When you open up your internet, what is the first page that pops up?
For me, it is foxnews.
CNN, I never watch TV, so I want to see if the Earth has been destroyed during the night.
Google. I dislike “busy” pages and google’s convenient for if I want to look something up.
Google here as well. They keep their main page simple and uncluttered, opens up easy, and is still the best search engine out there, so far as I know.
The page that my ISP provides as a “home page”. Nothing whatsoever forces me to use that, but it’s a decent page so I go along with it.
The Straight Dope!
Can’t believe you folks are so disloyal… who needs the news, anyway? 
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I have no preference and it loads faster that way. It’s a hold over from being on dial-up.
How do you set another website as your home page? I have AOL, so the default AOL “opening page” is what comes up. I didn’t know there was an alternative.
SDMB, of course!
I use opera, with many tabs in one shell, and I continue browsing from last time. I regularily have pages from allmusic, straightdope, wikipedia plus whatever other pages I’ve been meaning to read lately. If I open new tabs, they’re blank.
You don’t have to use the AOL browser. If you have AOL as your provider, you can log in and still use internet explorer. From there you can go to tools, internet options, and make sure the internet is on the web page you want to use. Click Use Current. Every time you open internet explorer, this will be the page that loads.
Okay, I managed to set the Dope as the home page on Internet Explorer, but there’s no way to do that on AOL?
On my PC, Google; for the reasons mentioned by others. And when I was using my PC it was on a dial-up, so Google loaded quickly.
Now I use the Mac. I’ve never changed the home page from Apple’s start page. (Using cable now.)
Not if you are using the AOL start up page when you dial up using them as a provider. AT LEAST not to my knowledge.
I have a custom start page. Our ISP gives us 20 MB webspace with each email address, so I’ve got about six web sites floating around. My home page is a list of my favourite links, and sometimes a picture of my dog. 
I play around with it occasionally, practising HTML.
I used to just use yahoo.com. I didn’t like how cluttered it was, but I used it over google becuase I like the rotating news headlines (I do open my browser probably 50 times a day), but then they started in the the flash graphics which I dealt with, then the final straw, some part of their page took about 6 or 7 seconds to load, so just as I finished typing my search string, the page would finish loading and it would clear the search box. Now I just use search.yahoo.com, which is great becuase ALL that’s on that page is the seach box and a few headlines.
Mine is chicagotribune.com.
Mine is Google.
The personalized Google homepage.
In addition to the search engine, I have it displaying my gmail inbox, dictionary.com’s word of the day (confute), weather in my hometown and in DC, and local movie showtimes.
My home page is Yahoo Mail, because the first thing I do whenever I’m online is check my e-mail.