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what do you have your browser homepage set to?

Poll: what do you have your browser homepage set to? (154 member(s) have cast votes)

what do you have your browser homepage set to?

Google (64 votes [42.67%])
Percentage of vote: 42.67%
Other Search Engine (3 votes [2.00%])
Percentage of vote: 2.00%
MSFN (10 votes [6.67%])
Percentage of vote: 6.67%
localhost (5 votes [3.33%])
Percentage of vote: 3.33%
about:blank (42 votes [28.00%])
Percentage of vote: 28.00%
Other (26 votes [17.33%])
Percentage of vote: 17.33%

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#11 Zxian

Scroll up - see the Google bar?

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Posted 21 November 2005 - 11:29 AM

breadandbubbles, on Nov 21 2005, 08:18 AM, said:

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.

#12 Aaron_

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Posted 23 November 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.

#13 phoenix_nf

MSFN Addict!!!!

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Posted 24 November 2005 - 11:04 PM

Google. Fast, Light, and Useful.

#14 HyperHacker

Just plain nuts

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Posted 24 November 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.

This post has been edited by HyperHacker: 24 November 2005 - 11:10 PM

#15 Nerwin

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Posted 03 December 2005 - 08:07 AM

i have mine set to my google email homepage

#16 Mocht4R

I r teh PWNTSER!

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Posted 03 December 2005 - 09:53 AM

Google.

#17 sonu27

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Posted 04 December 2005 - 03:36 PM

Google wins. :lol:

#18 Jeremy

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Posted 07 December 2005 - 11:36 PM

puretna.com LMFAO
Seriously, Google.

#19 Yahoo

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Posted 08 December 2005 - 12:36 AM

Please add yahoo also ...

#20 army20

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Posted 08 December 2005 - 12:59 AM

Google

#21 JoeMSFN

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Posted 08 December 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).

#22 Lightbringer-

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Posted 08 December 2005 - 02:01 AM

Google

#23 horsecharles

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Posted 08 December 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.

#24 LLXX

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Posted 09 December 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.

#25 DL.

Tweaker or whatever I happen to be focused on at the moment..

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Posted 09 December 2005 - 05:55 AM

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.

#26 DigeratiPrime

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Posted 09 December 2005 - 11:58 AM

http://www.google.com/ig?hl=en

#27 Phyridean

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Posted 09 December 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 :thumbup