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. Preferably with the more obnoxious features neutered with Greasemonkey or something.
Now I get it. Thanks for clarifying!
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?
Google, because the first thing I do is sign into Gmail. (Home and work, both)
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!
I’m an oddball - this is my homepage: http://www.weather.gov/
It launches with three tabs: My customized Google News page, Gmail and Twitter.
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.
Google.com on my desktop, both Chrome and Firefox (IE is disabled). A blank page on my Android tablet and my i4 cell.
Empty page; the first one I typically request is Google or Youtube search results via script.
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.
Pretty much, different places but Google, yea. 
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…
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.
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