My computer has this as the homepage. It belongs to my husband and I am not even sure what it is. I think it is gaming related.
about:blank here as well. Google, CNN, Weather, stDope and others are my one click away quicklinks at the top of the browser.
I’m at work, so it’s set on my organisation’s intranet page.
I have a custom page (saved locally). It’s got a bunch of links that I use on a fairly regular basis, and some that I use less often.
The first pages I check each day are: CNN, BBC News, Ninemsn News, ABC News, Straight Dope, Boing Boing and Cute Overload (counterweight to all those depressing news sites). Later in the day I check my other message boards and Worth 1000. The Hunger Site is the most prominent link on my custom page to try to remind me to visit it daily.
For whatever reason, I’ve done little at all to customize my computer at home. My startup page is still the homepage of my net provider.
At work, it’s my portfolio page at Yahoo.
Blank.
For whatever reason, I can’t break myself of the habit of launching a web browser and typing an address. It’s almost like I expect to browse the web or something. (And yes, I usually type URLs, at least short ones. I have bookmarks, but I can type much faster than I can locate a bookmark and click on it.).
But then the browser designers left in the STUPID feature that once a web page completes, EVEN IF YOU’RE IN THE MIDDLE OF TYPING A URL, it refreshes the web address and throws away what you’re typing. I dare anyone to offer a circumstance under which that’s what the user desired.
This happens to me roughly 100% of the time when I use someone’s computer who has a home page set. Since I’m not consistent about where I want to go, I don’t want it harassing me by loading a page (even at 6Mpbs DSL).
I’ve got Google and Dictionary.com in my toolbar, though, so those are always available even in a blank window.
Google.
Or, when I have friends over, this google.
Google, on all of my machines. The one at work gets reset periodically to the worksite’s homepage, and I dutifully change it back.
If I’m getting into the internet, 75% of the time it’s because I want to search for an answer.