What's your home page?

dave shared a link said Tue, Jan 21st 2014 at 10:27am ET

I recently set my "new browser window" page to be the mediocre forum, because, you know, I work here and it seems like a reasonable thing to check on pretty regularly.

It struck me that I hadn't had any home page at all for the past I-don't-know-how-many years, just the default thumbnails of sites I visit most, which I also basically never click out of habit of just typing site names in.

So, do you have a home page on your browser? Or is that a dead idea?

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shawn said Tue, Jan 21st 2014 at 10:30am ET:

Dead idea... but maybe we could bring it back if we add one of those JavaScript set-this-as-your-homepage prompts to mediocre.com

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marcee said Tue, Jan 21st 2014 at 11:31am ET:

I've been told multiple times, by the owner of the company at which I work, that I am not and never will be the "average consumer" - based solely upon the fact that my homepage is set to "blank".

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barnabee said Tue, Jan 21st 2014 at 11:45am ET:

I admit, I'm a dinosaur. ARRRRRRRRRGH (Is that how a dinosaur sounds?) I have my homepage set to igHome.

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- No, that's not a dinosaur. That's Charlie Brown. -sigh-
  
  barnabee said Tue, Jan 21st 2014 at 12:01pm ET
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ConAndLibrarian said Tue, Jan 21st 2014 at 10:12pm ET:

Work homepage is set to my work website and the one at home is set to Google. Google knows all...

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capguncowboy said Wed, Jan 22nd 2014 at 12:11am ET:

mine defaults to blank. For years though I had it set as google.com/pacman

I found that it came in handy when I wanted to waste productive hours of my life being useless to the world. However, they changed it so it's no longer a search engine and it lost it's actual usefulness. Sad day.

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spitfire6006006 said Wed, Jan 22nd 2014 at 12:31pm ET:

Mine was igoogle for years and years, but they just discontinued that site, now it's ighome, which is like a bad store brand version of it

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hart said Wed, Jan 22nd 2014 at 1:12pm ET:

I think the New Tab "Wheel" (or w/e each browser calls it) is steadily replacing the homepage. Even on my phone, Chrome defaults to the "Most Visited" new tab.

Although, personally, I still love to keep a few pinned tabs as my default when opening a new window, including the forum.

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gavin said Wed, Jan 22nd 2014 at 3:26pm ET:

I have Chrome load multiple websites each time I open it up. Google,Twitter, LinkedIn, Feedly, Football365, Hootsuite. Since I am in Chrome all day, I found it saved me a few seconds each day by setting this up.

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Thumperchick said Thu, Jan 23rd 2014 at 9:20am ET:

It was iGoogle, but since that has gone, I have none.

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sidemouse said Sat, Jan 25th 2014 at 12:49am ET:

Mine was iGoogle also, but I migrated to Feedly and I'm happier than I've been in years: my current home page is the daily Calvin and Hobbes feed.

today:

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