Both browsers (Firefox and Chrome) open to the tabs from my previous session.
My actual home page on both browsers is a set of tiles…links to frequently visited websites in Firefox, and useful engineering links in Chrome.
My homepage opens to Google. Feels like half the time my reason for opening a browser window is to search for something anyway, so half the time I get to skip a step. The rest of the time I get to type in whatever URL I actually need.
This. Having a homepage is like having a cluttered desktop. Bothers the hell outta me. I had to download a Chrome extension to make the new tab page blank.
Blank. Had to go fiddle with the Firefox configuration to get rid of that annoying thumbnail page that it wants to display instead of a blank page, too. Very annoying.
All my browsers are set to Google and have been for years. This is mostly because Google is very light weight, and so loads quickly, but also because, 5 times out of ten, I have opened my browser to Google something.
I have been doing this so long that I get momentarily disoriented when working on someone else’s computer and I launch the browser and something else loads instead.
The Mozilla Firefox Start Page.
In Chrome, the new tab page with my top 8 websites. In Opera, it goes to whatever I had open last. Facebook is generally the first place I go.
I use Chrome so Google.
I rarely use IE but I took the time to make Google my home page there as well. And got rid of all that Microsoft toolbar crap including the search that defaults to Bing.
Don’t use Firefox at all.
One browser open My.Yahoo page (yes I live in the mid 2000s). The other opens Chrome’s default page which is Google plus the six pages you visit most.
Google. Lightweight and loads quickly.
I use Chrome, and I have it set to open whatever tabs were open when I last closed it. My ‘homepage’ is the default Chrome start page, but I rarely see that.
about:blank
Blank page
One tab with TV listings (TitanTV), and a second tab with Google.
My personal computer, it’s Google, because it loads quickly.
At my work computer, it’s my college’s home page, because it has links to stuff I need to do for work.
I’m not sure I understand. I’m assuming these are the first three places you navigate to.
Are any of these set to be your browser’s home page?
Do any of them load when you open a new browser window?
Varies with machine and browser. The laptop in my man cave opens to Pandora, since that computer is only used for music. Desktop computer at work is google search. Desktop at home is a shared machine and my wife has Firefox set for Yahoo. She also uses IE on that machine and I think MSNBC is the homepage she uses.
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.