What's Your Homepage? Find Out What Others Use

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The discussion revolves around users' preferences for their browser homepages and how they navigate the internet. Many participants express a preference for Google as their homepage due to its speed and efficiency in loading. Users share their experiences with different browsers, particularly Chrome and Firefox, noting features like thumbnail snapshots of frequently visited sites and the ability to restore closed tabs. Some users mention issues with Chrome, such as delays in page loading and problems with video playback, while others appreciate its stability compared to Internet Explorer and Firefox. There is also a mention of personal customization, with some users opting for blank pages or specific sites as their homepages. The conversation highlights the importance of quick access to information and the varying experiences with different browsers in achieving that goal.
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Just curious, to what website are you directed when you open up your favorite browser?
 
Physics news on Phys.org
a page I made that is a list of the most commonly visited sites for me.
 
google
 
I recently started using Chrome. It uses something similar to what Insanity said, a page that features snapshots of my most frequented sites.

Oddly, it doesn't list PhysicsForums or Google, which are certainly my #1 and #2, respectively. Wonder why that is...:confused:.
 
GOOGLE!

I use either firefox bookmarks or google to go to every website.
 
lisab said:
I recently started using Chrome. It uses something similar to what Insanity said, a page that features snapshots of my most frequented sites.

Oddly, it doesn't list PhysicsForums or Google, which are certainly my #1 and #2, respectively. Wonder why that is...:confused:.

How is chrome? I have always used Opera but have been considering changing.
 
It opens google, which I think is one of the websites that loads the fastest. Usually when I open the browser I instantly open a few tabs with my bookmarks.
Once I tried using another homepage, but I prefer the almost instant loading of google.
 
TheStatutoryApe said:
How is chrome? I have always used Opera but have been considering changing.

Like Sakha says, it makes google apps work lightning fast. But lots of things don't work (most video, such as youtube). So, I'd give it a mixed-to-negative review...but I use it when I use google apps.
 
Google on my desktop, Yahoo on my laptop, and a proprietary site at work.
 
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sympatico msn on desktop... google on laptop NOW. It was this website askmen.com which was freakin amazing :P
 
  • #11
Looks like the majority have google. I use google/yahoo, but recently have been playing around with Microsoft's bing. It runs fast, and it's nice and flashy.
 
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lisab said:
Like Sakha says, it makes google apps work lightning fast. But lots of things don't work (most video, such as youtube). So, I'd give it a mixed-to-negative review...but I use it when I use google apps.

I also see delays in the chrome response. It load the page different way so you see a blank page for like few micro-seconds to seconds which is bit annoying. During that time, you don't know if it has started loading the page or just doing nothing. I can run youtube videos in it, but lately (for few months now) I am having issues with youtube videos on windows xp maybe due to some memory leaks, my computer gets really really slow after I play youtube for few minutes.
 
  • #13
Google.com. It's the one page that consistently loads instantly. I can do a quick search or navigate to anywhere else I need in half a second through it. Almost as fast as it would take me to use my bookmarks.
 
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Just installed Chrome. No problems that I can tell so far with any video. Not being able to see my tabs is a bit annoying, I'm sure I can find a way to fix that though (I hope).

Edit: the 're-open closed tab' option is great.
 
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Firefox's Google.
 
  • #16
Google news. I used to have other sites, but they would get bogged down. A lot of people at work have the intranet main page as their homepages, but since I have a laptop, that doesn't work for me from home. Besides, I really only need to see the list of daily seminars and cafeteria menu once a day. At least the news gets updated throughout the day.
 
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I use opera and open to a blank page. The browser opens faster, then I have a list of quick launch buttons for my most visited sites.
 
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CINA said:
I use opera and open to a blank page. The browser opens faster, then I have a list of quick launch buttons for my most visited sites.

I used to do that too but I've noticed that google as your homepage opens just as fast :p
 
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Google.ca
 
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I recently started using Chrome. It uses something similar to what Insanity said, a page that features snapshots of my most frequented sites.

Oddly, it doesn't list PhysicsForums or Google, which are certainly my #1 and #2, respectively. Wonder why that is...

Maybe you have mistakenly removed them?

At the bottom of that starting page there is a link/button named "Remove a thumbnail", click on it, then click on "Restore all removed thumbnails". I hope this solves it.
 
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IE8: about:blank
Firefox: (nothing)
Chrome: The original homepage.

Actually no need to open Google as a homepage, IE8 has a search bar, so does Firefox; and in Chrome search works through navigation bar itself.
 
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wajed said:
IE8: about:blank
Firefox: (nothing)
Chrome: The original homepage.

Actually no need to open Google as a homepage, IE8 has a search bar, so does Firefox; and in Chrome search works through navigation bar itself.

I've always noticed that. When I open the internet on my laptop even though google is my homepage I never use it. I always find myself going to the search bar lol. Actually I use that search bar + the tabs function so much it's rediculous. Checking up things etc. I just never changed the firefox default webpage from google and I used google on IE because it was faster
 
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ya'll are really missing out on some brownie points right now :biggrin:
 
  • #25
yahoo.com
 
  • #26
Physorg
 
  • #27
Greg Bernhardt said:
ya'll are really missing out on some brownie points right now :biggrin:

lol... I have PF on 'Speed Dial' for Opera. ;-)
 
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Google!
You know changing the homepage to google s always the 1st thing I do when I work with other computers:biggrin:
 
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Lisa! said:
Google!
You know changing the homepage to google s always the 1st thing I do when I work with other computers:biggrin:

Not Yahoo!? ;-p
 
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TheStatutoryApe said:
Not Yahoo!? ;-p

Yahoo as homepage?
Oh I have to admit that I prefer yahoo email to gmail:cool:
 
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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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"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
 
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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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davec426913 said:
mine opens to http://www.davesbrain.ca/portal1.html" .

wow!
 
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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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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.
 
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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.
 
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Hubble ultra-deep field is my wallpaper.
 
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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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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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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:
 
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My wallpaper is the SDSS shot of M-51
 
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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"?
 
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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.
 
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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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dailycap.com - 15 minutes and I get my news fill.
 

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