At0mic
Nov 20 2005, 05:56 AM
what do you have your browser homepage set to?
Martijn
Nov 20 2005, 06:34 AM
MSFN of course
K e n
Nov 20 2005, 08:15 AM
Not just Google, I have all my machines set to
Google Suggest
Martijn
Nov 20 2005, 09:12 AM
This feature has been added to FireFox ages ago, Find While You Type or something...
Synapse
Nov 21 2005, 01:10 AM
google of course, when i double click my browser icon i want it up and running, so i can either search right then and there, or type in an address like msfn.org.
i've moved so many people from yahoo to google just because of the loading time diffrences.
Martijn
Nov 21 2005, 08:51 AM
Yeah, Google is really fast
FAT64
Nov 21 2005, 09:27 AM
Google.
Crash&Burn
Nov 21 2005, 09:59 AM
Homepage ? what is that?

I do google searches from opera's address bar.
And have no use to waste space on a "home" icon on a menu...I have 10-20 pages/tabs open, and Opera set to resume-from-last-session on startup.
breadandbubbles
Nov 21 2005, 10:18 AM
having "about:blank" sounds like the stupidest thing ive ever heard. id never even considered it.
can someone PEASE explain the sense in that?
Crash&Burn
Nov 21 2005, 10:28 AM
When you open your browser it doesn't "go anywhere" or attempt any outbound connections - it just displays a blank screen. For IE, thats where my homepage is set to, for the odd time I have to even open that browser.
Zxian
Nov 21 2005, 11:29 AM
QUOTE (breadandbubbles @ Nov 21 2005, 08:18 AM)

having "about:blank" sounds like the stupidest thing ive ever heard. id never even considered it.
can someone PEASE explain the sense in that?
Like Crash&Burn said, the browser doesn't do anything on startup. It means that it's waiting for me to tell it where I want to go (since I don't always go to the same place when I open Opera). As for Google searches, it's a matter of typing
g Some random stuff and Opera redirects me
here.
That being said, it's about:blank for me.
Aaron_
Nov 23 2005, 06:47 AM
about:blank for me too!
Firefox already has a google bar and MSFN is in bookmarks so I want my browser clean.
phoenix_nf
Nov 24 2005, 11:04 PM
Google. Fast, Light, and Useful.
HyperHacker
Nov 24 2005, 11:10 PM
localhost. Specifically, file:///F:/html/homepage.html. It uses Javascript to generate a page with various statistics and webcomics on it.

In IE I use about:blank, because I only ever use IE to view random HTML files on my HD to see how they look.
computerMan
Dec 3 2005, 08:07 AM
i have mine set to my google email homepage
Mocht4R
Dec 3 2005, 09:53 AM
Google.
sonu27
Dec 4 2005, 03:36 PM
Google wins.
Jeremy
Dec 7 2005, 11:36 PM
puretna.com LMFAO
Seriously, Google.
Yahoo
Dec 8 2005, 12:36 AM
Please add yahoo also ...
army20
Dec 8 2005, 12:59 AM
Google
JoeMSFN
Dec 8 2005, 01:13 AM
Well about:blank I have as the default in IE (I install all computers that way too, then adjust to customer preferences) cuz sometimes there's no net connection and it's just painful waiting for IE to timeout...
As far as the browser I actually use

Firefox, I've kept it @ it's default. If nothing else, to boost the statistics of how much FF is run.... (of course mostly with Cookies set to session only).
Lightbringer-
Dec 8 2005, 02:01 AM
Google
horsecharles
Dec 8 2005, 02:28 AM
4 home pages on FF w/ the foxPose extension(each takes up 1/4 of screen simultaneously)... one of them is the customized Google page with one of its tabs being MSFN.
LLXX
Dec 9 2005, 05:19 AM
about:blank. I don't like it automatically grabbing from some site whenever I start it, especially because I never visit sites in a particular order every time.
nVnews.net - A tech info site, had it for years but may replace it with MSFN or some other tech news site.
In FF also Yahoo!-Mail.
DigeratiPrime
Dec 9 2005, 11:58 AM
Phyridean
Dec 9 2005, 12:20 PM
about:blank for me on my laptop. A lot of the time I'm on a 1.4 kbps connection through my cell phone, so even google wastes time. For anything hooked to an ethernet line, though, gets google
SiMoNsAyS
Dec 9 2005, 12:40 PM
about:mozilla
wolf7448
Dec 27 2005, 06:30 PM
for me its just boreing old msn, i got deepfreeze on my computer so i'm to lazy to thaw it and change it
bobthenob
Jan 1 2006, 03:14 PM
I made my own all open in new window
ringfinger
Jan 30 2006, 05:18 PM
Google Suggest
Chozo4
Feb 1 2006, 08:46 PM
I'm pretty much with hyperhacker here. Also have mine set to the localhost (actually 'http://127.0.0.1/forums/') to keep up on if anyone has contacted me on my forums.
Lazy8
Feb 2 2006, 03:20 PM
For my laptops, since I never know in advance whether or not I begin browsing online, I set it to about:blank. Favorites menu makes it easy enough to navigate from there. My personal desktop is set to:
http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en.
LeGaS
Feb 2 2006, 03:25 PM
about:blank, for sure.
Rocky619
Feb 2 2006, 03:57 PM
I have my homepage for IE set to
http://www.jcxp.netIt's set there because I'm a News Poster for them
Maleko
Feb 3 2006, 04:28 AM
blank, quicker to load and i got google toolbar if i need to search
net_user
Apr 15 2006, 08:22 AM
TeamOverload
Apr 15 2006, 08:24 AM
My browser homepage is Gmail just to get easy access to my mail
Fulvian
Apr 15 2006, 06:44 PM
QUOTE (Maleko @ Feb 3 2006, 05:28 PM)

blank, quicker to load and i got google toolbar if i need to search

Same here

it's pointless to set default homepage to a search engine when You already got one on the toolbar
Thunderbolt 2864
Apr 16 2006, 08:18 PM
Set it to my ISP members page.
alsiladka
Apr 18 2006, 11:29 PM
Blank goes my page
n7Epsilon
Apr 19 2006, 12:21 AM
I've got it on MSFN ...
EchoNoise
Apr 19 2006, 12:22 AM
My Intranet
Vlt
Apr 20 2006, 07:07 AM
I have overclockers Australia for my home page in Firefox and my ISP's in IE since i can't get my ISP's email service to work in Firefox.
computerMan
Apr 25 2006, 06:30 PM
nitroshift
May 4 2006, 10:42 AM
homepage set to google, msfn in bookmarks (the only 1 actually)
LadyLonnie
Jun 12 2006, 06:10 PM
Noggin
Jun 18 2006, 05:08 AM
My homepage is automatically set to
MSN.co.uk.
I don't know why, it just is
awergh
Jun 18 2006, 05:14 AM
google
Shindo_Hikaru
Jul 23 2006, 12:42 AM
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