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

[JB99]

Google

Why “ncr?” Because I travel frequently and Google always wants to show me the host country’s website. “No Country Redirect” means it remains on the default English site.

[not_what_you_d_expect]

PBS News. I really don’t pay much attention to it though so it might be good to change to something else.

I’m on twitter and reddit a lot more than I used to be so I may consider one of those for a change.

[Jasmine]

I use the Google home page because it is a quick load and because I normally use Google several times a day.

[naita]

Default page is google, since I use Chrome and see no reason to change it. I open some pages almost every day by starting to type the url, like nyt.com and washingtonpost.com. Why not keep the tabs open? Because I use tabs a bit like a “to-do” system and want to keep it tidy.

I open a bunch of online comics daily by right clicking the bookmark folder and choosing “open all”.

[Quimby]

Years ago I used My Yahoo. Eventually I used that less and less and now I just open Chrome’s default page which has the half dozen pages I use most right there.

[FairyChatMom]

Google

[DCnDC]

Google

[KidCharlemagne]

@ThelmaLou

Here’s a screen shot 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.

Do you notice a big increase in loading time between, say, a blank google search page and your fully tricked out Protopage?

[Zeldar]

1. Yahoo!
2. Email (WebMail)
3. Intellicast (weather)
4. SDMB

“Home Page” is Yahoo!

[control-z]

I don’t really have a home page, clicking Home in Firefox just takes me to the Firefox start page, which includes pinned and commonly visited sites.

[Jophiel]

Google. Loads fast and sometimes I’m actually even opening my browser to look stuff up.

[ThelmaLou]

@KidCharlemagne

Do you notice a big increase in loading time between, say, a blank google search page and your fully tricked out Protopage?

Nope. Instantaneous in both cases. Everything on my protopage is a link. Just text. Not pictures or video. Nothing to slow down opening. And that applies to my kindle as well as to my computer with 16G of RAM.

[DrCube]

“Open tabs from last time” or “continue where you left off”.

[Doctor_Jackson]

I use igHome, customized to my tastes. It is very similar to the old IGoogle home page.

[Rick_Kitchen]

My home page is Facebook.

[That_Don_Guy]

At home, I have the “upcoming episodes page” I maintain on the Simpsons Archive website.

At work, I use the National Weather Service local forecast page (type in your ZIP code in the upper left box, then save the resulting page’s URL)

[Napier]

I use a text file on my hard drive that I typed in, with pasted-in URLs from about 20 of my favorites. It always loads very fast and there are no ads.

[IvoryTowerDenizen]

At works it’s my university’s home page. At home it’s Google News.

[Paintcharge]

Open previous tabs.

[Onomatopoeia]

Google. A search bar is all I ever need.