# What's Your Homepage? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 28, 2011, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386 "2011-11-28T23:46:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tomcar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tomcar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomcar)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/1 "2011-11-28T23:46:48Z")
I got a iMac recently (which I love) but Yahoo Mail doesn’t work so well with Safari on it. No love lost, I use the computer’s mail app but I need a new homepage. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/2 "2011-11-29T00:06:50Z")
New York Times. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/3 "2011-11-29T00:12:15Z")
Google. If I want news, I know where to find it. ---
**Author:** ![DaveBfd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DaveBfd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveBfd)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/4 "2011-11-29T00:39:09Z")
A second for google ---
**Author:** ![tomcar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tomcar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomcar)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/5 "2011-11-29T01:00:50Z")
Basic Google Search or iGoogle? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/6 "2011-11-29T01:14:02Z")
Google. ---
**Author:** ![houmildex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7bcc69/32.png) [@houmildex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/houmildex)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/7 "2011-11-29T01:15:52Z")
Google for me also. ---
**Author:** ![ASanders](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asanders/32/3367_2.png) [@ASanders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASanders)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/8 "2011-11-29T01:25:09Z")
iGoogle here, with mail, weather, and a to-do list gadget. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/9 "2011-11-29T01:39:30Z")
> [@tomcar](#): > > Basic Google Search or iGoogle? Basic Google. I want my home page as clean as possible (even the Google Doodles can be distracting, although I love them). ---
**Author:** ![Cap\_n\_Obvious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@Cap\_n\_Obvious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cap_n_Obvious)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/10 "2011-11-29T01:58:38Z")
A firefox extension that mimics chrome’s default home tab thing. In the center it shows my 9 most viewed web pages, to the right are two boxes. One showing my recently closed pages, and another showing my recent bookmarks. Above those is a google search box. ---
**Author:** ![slm2955](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@slm2955](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slm2955)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/11 "2011-11-29T02:02:57Z")
Google ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/12 "2011-11-29T02:05:52Z")
My homepage setting automatically opens gmail, Google calendar, Facebook, the Straight Dope and Urban75. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/13 "2011-11-29T04:34:16Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > Basic Google. I want my home page as **clean as possible** (even the Google Doodles can be distracting, although I love them). about:blank It’s even cleaner-than-possible! When I want to go to any actual web page, I will go there. ETA: Tried to put that about:blank inside tags but it doesn’t work. ETA some more: And f-ck Yahoo for throwing up that og-damn popup everytime I log out of mail asking if I want to make it my home page! ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/14 "2011-11-29T04:37:29Z")
Google Calendar I take one look at it every morning then close it and open 4 other tabs. It was Google’s search engine for many years but I use the search bar thingy in Firefox now. No need to go to [Google.com](http://Google.com). ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/15 "2011-11-29T04:49:18Z")
iGoogle ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/16 "2011-11-29T06:07:58Z")
[Excite](http://www.excite.com) Started with it years before google was born. I’m just used to it as a portal and especially that I can add my own links to it. Straightdope, eBay, my banks, and groups for my hobbies. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Ed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Just\_Ed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Ed)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/17 "2011-11-29T23:46:51Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > about:blank > > It’s even cleaner-than-possible! > > When I want to go to any actual web page, I will go there. Same here. I’ve never found much use for a home page or home page tabs of any kind. I think this may be more indicative of the way people use their browsers, though. For example, I don’t keep my browser open at all times; I may be doing things in other applications, and I actually do use separate programs for e-mail and news feeds, so I’m not using the browser directly for those things. I imagine a home page or home tabs would be more useful if my browser stayed open, but it doesn’t, and I don’t need or want any one specific page or set of pages to populate when I open it, which may be for any one of a dozen different reasons. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/18 "2011-11-30T00:23:29Z")
about:blank Anything else makes me stabby. Why would I want to wait for a web page–which is probably not the page I’m after–to load before I can put in the page I REALLY want?? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/19 "2011-11-30T00:43:30Z")
MyYahoo, customized. Does that make me old? ---
**Author:** ![StarsApart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecc23a/32.png) [@StarsApart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarsApart)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/20 "2011-11-30T01:48:54Z")
iGoogle. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386.md?page=2)