And tonnes better than any TV morning “news”
I have a multiple tab home page with gmail, yahoo mail and this website.
I didn’t see anyone with the SDMB as their home page. You mean there is another source of news and current events ? 
Blank page. There isn’t really any site I consider ‘home’ (not even my own).
I use protopage.com. I have it customized with news feeds of my choice (NYTimes, WSJ, NPR, Guardian, TIME, Wired, ThisWeek), my frequent web links (about 20 of them), phases of the moon, and some inspirational pictures, including one of my two dogs and two cats in a family portrait on the sofa. You can change the background colors to suit your mood (I change them to suit my current wallpaper, as I never expand windows to fill the whole screen). I don’t use gmail or google+ and only use google to search.
ETA: I always open to a blank screen, but click the home button to bring up my protopage and leave that window always open in the background. I always have multiple windows open–never got used to multiple tabs.
Same.
I have been using a My Yahoo! Home page for years. Like some others who have posted, I like being presented with a “morning newspaper” when I first sign on, and I return to it from time to time during the day. My page has news sections, weather info, sports scores, and my investments. It has a Google search window as well. The first two bookmarks in my list are SDMB and Wikipedia.
13 tabs in Firefox but only the one I was last using refreshes when I start Firefox each time. The rest don’t refresh until chosen.
Google.com on most computers.
But I also use a custom google.com.html page I made that is a copy of their older clean and simple search page that doesn’t start jumping around as soon as you start typing. Searches submitted from that page still work fine when sent to Google.
Me, too. I saw that announcement and promptly went back to the old Google page. I’d love to go back to Yahoo, but my Android phone no likey Yahoo.
Google. I have an iGoogle, but I change my e-mail login so often since Google bought YouTube that it’s more of a pain than anything.
I have been using iGoogle forever, and am pissed about it going away. I have my email, calendar, and reader widgets set up, as well as a notepad and bookmarks all on that page. And a little timer for brewing tea. 
Perhaps it’s time I actually built something from scratch.
Drudgereport.com
Ignoring the obvious right wing bias to what articles are chosen especially downpage, it is lightweight (loads quickly), and almost always has true breaking news up before any other single online news outlet (such as the healthcare ruling, etc).
I have four: Facebook, The-W.com (message board), The Order of the Stick (webcomic), and this message board, added only yesterday.
Protopage.com is very customizable.
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve already set up my new homepage and with all the same news feeds and most of the widgets I used on iGoogle. It will be an acceptable replacement.
Work: the home page of my company’s intranet.
Home: plain ol’ google.com. Not that I use that computer much these days.