# What do you use as your browser default/home/start page?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 30, 2018, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-as-your-browser-default-home-start-page/822232 "2018-09-30T22:36:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-as-your-browser-default-home-start-page/822232/12 "2018-10-01T01:56:50Z")

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> [@Recommend me a new homepage](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-new-homepage/678104/2):
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> Every time someone asks this question, I always answer
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> [www.protopage.com](http://www.protopage.com)
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> Free and fully customizable including background colors. I have boxes with my often-used links (about 20 of them including this board), rss links to top 15 stories in NY Times, Atlantic, Christian Science Monitor, CNN, Time, Wired, plus Rotten Tomatoes, and a few others. I have a calendar, a digital clock, a list of my top stocks with updating prices, a widget with phases of the moon. The free version has an ad banner at the top, but if you scroll down a bit, you can hide it. You can also have multiple tabs. There’s nothing visible on the page that you don’t put there.
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> I change the colors to match whatever wallpaper I’m currently using, as I don’t like my active windows filling the whole screen.

Here’s a [screen shot](https://imgur.com/a/rzfI1pi) of my current one. It extends down farther than I could fit in the screen shot. And yes, I do have to scroll down. I love having everything there and I make only minimal use of bookmarks. My current wallpaper is a slideshow of stars and galaxies, so this looks cool on top of that. When I switch wallpaper, I change the colors to match. Makes me happy.

In the quick links column, you can link to anything that has a link. There are ready-made widgets, but some of you clever types can prolly figure out how to create your own widgets.

And yes, I need an analog AND a digital clock. So sue me.

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