A Resolution for Your Browser: New Year’s Home Page
9 Comments Published by Joel January 2nd, 2007 in Gadgets. Share ThisSince we can safely presume we’re a big bunch of internet dweebs, perhaps we should take some of the advice from this Metafilter thread and change our web browser’s startup page from its default settings. There are hundreds of domains out there designed to function as portals and start pages, but I’d like to suggest a couple of my own: “about:blank” will cause your browser to load a blank page, meaning you’ll get instant startup of each new window; “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Randompage” will cause every new browser window to open up on a random page from Wikipedia, adding a pleasant degree of distracting trivia into your daily browsing experience.
Of course, you could set your home page to be Dethroner, but even I don’t do that. (I’ve been doing the random Wikipedia page for about six months since I saw the tip on Lifehacker—a site we’re getting dangerously close to editorially with this week’s theme.)
9 Responses to “A Resolution for Your Browser: New Year’s Home Page”
- 1 Trackback on Jan 2nd, 2007 at 3:59 pm
With browsers like Firefox you don’t have to restrict yourself to just one home page. I have my browser open up with the BBC News but other tabs are loaded for my webmail, calendar, Bloglines, and a few other favourite web sites that I check every day.
I have the home page set to personalised google on all of my browsers. It is handy to have a load of useful rss feeds instantly visible without having to go through a reader to get at them. The problem with using a random wikipedia link is that it if it displays smegma or something equally jolly your day isn’t really off to a great start.
I set it to my task list. That keeps me focused on my tasks, and the list is available through any internet connection.
I prefer Tasks Pro, which I paid for and run off of my web server. A free alternative (that is hosted for free by Toby Segaran) is Tasktoy. Both are dandy.
http://taskspro.com/
http://tasktoy.com/
Google IG/personal here, too. At startup I see a rundown of favorite RSS feeds, news, my calendar, and email. More in depth news are a click away at Google Reader. Sigh…I’ve turned everything over to Google now….
Hrrmm…..Netvibes *does* look interesting….I might have to check it out. Is there a comparison between Netvibes and Google’s offerings anywhere?
I am a hardcore netvibes fan. I has been my homepage for many months now. Great to consolidate feeds, mails along with a huuuge list of addons possible from the netvibes ecosystem.
For Mozilla-related browsers, I use about:mozilla as my homepage. Functionally the same as about:blank, but visually cooler.
upon boot-up my opening page has automaticaly been firefox start page.
somehow it got lost,how do i get it back?
all box’s under options are correct.
thank’s
robert