Comments on: Web Browser Homepage

By: Bryan Clark

Bryan Clark — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:00:18 +0000

Baptiste: I put all the comment entry areas at 100% width now

By: Bryan Clark : Firefox Journal

Bryan Clark : Firefox Journal — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:49:33 +0000

[...] Journal takes over as your homepage. What? You read that a homepage isn’t useful? Yes, well this isn’t a “homepage”, it’s a journal and according to [...]

By: Rafael Jannone

Rafael Jannone — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:32:45 +0000

Firefox could have an option to create a static homepage from the current site you are visualizing.
Sort of “File->Save As” + “Set Current Page as Homepage” combo.
So it would load very quickly, because it is stored locally, but at the same time, you’d be free to choose whatever ready-made content fits your taste.

But still, I like Opera’s Speed Dial better

By: DSLin

DSLin — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:26:22 +0000

I use http://www.homepageforme.com to create my own browser home page. It allows me to see all my favorite links in one place. Bookmark and RSS features are nice too. I am much more productive now after I have set up my personalized home page.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 06:10:06 +0000

I don’t even know anymore… the previously saved session.

By: James

James — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 04:48:57 +0000

Late to the party, but http://trs80.ucc.asn.au/bookmarks.html is effectively my homepage. It’s created by a nasty python script that check the pages for updates, then sorts by last update.

By: Paul McGarry

Paul McGarry — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 23:09:16 +0000

I just have my browsers (Firefox and Opera) start from where they left off, ie with all the tabs as I left them.

I thinks this works really well and most likely gives me easy access to a variety of things I’m interested in.

I think a single home page is very much something that belongs in the last decade. Opera’s speed dial is probably a worthy evolution of that though I personally don’t seem to use it much.

By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:10:23 +0000

I use my .plan file as my browser start page. It has a couple of links to other pages, but it’s mostly my TODO list, constantly reminding me what I should be doing each time I click “Home”.

Now, if only I kept it up to date!

One of the links is to my bookmarks file. I use bookmarks a lot. Good against ytpo-squatters. Not so good against old-domain-squatters.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:12:16 +0000

I normally use google.com/ig, but since I started using Mozilla/SeaMonkey/SuiteRunner nightlies, it’s the standard “you downloaded a new build” page. However, I immediately open one or two sets of bookmarks (webcomics and news+Newsfox feed reader).

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:47:04 +0000

I like using several tabs as my homepage, ending in about:blank. So I get my bloglines, gmail, and gcal open (which I keep open all the time), followed by about:blank. If I’m looking to go somewhere quick, I just type the URL while the other tabs load in the background.

By: Dan Winship

Dan Winship — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:50:15 +0000

Custom portal: http://mysterion.org/~danw/

Back when the web was young, I had one of those “Hi my name and Dan and here is a whole bunch of stuff about me that you don’t care about” homepages. Eventually I started adding things like “My favorite search engine is _Alta Vista_” (I told you this was when the web was young so that I’d have that link handy and click-on-able. Then I realized that the links were really useful and the text was crap, so I got rid of all the text. Eventually it evolved into its current form.

I have to say that the wikipedia random page home page someone else mentioned is pretty brilliant though.

By: Adam Petaccia

Adam Petaccia — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:35:19 +0000

I use my router’s status page as my homepage. I can quickly see how many people are logged on, who’s on wireless etc. Not that it ever matters, but it loads /really/ fast, and is useful once in a while. Looks cool, too.

By: Raphaël Quinet

Raphaël Quinet — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:04:33 +0000

I have been using about:blank since several years.

Before that, I was using a link to my bookmarks (/home/raphael/.netscape/…/bookmarks.html). If I remember correctly, I started doing that around the time when Netscape 1.0 was released.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:38:44 +0000

iGoogle takes way too long for me to load as a homepage because I have so much cool /stuff/ on it. I use http://news.bbc.co.uk/ as my homepage and have for years now. It’s one way to make sure I have the slightest clue what’s going on in the world, because I don’t seek out any news sites or other news media. It loads quite quickly for me.

By: Todd Deshane

Todd Deshane — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:38:47 +0000

about:blank or SessionSaver. I used to use google.com/ig, but the load time is too slow for me (I added a lot of things to it).

Blank is the best since it doesn’t distract me. Typically i end up starting at gmail since that is where I was last. I have the Better Gmail firefox plugin installed so I can also get to google reader easily too.

The other thing I will do is crash the browser intentionally if I have a lot of tabs open, some of which I will go back to when I restore the session.

By: shivan

shivan — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:56:11 +0000

about:blank with 4-5 bookmarks I can access with one-letter-long keyword, its load instantly and I can go easily to any of these pages

By: Maxo

Maxo — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:49:47 +0000

I use about:blank on all of my personal PCs. At work, when we where allowed to have FF I had it set to open a tab for each application I frequently need at work. Now that we are only allowed to have IE I just have it go to our intranet page.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:28:18 +0000

Same for me, about:blank. I don’t need anything to open except of the browser itself, when I open it. Daily changing sites usually have a news-feed anyway, so I use my newsreader to keep track of them.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:45:03 +0000

http://en-GB.start2.mozilla.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official

Default Firefox start page. I would say 80% of times I open my browser I want to search for something, so this works for me. I would use about:blank and the Search Bar for searching, but then I need to use the mouse or Ctrl+K to get there. The start page automatically focuses the search box

By: Dirk

Dirk — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 08:55:52 +0000

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

and i learn new things all the time.