re:about:blank (Score:2)
For Opera, OTOH, I have no less than 10 windows - all places I visit frequently or with articles, etc. I haven't yet finished reading - which load on startup. The MDI and "continue where I was browsing last time" features of Opera are WONDERFUL.
Re:about:blank (Score:3, Interesting)
Damn straight. (Score:2)
Start pages are used by people who complain their internet is slow. Small office with a dozen or so people sharing a DSL all using start pages and complaining it is slow. DUH.
Don't they realize that every time they open a window with a start page, wich 99% of the time they don't want, they waste network resources? Sure with proper caching and proxy it wouldn't matter to much but that is of course never the case.
Start page? Never use
Re:Damn straight. (Score:2)
Re:about:blank (Score:2)
Re:about:blank (Score:2)
I have two start pages (Score:5, Informative)
Re:I have x start pages (Score:3, Insightful)
Pooch Cafe [ucomics.com] Get Fuzzy [comics.com] Sluggy Freelance [sluggy.com] Megatokyo [megatokyo.com] User Friendly [userfriendly.org] Slashdot [slashdot.org] BYU [byu.edu]
Then I usually go to cnn, nytimes, bbc, and deseret morning news for the second set of tabs. I love firefox
Slashdot (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Slashdot (Score:4, Interesting)
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.
Google News (Score:3, Interesting)
Haven't switched since they started it.
Re:Google News (Score:3, Insightful)
The only thing I hate is that it's the "Search News" button that grabs the <Enter> key by default (when you type something into the text box). I hate being forced to use my mouse and click on the "Search Web" button.
I don't have their toolbar (and refuse to install it). I wish they would allow a preference setting to change the default search. I mean, come on, how many people search for news items, even from news.google.com?
Re:Google News (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Google News (Score:3, Informative)
Have you checked Yahoo News [yahoo.com] ?
Re:Google News (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Google News (Score:2)
current front page Yahoo! News: 8 AP, 6 Reuters, 1 USAToday
current front page Google News: 3 Reuters, 1 Bloomberg, 3 Washington Post, 1 GEO, 1 ABN CBS, 1 Guardian, 1 NY
"Me too" and... (Score:2)
I also have Google translation [google.com] buttons on my corporate pages [cyberknights.com.au]. Handy si usted sabe hablar solamente espanol (oder Deutscher).
They also get points for backing away from a public offering and the potential for all of that money in favour of doing things properly.
a locally cached super-search page (Score:3, Interesting)
google search
alta-vista search
google groups search
debian package search
its locally cached, so load time is epsilon.
Re:a locally cached super-search page (Score:2)
Drudge baby (Score:2, Interesting)
followed by
Slashdot
myYahoo with RSS beta &
Fark
and that will usually waste 1-2 hours for me each morning...
Re:Drudge baby (Score:2, Insightful)
--Mike--
Re:Drudge baby (Score:2)
Re:Drudge baby (Score:2)
Re:Drudge baby (Score:2)
Actually... (Score:2)
I'm sure if i changed that, i'd get WAY more done.
Re:Actually... (Score:2)
Comment removed (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Wikipedia! (Score:2)
Re:Wikipedia! (Score:2, Redundant)
Google because it is fast and frequently used. (Score:3, Interesting)
US CERT (Score:4, Funny)
Re:US CERT (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
about:blank. Why? (Score:2)
I do it to decrease loading times. There are certainly about 10 websites I routinely look at each day, but I might not be popping up a window to look at any of those.
Also, back around when I switched to about:blank, I was having trouble with my Internet connection's reliability. I think I was using a free Internet provider on a 486 running Linux or something... no joke. Not automatically loading
Re:about:blank. Why? (Score:2)
Though I admit that I don't use the bookmarks much anymore. Just entering the URL from the Run dialog is faster for me, and all the sites I like to visit are in the autocomplete history.
Ballsome.com (Score:3, Insightful)
I figure if I don't like looking at it every time I open a browser window, nobody else will.
localhost (Score:2)
That and typing
Wikipedia Random (Score:2)
Before that, it was news.google.com [google.com] for a few months, and before that it was Slashdot for many years.
Re:Wikipedia Random (Score:2)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_
Interesting.
myhq.com (Score:3, Interesting)
WTF (Score:2)
Text not found: pr0n
Okay, maybe they spelled it differently...
Text not found: porn
Holy shit. Nobody has thought of that yet. What is (not?) wrong with you folks?!??!?! this is slashdot, for crissake!
start page, home page- there is a difference (Score:2)
Slashdot, google, the in network veo camera [amazon.com] that I use to look in on my son, and something else I don't want to name
I can click any of them to start there.. but if I click home, that's google.-- but, I have four start pages
My Safari Setup (Score:2)
about 63 different pages... (Score:4, Informative)
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
Re:about 63 different pages... (Score:2)
This should be a poll (Score:5, Insightful)
Inaccurate or no, it would be better that way.
SB
My own site (Score:2)
Now that I'm aware
about:blank (Score:2)
My own monster (Score:2)
Snarg... (Score:2)
It's supposed to be about:blank (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, I know about Mozilla. Still too slow (even Firefox) and the XUL version of the Google toolbar has serious problems.
If you were about to tell me to switch to Linux, you really need to get a life.
