# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![luv2draw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@luv2draw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luv2draw)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/21 "2011-11-30T01:53:28Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > 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?? Because with Safari you can open other tabs and go to websites while your homepage is loading (your homepage becomes the first tab) if you want.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/22 "2011-11-30T01:58:47Z")
Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Documents and Google Music. Calendar and Documents get closed after reviewing them. Gmail and Music stay open for as long as my computer is turned on. I don’t see what the point is in going directly to [Google.com](http://Google.com). Both Firefox and Chrome can be set to search Google directly from the main address bar. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/23 "2011-11-30T02:03:03Z")
These days using Opera, it’s the quickdial page. Very useful. Other browsers I’ll point to google. ---
**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:** [November 30, 2011, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/24 "2011-11-30T02:06:38Z")
At home, it’s Google. No advanced settings or iGoogle, just plain old Google. At work, it’s the agency’s intranet page and I have no control over it. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/25 "2011-11-30T02:08:06Z")
Google. ---
**Author:** ![obbn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d6d6ee/32.png) [@obbn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obbn)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/26 "2011-11-30T04:08:32Z")
Fark and the SD open in one browser in two tabs. ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/27 "2011-11-30T13:14:21Z")
The Dope. I have made bookmarks (keyword searches) for various search engines to go with the address bar, so I rarely go to the front pages of, say, Google or Wikipedia. If I hadn’t done that it would probably be one of those two. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/28 "2011-11-30T13:50:49Z")
Google. It used to be iGoogle with all the little custom widgets and things but I realized that I never really looked at any of that shit. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/29 "2011-11-30T13:56:18Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > about:blank > > It’s even cleaner-than-possible! Okay now I have to change mine. I’ve had about:tabs for a while now and I love not presupposing what I want. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/30 "2011-11-30T13:59:38Z")
Standard Google. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/31 "2011-11-30T14:00:39Z")
Don’t most people have the google search bar thing in their browser? Seems kinda silly to have google as your homepage if you don’t need it to initialize a search. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/32 "2011-11-30T14:22:34Z")
I have been using myYahoo for a long time. I have it set up with various news feeds, my investments, and my primary email address is a Yahoo address. I guess this makes me as old as **John Mace**. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/33 "2011-11-30T15:11:49Z")
MyYahoo ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/34 "2011-11-30T15:15:34Z")
Google on my main browser and the SDMB homepage on my secondary one. ---
**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, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/35 "2011-11-30T16:00:23Z")
> [@luv2draw](#): > > Because with Safari you can open other tabs and go to websites while your homepage is loading (your homepage becomes the first tab) if you want.😃 Well I can do that with Chrome or Firefox, too, but the point is–what are the chances that the “home” page is one I want to load at all in any given session? It’s much better for me to just have it open a blank page. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/36 "2011-11-30T21:23:47Z")
It was Google. It is now Bing. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/37 "2011-11-30T21:47:36Z")
I’m either an iconoclast or an anachronism having the NYT as my home page. I like to get a fast glance at weather and world news when I open my browser, and I have the Google toolbar installed with favorites right there, so I can search or go to the Dope, mail, wherever with one click. I just searched and can’t find an example of Google’s actual home page. Is it just the blank-looking page with the search box in the middle, or is it an actual news page that you can customize? ---
**Author:** ![Chopper9760](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Chopper9760](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chopper9760)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/38 "2011-11-30T22:49:09Z")
Mozilla Google - that way I never see the ever-changing Google logo, it’s the same every day. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/39 "2011-11-30T22:52:21Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > MyYahoo, customized. Does that make me old? That’s the same as my 67 year old and very foreign mother. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/40 "2011-11-30T23:34:58Z")
I use a news page so I can see if the world has ended since I went to bed. Right now it’s [http://news.yahoo.com/](http://news.yahoo.com/) . Sometimes I use the Google news page. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386.md?page=3)