What's Your Homepage? Find Out What Others Use

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Discussion Overview

The discussion revolves around participants sharing their preferred homepage settings in various web browsers. The scope includes personal preferences, technical experiences with different browsers, and the functionality of homepages in relation to frequently visited sites.

Discussion Character

  • Exploratory
  • Technical explanation
  • Debate/contested

Main Points Raised

  • Some participants mention using Google as their homepage due to its fast loading times and ease of access for searches.
  • Others describe using a blank page or custom pages that list frequently visited sites, noting that this can improve browser startup speed.
  • A few participants express mixed feelings about using Chrome, citing issues with video playback and page loading delays.
  • Some users report using different homepages on various devices, such as Yahoo on laptops and proprietary sites at work.
  • There are mentions of using Firefox and Opera, with some noting the flexibility of Firefox due to its plugins.
  • Several participants highlight the importance of the search bar functionality in browsers, often bypassing their homepages entirely.
  • One participant shares a specific URL as their homepage to keep track of a trivia game.
  • Some express a preference for Yahoo email over Gmail, indicating a personal bias towards certain services.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally agree on the popularity of Google as a homepage, but there are multiple competing views on the effectiveness and user experience of different browsers, particularly Chrome, Firefox, and Opera. The discussion remains unresolved regarding the best browser and homepage setup.

Contextual Notes

Some participants mention specific technical issues with browsers, such as memory leaks and video playback problems, which may depend on individual system configurations. There are also references to personal preferences that may not apply universally.

  • #31
I have firefox set to restore the previous state, so it's a different page every time. My nominal start page (in firefox settings) is the sky and telescope (magazine) site.
 
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Physics news on Phys.org
  • #32
"Nyt.com"[/URL]
 
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  • #33
Greg Bernhardt said:
ya'll are really missing out on some brownie points right now :biggrin:

How's this to up my brown nose points :rolleyes:

pfOmCheetos10mostvisitedsites.jpg
 
  • #35
Chrome thumbnails of my most-visited sites. Chrome is fast with low overhead which is pretty nice for those of us with what passes for "broad-band" connections out in the boonies. When I'd use IE or FF to enter PF FlashChat, I was always getting booted out. Connections with Chrome are stable, and I never get booted. I don't know if there are latency issues with slower connections that cause all the boots, but Chrome fixed them. Be sure to go to the options and tell Chrome to prompt you before saving any downloads, so you won't get loaded up with stuff that you only want to look at once and move along.

FF is really flexible with all its plug-ins, but all that utility comes at a cost.
 
  • #36
Google.

What else is there? lol

Actually originally I put Google as my homepage because of the computer I used to have. It would take 5 mins to load the homepage if I had it set for Yahoo! or CNN or something of that sort because my computer was terrible. And keeping it as my homepage just worked for me. I frequently search useless information enough that it's easiest lol Although maybe in that case I should make it Wikipedia... Hmmmmm..
 
  • #37
Mine opens to http://www.davesbrain.ca/portal1.html" .
 
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  • #38
davec426913 said:
mine opens to http://www.davesbrain.ca/portal1.html" .

wow!
 
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  • #39
DaveC426913 said:
Mine opens to http://www.davesbrain.ca/portal1.html" .

JavaScript
JavaScript Reference
not working.

I don't see jQuery? :biggrin:

I noticed that you encounter some problem, you search the solution and you bookmark the link. I maintain a private blog for those things. I have like 400 bookmarks and naming - categorizing each would take too much time.
 
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  • #40
Greg Bernhardt said:
ya'll are really missing out on some brownie points right now :biggrin:
MY home page is Phisicsforums dot calm!

On all of my computers!

AND my iPod.

:freegoldstatus smiley:

Edit: a minute ago, it was the New York Times front page.
 
  • #41
rootX said:
JavaScript
JavaScript Reference
not working.

I don't see jQuery? :biggrin:

I noticed that you encounter some problem, you search the solution and you bookmark the link. I maintain a private blog for those things. I have like 400 bookmarks and naming - categorizing each would take too much time.

Yeah. Some links have surely rotted by now. I haven't needed some of those JavaScript links recently. I should clean them up.


BTW, it's completely editable. One click and I can add, edit, delete or move any item.

And I wrote the whole thing myself from scratch. :approve: In PHP no less. I have long considered rewriting it in .NET but it has worked so well for so many years, I've never had any reason to modify it, let alone redo it.
 
  • #42
Hubble ultra-deep field is my wallpaper.
 
  • #43
DaveC426913 said:
Mine opens to http://www.davesbrain.ca/portal1.html" .

I snooped around your website. Man, those are some nice graphics you made. Are you a drafter/graphic artist by trade, or is it a hobby?
 
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  • #44
Loren Booda said:
Hubble ultra-deep field is my wallpaper.

I pull mine from http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html" whenever they have something good (and the right screen ratio). Right now it's the Orion Nebula.
 
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  • #45
Greg Bernhardt said:
ya'll are really missing out on some brownie points right now :biggrin:
My Firefox opens a blank page while doing the dial-up. When I get a connection, I poke my Home button which is PF. :smile:
 
  • #46
My wallpaper is the SDSS shot of M-51
 
  • #47
dlgoff said:
My Firefox opens a blank page while doing the dial-up. When I get a connection, I poke my Home button which is PF. :smile:

"Dial up"?
:confused:
"Dial up"?
:rolleyes:
"Dial up"?
 
  • #48
Chi Meson said:
"Dial up"?
:confused:
"Dial up"?
:rolleyes:
"Dial up"?
Some of us out here in the boonies still live in the dark ages.
 
  • #49
Cyrus said:
I snooped around your website. Man, those are some nice graphics you made. Are you a drafter/graphic artist by trade, or is it a hobby?

Thanks! I've been an artist all my life. Come by it honestly. My father is a watercolourist, his brother is a commerical artist and my sister did the illo art for Stephen J. Gould's http://books.google.com/books?id=Sj...=Oqq_So2FE6XEzgSewfjIDw#v=onepage&q=&f=false" I had was a family affair with the four of us,

I've been a software/web designer/developer for 15 years. I've never really had the conviction to 'art'ify professionally - a combination of the pressure and the fear that it will become a chore. This is much to the extreme chagrin of just about everyone I know.

What I really want to do is http://www.davesbrain.ca/art/science_illos/index.html" (most of these are actually for PF).

My current project is a survey of my friend's 70'x20' backyard G-scale railway.
 
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  • #50
dailycap.com - 15 minutes and I get my news fill.
 
  • #51
DaveC426913 said:
Mine opens to http://www.davesbrain.ca/portal1.html" .

Rut-roh Dave, I just tried the link...your brain is down :frown:.
 
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  • #52
lisab said:
Rut-roh Dave, I just tried the link...your brain is down :frown:.
Maybe it can sense girlz. Try again and pretend you're a dude.
 
  • #53
DaveC426913 said:
Maybe it can sense girlz. Try again and pretend you're a dude.

Ah...OK, you must have disabled the girlz filter :smile:.
 

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