But I digress. Why about:blank? Because there's absolute no web page I want to see every time I open a new browser window. Something I do 100 times a day. That's not hype -- 100 is a conservative estimate!
Re:It's supposed to be about:blank (Score:2)
http://computercops.us/modules.php?name=Forums&
Might help get rid of the bugger.
Re:It's supposed to be about:blank (Score:2)
One half-solution would be to but a bogus entry for that domain in your c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file (point it to Google's IP address, or to 127.0.0.1 and run a tiny http server [ritlabs.com] with a blank page, or something), so the browser wouldn't actually get to that site.
Or the usual solution for fixing chronic Windows problems: reinstall the OS. ;)
Re:It's supposed to be about:blank (Score:2)
One of the other adwares it downloaded did something I was able to detect this way. It used random names for its components (like the search bar it wanted me to use instead of Googlebar) s
Last viewed set of tabs (Score:4, 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.
Firefox (Score:2)
Search engines (Score:2)
It used to be Excite and then Internet Movie Database (which I keep on a quick link button along with Slashdot, Fark, Dictionary.com).
The browsers I use on my FreeBSD box start with a blank page since I usually run them remotely (headless machine) and I don't want to waste time waiting for them.
At work, a custom made page with frames to our trouble ticket system as well as a couple of monit
jumpfile.html (Score:4, Interesting)
For example, here's what I've got for Slashdot:
(excuse the space in the first <input>; it's Slashdot's, not mine.)
Insensitivity abounds! (Score:2)
MyWay (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Re:MyWay (Score:2)
Re:MyWay (Score:2)
STATUS (Score:4, Funny)
www.yahoo.com (Score:2)
Anything else doesn't look right in the browser.
I don't actually use Yahoo for anything, but it's what Browsers Are Supposed To Have At Startup.
Re:www.yahoo.com (Score:2)
My wiki bookmark page (Score:2)
I set my browser home page to my bookmark page on my wiki server. It's somewhat combersome to add links to it, but I can use from any browser, and best of all, I can edit it from any browser.
Used to be Yahoo, then Google, now Druge (Score:2)
I'm damn sure that it's the start page of at least a third of DC.
Then, it's off to work where my start page is Google, even though there's an Intranet page I probably should be using instead.
Slashdot loads too slowly for a start page when I'm opening new windows. I used to keep it at Yahoo.com when I'd set up other people's computers because
Mine's got a pretty feather on it (Score:2)
blank (Score:2)
I'm either using google (in my toolbar), or I know where I'm going.
my RSS reader takes care of the news now, so I don't have a need for my yahoo anymore. Although, I still prefer its format over the email style window.
Another vote for Google.com (Score:3, Interesting)
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...
Nuthin but pr0n (Score:2)
Oh, and I have a google strip that hovers over all that, because y'know, you always need to google something.
ESPN.com (Score:2)
KGB is watching you! (Score:2)
weather.com for my location. (Score:2)
A little script I wrote (Score:2)
customized personal homepage (Score:2)
blanketfort.com - exit/home [blanketfort.com]
Created custom page (Score:2)
I created a php page that I run on localhost apache server. Here [msu.edu] is a sample of what the page looks like (the actual appointments, names, birthdays, etc have been changed). It allows me to write what I have to do and save it. Also, what I write in the appointment textbox is read in by the calendar part so the dates are underlined and a tooltip tells me what I have to do (needed when the texbox is full since I don't like to delete record of what I've done either).
I tend to forget to stay organized, so I
http://localhost/ (Score:2)
... running an Apache 1.3.something, serving a hand-written (S)HTML page containing the most frequently used pages and some CGIs for various stuff, mostly converting POD, man, info and so on; both at home and in the office.
Tux2000
blank, damnit (Score:2)
not very nerdy (Score:2)
come off it, thats for normals
My home page is the custom script that displays the various status of my servers
I've got
Give Food for Free to Hungry People (Score:2)
Word of the Day (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
Bonnaroo! (Score:2)
http://www.eclecticpixel.com/bonnaroo/
(check out http://www.bonnaroo.com)
at home and abroad (Score:2)
Pretty simple (Score:2)
$ lynx
If it has to be a graphical one, such as
this Internet Exploder at work, I prefer
a blank page, because it loads fastest.
Very simple ... (Score:2)
Start page? (Score:2)
about:mozilla (Now with formatting!) (Score:2, Interesting)
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 o
Re:about:mozilla (Now with formatting!) (Score:2)
That obviously refers to firebird...what did firebird's about thing say? is this just unchanged or what?
Re:google.com (Score:3, Informative)
So now I have it to my own home page, on a server in my closet -- it links to the webcomics I read and forums I frequent, so it's basically a glorified bookmarks set.
Re:google.com (Score:2)
I also used to have google, but with the google search bar in firefox that's pretty useless.
If you set your search engine to Google in Mozilla, you can also get a ``search Google'' option from your regular location bar, which is even nicer, as you can do
and get a page of Google results.
I still have Google as my home page, though. If nothing else, it lets me know the network is still alive....
Re:google.com (Score:2)
Re:my start page (Score:3, Funny)
Damn, you've got a lot of porn showing up on your start page.
Errr, wait a minute....
Just forget I said anything, okay?