# What is your home page set on? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 2, 2006, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-home-page-set-on/371196 "2006-09-02T12:38:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-home-page-set-on/371196/21 "2006-09-02T14:49:47Z")
The homepage of my postal games’ referee. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-home-page-set-on/371196/22 "2006-09-02T14:53:30Z")
B.B.C. News front page, [FirstFoot.com](http://FirstFoot.com) (a Scottish message board), my Gmail inbox, and the Hunger Site (to remind me to click, and after clicking, I then change that to to the Dope - see, me not disloyal! 🙂 Basically a tab for looking at news sites, one for message boards, and one for mail, then I, of course end up with lots more open. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-home-page-set-on/371196/23 "2006-09-02T14:56:17Z")
[QUOTE=Licentious Ectomorph] Okay, I managed to set the Dope as the home page on Internet Explorer, but there’s no way to do that on AOL? [/QUOTE] I only ever use AOL at my parents’ house, but AFAIK, no, with AOL itself, you are stuck with their own annoying page. Dad puts up with it, but I ignore the thing and open Firefox, so that I get a normal choice of what I want to see. (Boo, hiss, I have to visit there today, damn AOL) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-home-page-set-on/371196/24 "2006-09-02T14:59:56Z")
My startup page used to be CNN. But then I had to admit, I loved books even more than up to the moment world news. Now it’s Amazon. ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-home-page-set-on/371196/25 "2006-09-02T15:45:16Z")
I use Mozilla with multiple Tabs saved as a group… [IWon.com](http://IWon.com) MSWatch > **[College Sports News and Recruiting](https://247sports.com/)** > > Stay up to date with all the College sports news, recruiting, transfers, and more at 247Sports.com The Cleveland Indians website > **[CBS Sports - News, Live Scores, Schedules, Fantasy Games, Video and more.](https://www.cbssports.com/)** > > CBS Sports features live scoring, news, stats, and player info for NFL football, MLB baseball, NBA basketball, NHL hockey, college basketball and football. The Cleveland Browns website & The Straightdope frontpage During basketball season I add in the Cavaliers homepage too. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-home-page-set-on/371196/26 "2006-09-02T16:46:40Z")
[QUOTE=yelimS] 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. [/QUOTE] Me too, mostly – but I keep the start-up prompt on, so I can choose between starting where I left off (if, for example, I went to bed with several SDMB threads in progress, or in the middle of researching something,) or with my home page (the elegant, austere, and eminently practical Google,) or with a saved window set-up (eg; a tab for every SDMB forum, or one with all the contracting sites I use, or job boards, or the one that has all the news aggregate sites I typically check over my morning coffee, or whatever.) ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-home-page-set-on/371196/27 "2006-09-02T16:47:19Z")
[QUOTE=yelimS] 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. [/QUOTE] I use Firefox and do the same thing with tabs. I’m constantly changing tabs so the browser opens towhatever I was last viewing. I do use a Firefox extension that allows me to create my own URL list where I can select “Open in Tabs” and every URL in the list I have opens in its own tab. Rather convenient when I want to scan some regular sites all at once, regarless of the current status of my browser. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-home-page-set-on/371196/28 "2006-09-02T16:52:00Z")
The Netscape equivalent of about:blank, which is just a check box in Preferences. ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-home-page-set-on/371196/29 "2006-09-02T17:30:27Z")
[QUOTE=Sierra Indigo] Google. I dislike “busy” pages and google’s convenient for if I want to look something up. [/QUOTE] An emphatic ditto here! ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-home-page-set-on/371196/30 "2006-09-02T17:33:04Z")
