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    What is your Homepage?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by lineS of flight, Oct 12, 2010.

  1. lineS of flight

    lineS of flight Notebook Virtuoso

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    As the subject line asks...what do you use for your homepage regardless of the browser(s) that you may use? In other words, what is the first thing you see when you open up your preferred browser?

    Till today I used to have google's search engine page. Having used Chrome extensively and today having downloaded and tried IE9 beta, I think having google's SE page as a home page is pretty stupid - especially because I could just as well search from the search bar on the top. So, that got me thinking...what to have a "home page". If I had a blog, I'd probably use that. I am interested in knowing what homepage you use and some of the reasons as to your choice.

    Thanks
     
    lineS of flight, Oct 12, 2010
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  2. jeremyshaw

    jeremyshaw Big time Idiot

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    about:tabs (ie8 and ie9).

    It makes more sense in ie9, but I don't really care :p
     
    jeremyshaw, Oct 12, 2010
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  3. nemt

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    Yahoo and Astronomy Picture of the Day
     
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  4. lineS of flight

    lineS of flight Notebook Virtuoso

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    Wow...about:tabs huh!

    Don't you want to see something immediately on opening up your browsers instead of a blank page?
     
    lineS of flight, Oct 12, 2010
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    about:Tabs at home
    and my bank at my desk at work because the first thing I do in the am is my bill payments that show up in the mail almost every morning.

    nope because it is VERY rarely I ever want or need the same page twice when initially loading my browser. I keep my favorites open and run from there
     
    crazycanuk, Oct 12, 2010
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  6. jeremyshaw

    jeremyshaw Big time Idiot

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    It's a habit I got from using winxp on my laptop.
     
    jeremyshaw, Oct 12, 2010
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  7. lineS of flight

    lineS of flight Notebook Virtuoso

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    OK. I see. Very interesting. I am still playing around with what I should set as my homepage. Maybe an online calendar (daily and/ or weekly) of sorts.
     
    lineS of flight, Oct 12, 2010
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    Speed Dial extension (Google Chrome)
     
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  9. jeremyshaw

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    For those who want to know, it's a nice, graphical representation of your frequently visited sites, or pinned sites (a more controllable variant of ie9's about:tabs).
     
    jeremyshaw, Oct 12, 2010
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    lineS of flight Notebook Virtuoso

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    Right! It has those "most recently visited pages". I forgot about that. And what do you get when you click on the Home button?
     
    lineS of flight, Oct 12, 2010
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  11. jeremyshaw

    jeremyshaw Big time Idiot

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    about:tabs if I click the home button.
     
    jeremyshaw, Oct 12, 2010
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  12. nu_D

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    igoogle....has my gmail, headlines..weather...a lot of stuff.
     
    nu_D, Oct 12, 2010
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  13. cassar

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    engadget.com
     
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  14. Matt is Pro

    Matt is Pro I'm a PC, so?

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    Chrome: Nothing (I use the default speed-dial like thing)
    IE/Firefox: Google.
     
    Matt is Pro, Oct 12, 2010
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  15. Joel

    Joel coffeecoffeecoffeecoffee

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    iGoogle for me.
     
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    Chrome/Firefox: GameFAQs.
     
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  18. JWBlue

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    Chrome can be set to not open anything. In Chrome, there is a white button in the Window where "Most visited" and "Recently Closed" can be unchecked.
     
    JWBlue, Oct 12, 2010
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    Mine: (Attached)
     

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  20. Bearclaw

    Bearclaw Steaming

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    Thissssssssss
     
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  21. Bog

    Bog Losing it...

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    Google... I thought everybody set this as their home page.

    ?
     
    Bog, Oct 12, 2010
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  22. MidnightSun

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    I have Opera set to start with the last-closed state, which for me is usually the Speed Dial screen. But my homepage is Bing. I love the daily pictures :)
     
    MidnightSun, Oct 12, 2010
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    Jayayess1190 Waiting on Intel Cannonlake

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    My.yahoo.com in all browsers. If I have pages open when I close the browser those open instead:
     

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  24. ScuderiaConchiglia

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    Two tabs, one with MyWay.com (configurable page with news sources, weather, stock quotes, bookmarks, configurable TV listings etc and only a single google ad) and the second tab is google.com

    Gary
     
    ScuderiaConchiglia, Oct 13, 2010
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  25. 1ceBlu3

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    Firefox, and Chrome both set on Google
     
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  26. lineS of flight

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    For you folks who set their home pages to google, don't you use the search box in your browsers - Chrome, IE9, Opera and FF (sorry, don't know how Safari works)? I ask because you can search the web from there directly instead of going to, say, Google or to Bing etc.
     
    lineS of flight, Oct 13, 2010
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  27. Joel

    Joel coffeecoffeecoffeecoffee

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    I use the Google search at the top of the browser all the time, I only use my homepage... Actually, I don't even use it that much!
     
