# Browser home page **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 20, 2002, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-home-page/115020 "2002-06-20T05:43:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ice1000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a3d4f5/32.png) [@ice1000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ice1000)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-home-page/115020/1 "2002-06-20T05:43:27Z")
What do you have set as your browser’s home page? ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-home-page/115020/2 "2002-06-20T05:49:39Z")
I have a customized My Yahoo page. It has headline news, local news and weather, sports scores, airfares, maps, Movie & DVD release info, tech & entertainment news and pet tips. ---
**Author:** ![Vaioman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ecccb3/32.png) [@Vaioman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vaioman)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-home-page/115020/3 "2002-06-20T06:46:05Z")
about:blank ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-home-page/115020/4 "2002-06-20T06:51:14Z")
Internet Explorer - [www.bbc.co.uk](http://www.bbc.co.uk) Opera - None ---
**Author:** ![dead0man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@dead0man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dead0man)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-home-page/115020/5 "2002-06-20T06:55:15Z")
google of course dead0man ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-home-page/115020/6 "2002-06-20T07:00:00Z")
eBay Australia ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-home-page/115020/7 "2002-06-20T07:10:18Z")
My own home page. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-home-page/115020/8 "2002-06-20T07:52:31Z")
[http://www.macfixit.com](http://www.macfixit.com) Just so I know what’s going on in Macland… ---
**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-home-page/115020/9 "2002-06-20T08:15:01Z")
Yahoo! UK ---
**Author:** ![Caught\_Work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Caught\_Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caught_Work)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-home-page/115020/10 "2002-06-20T10:54:44Z")
[google.com](http://google.com) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-home-page/115020/11 "2002-06-20T11:02:48Z")
about:blank ---
**Author:** ![Mystery\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@Mystery\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mystery_Dog)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-home-page/115020/12 "2002-06-20T11:23:43Z")
Same as Boscibo. [http://my.yahoo.com/](http://my.yahoo.com/) ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-home-page/115020/13 "2002-06-20T12:52:27Z")
At home, I have ESPN. At work, I just use our intranet home page. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-home-page/115020/14 "2002-06-20T13:42:31Z")
I have mine set to my own personal web site. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-home-page/115020/15 "2002-06-20T13:48:06Z")
Google – it loads quickly, and it’s the page I’m most likely to use for a work-related search, which is the usual reason I open Opera. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-home-page/115020/16 "2002-06-20T13:54:18Z")
Google, one of the fastest loading pages on the net. I read somewhere that the frontpage is only 14k. Seeing as the logo.gif is 8.35 k, that seems about right. ---
**Author:** ![Belrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-home-page/115020/17 "2002-06-20T16:19:25Z")
I’ve got a local HTML file that I use for a homepage. It’s got a 2x4 table of all my most common links. It’s great because since it comes off the hard drive, it pops up almost instantaneously. It has direct links to most of the SMDB forums, too. ---
**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-home-page/115020/18 "2002-06-20T22:21:35Z")
> **[Straight Dope Message Board](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb)** > > Fighting Ignorance Since 1973 😉 just kidding about:blank for me too. Hate waiting for a page to load at startup (though Google would be an OK second choice) ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-home-page/115020/19 "2002-06-20T23:52:32Z")
I used to have my LiveJournal friends page, but currently I have the Brunching Shuttlecocks page. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2002, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-home-page/115020/20 "2002-06-21T02:15:06Z")
ISP’s website I always check email as soon as I go online [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-home-page/115020.md?page=2)