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I use a website called netvibes.com
It's a fairly intuitive and handy homepage. It basically loads my gmail acct, facebook acct, digg, all my blog feeds, weather, and whatever else. It allows me to organize it very nicely on pages with tabs all done with Ajax (basically just drag and drop whatever wherever).
I'm curious though what others use?
Sidenote: For awhile I was an opera user and quite liked the speed dial startup page.
At work, I have Google News, the local newspaper and a few of our corporate Intranet pages open in tabs at startup. At home, I either use a blank page or the basic Firefox start page.
Netvibes looks pretty slick. I think if I want to source a bunch of different locations, I'd probably rather have separate tabs open. But I can see a use for centralized access to all that information. Thanks for the link.
My homepage is.... about:blank
Can anyone challenge me for speed of loading?
Mine is actually these forums.
Mine is google.com
:p
What's a homepage? You mean some of you use a browser that doesn't conveniently open the pages you had open when you last closed it down? Why?
The almighty google. Scourge of the internet. Terror of the seven ISPs.
Mine is about:blank because... just because I haven't bothered changing it to anything else, and I didn't want to see the Firefox page.
I last closed down Firefox on my laptop... hmm... a few days after 2.0.0.12 came out. And before that, I closed it down a few days after 2.0.0.11 came out. I can't remember if I've actually restarted to upgrade to 13 yet. See, I treat my XP box as though it were an OS/2 box. (Which is half right. The kernel was developed from the OS/2 kernel.) Unfortunately this means that I leak memory a bit, so the reboots have to come somewhat more frequently. But hey. Why reboot if you're still using the computer?Quote:
Originally posted by Grantref
What's a homepage? You mean some of you use a browser that doesn't conveniently open the pages you had open when you last closed it down? Why?
I'm actually tempted to write up a simple HTML bit. Use frames to have a list of links on the left side of the page that loads some of my bookmarks on the right side in another frame and set that as my home page.
Similar to what Elvion was discussing
You want something nice and simple? Go to www.kepl.com.au and look at the frameset page and the sideframe. It works that way.Quote:
Originally posted by Gromgor
I'm actually tempted to write up a simple HTML bit. Use frames to have a list of links on the left side of the page that loads some of my bookmarks on the right side in another frame and set that as my home page.
Similar to what Elvion was discussing
I also keep about:blank as my homepage. Mostly because there's nothing that I need to see every time I open a window. Most of the time, I'm going for something specific out on the internets, so about:blank loads instantly, and I can navigate away from there.
http://pooh/
Its our home networks server. There are a few links on there that we have special and are there for me.
Your home network being 100acre?Quote:
Originally posted by Shani
http://pooh/
Its our home networks server. There are a few links on there that we have special and are there for me.
Firefox Google, but the other half uses Opera and that speed dial window is seven shades of fricken awesome!
Yep. My main machine is Kanga, my laptop is Tigger, hubbys machine is Roo, our server is Pooh, our tv stuff is on Eeyore and piglet is my husbands laptop.Quote:
Originally posted by Rosuav
Your home network being 100acre?
At work it's the corporate webpage, at home, I have no idea. It's whatever the default is. Probably google on firefox and MSN on IE. On Konqueror it's google, i think.
My uncertainty stems from the fact that I never open my browser via its icon. If I want to access a site, I click start > run > type in the website and hit ok. sometimes it autocompletes to a place i've been before and i down-arrow and hit enter. but i never open the browser and then go to the website. my common destinations are:
www.gmail.com
www.google.com
http://www.thresholdrpg.com/forums/s...&action=getnew
http://reader.google.com
http://docs.google.com
(windows doesn't like start > run and then a website that doesn't begin with www so you have to put http:// in front of sites taht don't begin with www, it's fine under KDE, though)
I've been totally a sucker and just going to the forums and then clicking get new posts. I'm ashamed I wasn't already doing this :)Quote:
Rosuav would probably point out that the s=& is superfluous, and he'd be right. I often just make a link in my quicklaunch bar to that link, as well.
What's wrong with doing that???Quote:
Originally posted by Elvion
I've been totally a sucker and just going to the forums and then clicking get new posts. I'm ashamed I wasn't already doing this :)
I've shamed my fellow lazy PHP programmers worldwide. :)Quote:
Originally posted by Dalaena
What's wrong with doing that???
My home is my gmail page.
Mine is my school's Blackboard login page. I do this simply because if I didn't, I would have no idea what is going on with any of my classes or happening on campus. Out of sight out of mind. This way I'm literally having it thrown in front of my face any time I'm getting on my computer to do anything.