# Tell me about your web browser's "start" page. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 22, 2014, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-web-browsers-start-page/696153 "2014-08-22T00:27:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-web-browsers-start-page/696153/41 "2014-08-22T21:18:24Z")
If it’s a company computer, the company’s internal web portal. Yaaay. If it’s any computer or portable device I have any say in, the [unadorned google search page](http://www.google.com). Preferably with the more obnoxious features neutered with Greasemonkey or something. ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-web-browsers-start-page/696153/42 "2014-08-22T21:21:06Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > My mom’s computer is set up with two homepages (Facebook and Gmail since those are pretty much the only two sites she uses.) It’s pretty easy to do that in Firefox. > > I personally just don’t use a homepage at all. I restore my browser session every time I sit down to a computer. Since Firefox won’t actually load the tabs until I click on them, it works well. > > Now, I don’t keep hundreds of tabs open, and I do regularly prune them down. But my point is that there’s always a page still open when I sit down to my computer. > > Back when I did use a homepage, it was usually blank. But that was as much for avoiding loading wait times than anything. There’s just never been any one site I want to visit more than 50% of the time. > > The closest was Yahoo, who had this page you could completely customize to have info from every site in one place. But I think I liked it more for the tech than because it was convenient. Now I get it. Thanks for clarifying! ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-web-browsers-start-page/696153/43 "2014-08-22T21:27:32Z")
Opening Chrome results in 11 tabs: the SDMB, IRC chat, Facebook, 4 Magic-related forums, EZTV, Gmail, Twitter, and Imgur. The order in which I visit them varies. ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-web-browsers-start-page/696153/44 "2014-08-22T21:40:51Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > Opening Chrome results in 11 tabs: the SDMB, IRC chat, Facebook, 4 Magic-related forums, EZTV, Gmail, Twitter, and Imgur. The order in which I visit them varies. How do these pages appear? I mean, do you have to press a button of some sort, or does the browser automatically load them when you open a new window or what? ---
**Author:** ![MoonMoon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonmoon/32/2959_2.png) [@MoonMoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoonMoon)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-web-browsers-start-page/696153/45 "2014-08-22T22:07:43Z")
Google, because the first thing I do is sign into Gmail. (Home and work, both) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-web-browsers-start-page/696153/46 "2014-08-23T00:47:59Z")
> [@B.Serum](#): > > By homepage, what exactly do you mean? Like your own personal/business website page? Yes, I have a homepage. guanolad dot com. There’s nothing interesting there, but I’ve done it since I first bought the domain, before there were other standardised homepages like Google News or whatever other people use, and I’ve become so used to it that it’s become a good way for me to know if things are working when I open my browser. ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-web-browsers-start-page/696153/47 "2014-08-23T01:20:16Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Yes, I have a homepage. guanolad dot com. There’s nothing interesting there, but I’ve done it since I first bought the domain, before there were other standardised homepages like Google News or whatever other people use, and I’ve become so used to it that it’s become a good way for me to know if things are working when I open my browser. Got it — thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluffy_PickleSniffer)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-web-browsers-start-page/696153/48 "2014-08-23T01:42:26Z")
I’m an oddball - this is my homepage: [http://www.weather.gov/](http://www.weather.gov/) ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-web-browsers-start-page/696153/49 "2014-08-23T02:14:06Z")
It launches with three tabs: My customized Google News page, Gmail and Twitter. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-web-browsers-start-page/696153/50 "2014-08-23T04:42:48Z")
I use Chrome. I have it set to load whatever tabs were open when I shut it down the last time. I presume whichever tab was selected last is the one that will be on top when I reboot Chrome. ---
**Author:** ![ryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@ryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryan)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-web-browsers-start-page/696153/51 "2014-08-23T10:51:00Z")
[Google.com](http://Google.com) on my desktop, both Chrome and Firefox (IE is disabled). A blank page on my Android tablet and my i4 cell. ---
**Author:** ![kk\_fusion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kk_fusion/32/15276_2.png) [@kk\_fusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kk_fusion)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-web-browsers-start-page/696153/53 "2014-09-02T14:23:19Z")
Empty page; the first one I typically request is Google or Youtube search results via script. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-web-browsers-start-page/696153/54 "2014-09-02T15:37:39Z")
> [@DrCube](#): > > The tabs from last time. This. I tend to keep lots of tabs open, and don’t want to have to reopen them all by hand every time I restart the browser or the computer. They include Gmail, SDMB, Fb, Amazon, and a bunch of stuff for work. Once upon a time, I maintained a My.Yahoo page, which was the starting point for any new tabs. But they recently “improved” that service to the point where it became useless and I deleted it from my list. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-web-browsers-start-page/696153/55 "2014-09-02T20:35:30Z")
> [@GESancMan](#): > > My home page is Google. > > My morning routine is to check my email (Gmail), then Facebook, then the SDMB. Pretty much, different places but Google, yea. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-web-browsers-start-page/696153/56 "2014-09-02T20:57:25Z")
At work, Google. At home, I may proudly say the same-at last! After the disappearance of my silly little netbook, I found a good deal on a shiny new laptop at one of the shopping networks. With Microsoft Office included! Alas, Windows 8.1 was also included. I managed to whip that into shape, but continued to have weird problems. Like something called the Tuvaro browser opening when I opened Chrome. I screwed with the settings, but could not get rid of it. The laptop was loaded with “free” software–mostly utilities of questionable utility, which kept popping up. And ads, everywhere. There were also problems with Windows 8’s accursed blobs–the Netflix one did not run & the Kindle one told me to connect to the network–when I was connected. I located Uninstall under all the junk but that didn’t help much. A bit of research convinced me to buy a Malware hunter. Two slow scans located a couple of thousand pieces of malware, adware, etc. Then got rid of them. Last time I checked, the annyoing ads had disappeared. Along with the mysterious problems with certain applications. And the Tuvaro browser has been replaced with dull old Google… ---
**Author:** ![Arabella\_Flynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@Arabella\_Flynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arabella_Flynn)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-web-browsers-start-page/696153/57 "2014-09-03T06:11:24Z")
I use Chrome, synched across a Mac, a Windows laptop, and a Linux laptop. The initial page is Google Search, with three or four most often-viewed pages as thumbnails. I think they’re Gmail, Facebook, and Google Maps/the remote work portal I’m always using Google Maps to do research for. Don’t quote me on that, because I haven’t seen it in weeks. I don’t shut computers down; I shut the lid, so the browser almost always has whatever thirty-four or -five tabs I had open when last I poked at it. In the rare event the browser crashes, it’s set to reload previous tabs on restart. I have Chrome synched across machines partly so that if something catastrophically disagrees with the Chrome installation on one OS and tanks the browser, I can open a different computer and give it a whirl with a slightly different set of plugins. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-web-browsers-start-page/696153/58 "2014-09-03T06:14:25Z")
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