My Yahoo. There are probably better alternatives out there nowadays but I never get around to searching them out, and besides it gives me easy access to my Yahoo inbox (I use that email address for any entertainment related mailing lists). I have it set to display (left to right, top to bottom): - A set of bookmarks I read daily most of the time (my livejournal friends page, [the Fusco Brothers](http://www.uclick.com/client/wpc/fu/), [the Comics Curmudgeon](http://www.joshreads.com/), [Medium Large](http://www.drinkatwork.com/mediumlarge.html), [Penny Arcade](http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic), The Straight Dope, [Twisting the Hellmouth](http://www.tthfanfic.com/), and [Wraithbait](http://www.wraithbait.com/) ) - My Inbox - Stock information (DJIA and my company’s stock) - Yahoo! AP Entertainment news (four headlines) - BBC News Front Page (five headlines) - New Jersey lottery results - [The Register](http://www.theregister.co.uk/) (five headlines) - [Slashdot](http://slashdot.org/) (ten headlines) - TV listings for today - Movie showtimes from our preferred theater - Search box ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-home-page-set-on/371196/31 "2006-09-02T17:43:56Z")
Personalized Google page here as well, with Gmail, weather, IMDB news, quote of the day, how-to of the day, this day in history, Netflix new releases, new Snopes, HowStuffWorks, Word of the Day and World Sex News. I love Google! ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-home-page-set-on/371196/32 "2006-09-02T18:34:38Z")
[CNN.com](http://CNN.com) I like to check the news first thing. ---
**Author:** ![brendon\_small](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brendon_small/32/17101_2.png) [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-home-page-set-on/371196/33 "2006-09-02T18:43:25Z")
It was Yahoo for a long time, but recently my university made the email program a bit nicer, and it’s the email I use for anything school related, so I keep it set as my homepage so I remember to check it first (especially since I tutor kids and they email me with questions sometimes)… Brendon ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-home-page-set-on/371196/34 "2006-09-02T18:45:13Z")
I’m another [Google.com](http://Google.com) guy. I loads very quick and gets me started fast. I have both Home and Work set to [www.google.com](http://www.google.com). Jim ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-home-page-set-on/371196/35 "2006-09-02T19:04:17Z")
My home home page is the New York Times. My work home page is the website of the institution for which I work. ---
**Author:** ![buncombe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@buncombe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buncombe)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-home-page-set-on/371196/36 "2006-09-02T19:33:40Z")
[http://www.aldaily.com/](http://www.aldaily.com/) . Brilliant site for the wanna-be intellectual who doesn’t have the time to keep up. ---
**Author:** ![Merhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Merhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merhouse)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-home-page-set-on/371196/37 "2006-09-02T19:45:06Z")
My “official” start page is my ISP’s homepage even though I hardly ever use it. I generally use a shortcut on my desktop to [pogo.com](http://pogo.com) as my real start page, just because I like playing games, and I also use the Yahoo! toolbar so I can see if I have mail there and stuff. Interestingly, I’ve also used AOL forever, and until today I never even realized you couldn’t set a different start page in their browser :smack: It’s been so long since I didn’t just use a favorite place to open their web browser, I just never gave it a second thought. The things you learn here 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FormerMarineGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/65b543/32.png) [@FormerMarineGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FormerMarineGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-home-page-set-on/371196/38 "2006-09-02T19:54:37Z")
[QUOTE=buncombe] [http://www.aldaily.com/](http://www.aldaily.com/) . Brilliant site for the wanna-be intellectual who doesn’t have the time to keep up. [/QUOTE] I checked your wanna-be intellectual site out and the first thing I see is: > [@](#): > > Bloodthirsty chimps, sex-crazed bonobos, the origins of family, feuding and friendship: Frans de Waal on our near relations… more» ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-home-page-set-on/371196/39 "2006-09-02T20:20:22Z")
Yet another vote for Google. I don’t really use it much since I have the Google tool bar, it loads quickly and I use it enough that I keep it set up that way. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-home-page-set-on/371196/40 "2006-09-02T20:24:09Z")
At home, google At work, the main site for the school where I work [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-home-page-set-on/371196.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-home-page-set-on/371196.md?page=3)