    Joel, Oct 13, 2010
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  28. lineS of flight

    lineS of flight Notebook Virtuoso

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    But does not iGoogle have the search box too?

    You see, what I am trying to do is to find a relatively stable home page that is not the search pages of google or bing etc.

    I use google's search page at the moment, but I think it is essentially superflous since the search capability is already built into the browser.
     
    lineS of flight, Oct 13, 2010
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  29. Kuu

    Kuu That Quiet Person

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    I just have Opera reopen all the tabs that were open when I closed the browser, which is 7 pinned tabs, and at least 2 other tabs that I was looking at for whatever reason. I usually only close Opera when it starts using near a GB of RAM though.
     
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  30. timtravel42

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    Boring :p - default firefox start

    I used to have the old "open all 10 tabs that I want to read" set up, but that became way too slow
     
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  31. Imperfect1

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    Here's a totally different way of looking at this: Why limit yourself to just ONE home page when you actually can have MULTIPLE home pages -- I do. For those of you who use IE, the 'Home' button on IE also allows for multiple home pages --- I currently have 7 set, and I click on whichever one I need to use at the moment i.e. one is a search browser, one is my Yahoo mail, one is my Yahoo home page, one is Wikipedia, etc). You can have multiple shortcut icons on your Desktop to multiple sites to be used as home pages. So you can choose exactly what you want/need to see at any given time.

    To add additional websites to IE's Home Page list, all you have to do is to click the down-arrow to the right of ‘Home,’ and click "Add or Change Home Page." Then, just follow the on-screen directions. "Add Home Page" will add all of the additional sites you wish to be able to instantly access. So to go to any of them, all you have to do is open the drop-down menu and click the site.

    OR -- Go to the website that you want as one of your Home Pages, in the upper toolbar click on Tools, Internet Options, and on the page that opens, in the Home Page section, select the Current tab.
     
    Imperfect1, Oct 14, 2010
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  32. Nankuru

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    :laugh:

    I have 25 pages in my Opera speed dial so I had no idea what my home page was until I looked just now.

    Since it's the default Opera page, I probably haven't used it since I last installed Windows....
     
    Nankuru, Oct 14, 2010
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  33. lineS of flight

    lineS of flight Notebook Virtuoso

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    @imperfect1...that's interesting! But where is this "down-arrow" at the "home" button?
     
    lineS of flight, Oct 14, 2010
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    On the toolbar, to the immediate right of the Home icon there is a small black triangle. Click that.
     
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  35. lineS of flight

    lineS of flight Notebook Virtuoso

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    OK...I see what you mean. On the command bar. I actually had that hidden. Thanks.
     
    lineS of flight, Oct 14, 2010
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  36. sama98b

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    Google .. not like I see it often since firefox opening with the last tabs that was open.
    Got 20-30 pages in tabs all the time.
     
    sama98b, Oct 14, 2010
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    i'm searching for a new job so my homepage is a job bank website. will change this to notebookreview.com once I get a new job
     
    bulik, Oct 14, 2010
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    lineS of flight Notebook Virtuoso

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    Lol...yeah...I tired having NBR as a homepage sometime back. I spent unbelievable time on the site...just reading reviews and stuff...got no work done at all! :eek:
     
    lineS of flight, Oct 14, 2010
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    gmail, it loads quickly and reminds me to check me email. Typically I only open/close my browser a few times a day so this is important ;)
     
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    Speed Dial extension in Chrome
     
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    a blank page

    Why do I need content coming at me?
     
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    Google search in Firefox,Bing search in IE.
     
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  44. lineS of flight

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    It's very interesting reading all your comments on the home page. Since I have nothing better to do at the moment, I have been spending some time looking into this. From what I have found, it's quite a difficult job to have an appropriate "home page".

    For me this was for the longest time, Google's search page. Now, I am not sure any more. I never really thought thinking about setting a home page could be such a complex thing (of course, it does not have to be - like opting for the about:tabs option).
     
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    google search, loads fast and if i need to search it's there quickly.
     
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    my homepages opened in 6 tabs when I start ff:
    1. my yahoo* (this is were my RSS are all displayed),
    2. pc buy&sell site,
    3. photography forum,
    4. linux forum,
    5. IT news blog and
    6. facebook

    * used to enjoy reading comics on my 'my yahoo' homepage a year or 2 ago but they changed it and made it impossible to display any comic strip at all. If anyone can suggest a custom page where it can display any preselected comic strips then I would be very grateful.
     
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  48. ~Tom~

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    Google.

    It makes it quick and easy to search. I'm pretty sure most people use Google as theirs.
     
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    I have it open all my old tabs. I like to start off where I left off.
     
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  50. qhn

    qhn Notebook User

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    yahoo

    cheer ...
     
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