ChrisNYC Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 In the early days of the web I used to re-set my home page to a different (exciting!) website each week or so. Over the years I seem to be slowing down - I think I've had it set to Yahoo for a while now. What's your browser's home page set to? Are you a news-junkie? Or do you choose home-pages that are focused on a hobby? How often do you change home-pages? I started wondering about other folks' web-habits so I figured I'd start asking around here first ------------------ Chris (aka Tender Vittles ) Little '77 KZ400 in the Big Apple Black '99 RT for Everywhere Else, such as ... Link to comment
russell_bynum Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 I use IE 7's tabbed browsing (and I used Firefox's tabbed browsing before I switched back to IE) and when I open IE, it loads the following tabs: * My pesonal Google homepage, with gadgets for Gmail, CNN, Top Stories, and a few moto-racing feeds * bmwst.com * SuperbikePlanet.com * MotoGP.com * CBR600RR.com * 600rr.net's pictures/videos forum Link to comment
smiller Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 How do you set Firefox & Explorer to load multiple tabs at startup? I can see how to open with the last set of tabs (when the browser was last closed), but now how to open with the same set of tabs each time. Link to comment
russell_bynum Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 I forget how I did it in Firefox, but with IE, it's easy: Tools Internet Options Then just type in each URL in the "Home Page" box. One URL per line. Edit: Got it. For Firefox, put a Pipe symbol between each URL like this: http://www.yahoo.com|http://www.google.com|http://www.bmwst.com Link to comment
Davis Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 In Firefox open the tabs you want to be there when you open it. Go to "Tools"->"Options" then on the main tab, for Startup set When Firefox starts to "Show my Home Page" then click on the "Use current pages" button. Your homepage is now the tabs that are currently open. In Explorer, you can either type each address on a separate line in the homepage box or open all the pages you want open and click the "Use current page" button. Link to comment
Joel Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 To set tabs to open at startup in Firefox, get all of the tabbed pages open in the order you prefer, and then go to Tools, Options, Main, Startup and hit the button for "Use Current Pages." I have different startup sets for my office and home computers. The office is pretty mundane. At home, it goes: *wsj.com front page *bmwst.com main index *Hotmail login *Personalized Google homepage *online banking login *espn.com *weather.com local weather 10-day forecast *ilounge.com *advrider.com GSpot *r1200gs.info *eBay login *smugmug *Netflix queue By the time I cycle through those, it's time to go to bed. I'm not sure how any work ever gets done. Link to comment
smiller Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 "Use Current Pages" will only display the tabs that were present when the browser was last closed, not the same set of default tabs each time. But Russell's tip about separating multiple pages with the pipe character works great, thanks Russell. I don't know where I would have found that one in the documentation (if it is even there.) Edit: OK, I see what you guys mean now about the 'Use Current Pages'. If you select that and set the pull-down to 'Use my home page" then it works as described. Thanks everyone. Link to comment
ghaverkamp Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 But Russell's tip about separating multiple pages with the pipe character works great, thanks Russell. I don't know where I would have found that one in the documentation (if it is even there.) It's not in my FF 1.5 documentation. However, I discovered it by using a bookmark folder as my start page, which does the same thing. With FF 2.0 (which I don't have handy) I think you can use Live Bookmarks, but I could be wrong about that. Doesn't much matter for me. I've been using about:blank (or its equivalent) as my browser's homepage for years. Between FF keywords for searching and moving most of my surfing to my aggregator, I don't see much need to open tabs. Now that I've moved haverkamp.com mail to Google Apps for Domains, I may rethink that. The biggest problem is that I'm still a multi-window kind of guy. Can't get into tabs, as much as I try. One of these days I'll figure out how to remap the key in Firefox to make it like iTerm, and then maybe I'll use it. Right now, it's too awkward on my Kinesis Advantage. Link to comment
George Brown Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Blank Page, I don't like to wait for a website to load. Link to comment
leikam Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 I have a page saved locally that I created to be my start page. There's no load time and it has all the links I regularly use as well as one-click logins to various sites. I redesign the page now and then of course, but the basic idea has served me well for years. Link to comment
SageRider Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Blank Page, I don't like to wait for a website to load. ditto Link to comment
bakerzdosen Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 my.excite.com I'm too lazy to set up a google or yahoo! home! page! so I stick with what I've been using since, um, 1996? (Wow, that's a long time ago in internet years isn't it?) Link to comment
Warren_H Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Blank Page, I don't like to wait for a website to load. ditto double ditto Link to comment
Blake Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Blank Page, I don't like to wait for a website to load. ditto double ditto tripple ditto. if i want a page bad enough, i have it bookmarked, or i can just type it in. Link to comment
russell_bynum Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Blank Page, I don't like to wait for a website to load. ditto double ditto tripple ditto. if i want a page bad enough, i have it bookmarked, or i can just type it in. On my laptop, where I'll have questionable connectivity, I go to about:blank. On the desktops, my surfing patterns are pretty predictable. I'm pretty much always going to go to the sites I listed, so I might as well go ahead and load them when I load the browser. I guess it depends on your surfing habits and connectivity. Link to comment
