What's Your Homepage?

Fluther.com, of Course!

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Used to be Apple. Now it’s Google ‘cause it loads nice and quick.

about:blank

Its http://www.apple.com/startpage because I have Safari and I like it because it loads the fastest.

www.something.com

I do this because it takes so little time to load that it makes an extremely quick way for me to see if my wifi connection is good to go.

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@People with about:blank

Why?

I have dozens of windows open and am constantly opening more. I don’t want to wait for a page to load EVERY SINGLE TIME before I can get to work or go where I want to go.

igoogle has all my mail, apps, etc

makeupalley

Blank – because I don’t want to deal with an unwanted page loading. I’ll decide where I want to go and when.

Whatever was open last time I closed it. Bad practice though, I have about 10 windows open permanently…

(I’m not sure why so few people make use of this feature in Firefox, but I suppose that’ll change with Firefox 3 as the option is there more prominent. Opera’s had it for a while too I believe)

I go back and forth between about:blank and Netvibes (which I choose over iGoogle because of its ability to monitor multiple Gmail accounts).

@Vincentt
Way, way back, probably before Firefox 1.0, I used an extension to facilitate that functionality. Then I just became annoyed with it, uninstalled the extension, and never turned it on when the feature was added to the app itself.

So that’s why I don’t use it: I just didn’t like it. I don’t know if that reasoning holds for anyone else though. There probably are a lot of people who simply don’t know about it.

@aidje – I used the SessionSaver extension for that I believe, before 2.0 arrived. It was pretty annoying because it didn’t really work that well – it works much better natively.

Then again, I can see why people don’t like not starting with a blank slate :)

@Vincentt
I think I’m going to try the whole session saving thing again. It’s been a while. Maybe I’ll like it now. No harm in trying, anyway.

Let me know whether you like it :)

Problem: it messed with my automatic deletion of cookies. In other words, it totally compromises my security. If I’m logged in to a site and have a page from that site open in a tab, then the cookie is not deleted when I close Firefox, even though I have Firefox set to only keep cookies for the current session (with the exception of a very small whitelist).

That’s reason enough for me to not make use of this feature.

Obviously, as it saves your session, so when you restart your session you’re still in “the current session” :)

Just wondering: what’s the big risk with keeping your cookies?

I’m just not a big fan of people having access to my email, financial information, profile settings, etc. Even friends whom I trust enough to let use my computer for a few minutes; they just don’t need to have access to that stuff. If they ask to check their email real quick, they don’t need to stumble on my accounts being wide open.