ChrisNYC Posted March 7, 2007 Author Share Posted March 7, 2007 bakerzdosen said my.excite.com Holy smokes ... I forgot about excite.com! That was one of my very first homepages. Just now I went to excite, and my account still exists, and in it I found a bookmark I've been trying to (re-)locate for a while: a photography site with pictures of abandoned aircraft in the desert. http://www.lostamerica.com/images/new.html I also used backflip.com in the early days when I wanted to access the web from a borrowed computer ... ------------------ Chris (aka Tender Vittles ) Little '77 KZ400 in the Big Apple Black '99 RT for Everywhere Else, such as ... Link to comment
Lynn Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 I never change mine. At my work laptop and desktop machine, my home page is my company: www.accessabc.com At home, it is set to the homepage my husband has set up for his students. Link to comment
myshkin Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 myway.com No banner ads or adverts!!! Link to comment
Bob Palin Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 I have a page saved locally that I created to be my start page. There's no load time and it has all the links I regularly use as well as one-click logins to various sites. I redesign the page now and then of course, but the basic idea has served me well for years. I use a links page I save on my own web site, that way I have my favourites no matter what computer I'm using. Problem is I haven't updated it in a long time so it isn't much use... Link to comment
AdventurePoser Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 www.flyaboveall.com Cheers, Steve in so cal Link to comment
BadAdam Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 www.nytimes.com at work www.hotmail.com for the wife at home maps.google.com on the blackberry cause I usually need a map when I start browsing that I used to use wikipedia.com but got completely distracted every morning... Link to comment
RightSpin Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 That's an interesting question, Chris. I used to keep mine on Google, then Yahoo before that, and I can't remember what prior to that. Now, I keep all of my browsers on my own personal "jump" page. www.rightspin.com/jump Every now and then, I update it to include new sites I visit often. It's also handy to have all of my important links when I am away from my own computers. Link to comment
algover Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ It fills a long-held interest and gets some cool pictures. Link to comment
Steve-C Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 I've been using about:blank (or its equivalent) as my browser's homepage for years. Can't get into tabs, as much as I try. Ditto on the blank, although I'm using Opera with tabs and really liking it. I have a thing about keeping my taskbar as clear as possible, thus having lots of little icons for apps that are minimised to tray... Link to comment
Lone_RT_rider Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 Yahooooooooooooooooooooooooooohooooooooooooooooo.....mail. It's been there for years..... Shawn Link to comment
bakerzdosen Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 I know I'm drudging up a thread from over a month ago, but I just had to add this: I really like the igoogle homepage. I still think it's missing a coupla small things, but for the most part, I think I might just switch over to that. I read a review of it this morning and decided to try it. I'm a fan now. Google will rule the world soon... if they don't already. Link to comment
russell_bynum Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 I know I'm drudging up a thread from over a month ago, but I just had to add this: I really like the igoogle homepage. I still think it's missing a coupla small things, but for the most part, I think I might just switch over to that. I read a review of it this morning and decided to try it. I'm a fan now. Google will rule the world soon... if they don't already. That's my main home page. I like it. Link to comment
EffBee Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 Some BMW website where the members ask nosey questions. I love this place. It's home to me. And everyone on it is my friend (with perhaps one or two exceptions and they know who they are). Link to comment
leikam Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 I'm using Opera with tabs and really liking it. I'm using Opera as well and like it a lot. Their new version (9.2) has a feature called "Speed Dial". When you open a new tab, it shows you new thumbnails of whatever sites you've added to the list. Nice if you've got bandwidth to spare and fairly predictable surfing habits. Link to comment
E30TECH Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 If your homepage is set to a porn site, can you show it in this thread? Link to comment
myshkin Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 Myway.com Ultimately customizable and no banner ads. Link to comment
Hermes Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 Google will rule the world soon... if they don't already. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ...and then MicroSoft will come and swallow it whole. My homepage: http://bmwsporttouring.com ..honestly! Jurgen Link to comment
Francois_Dumas Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 Never change it.... my home page is my work: www.simflight.com Link to comment
Green RT Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 I use a links page I save on my own web site, that way I have my favourites no matter what computer I'm using. Problem is I haven't updated it in a long time so it isn't much use... I do the same thing except that my links page contains some php code that allows you to add, edit and delete links. So it is easy to update and keep current from wherever. Link to comment
q2bruiser Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 IE: about;blank Firefox: about:blank Link to comment
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