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Postby SirClive on Thu Nov 09, 2006 8:43 pm

What is your browser home page?

Mine is rather dull...

http://www.google.co.uk/
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Postby Dark Reaper on Thu Nov 09, 2006 8:59 pm

Mine is

http://www2.aol.co.uk/

Strangely, I don't actually have AOL. I just use it for my email.
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Postby Sabreman on Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:26 pm

My Yahoo mail. Seems the most practical choice.
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Postby Dudley on Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:38 pm

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The average game player is 33 years old.
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Postby necronom on Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:58 pm

Google, but it only appears if I press the house icon. My browser opens with whichever pages were open when I closed it.
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Postby SirClive on Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:07 pm

necronom wrote:Google, but it only appears if I press the house icon. My browser opens with whichever pages were open when I closed it.


How so?
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Postby SirClive on Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:22 pm

So basically, we all have really dull home pages.

Mine used to be Sharereactor for ages, then google news and now plain old boring google.
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Postby Sabreman on Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:44 pm

The email account is really the crucial hub for me. Apart from emails (obviously) it gives me my mailing lists, newsgroups posts and new posts to subscribed forum threads, ebay watching stuff and all that jazz. It's my portal to the wonderful world of the internet.
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Postby necronom on Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:47 pm

SirClive wrote:
necronom wrote:Google, but it only appears if I press the house icon. My browser opens with whichever pages were open when I closed it.


How so?


Because I use Opera. I currently have several tabs open. If I close Opera and re-open it, all my pages re-appear exactly as they were :D

I think Opera is the best browser in the world. It's fast, has mouse gestures, does my email (proper email - I'm not talking about webmail here), has a content blocker, pop-up blocker, password manager, is skinable, the layout is very customisable, has a download manager, you can scale any page to whatever size you want, and loads of extras all out of the box (no plug-ins needed like you need with Firefox), but you can add a few extras if you want to (I have something that lets me increase the size of any picture on a page independently).

Plus I think it's the most standards compliant browser there is.
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Postby Utini on Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:05 pm

necronom wrote:
SirClive wrote:
necronom wrote:Google, but it only appears if I press the house icon. My browser opens with whichever pages were open when I closed it.


How so?


Because I use Opera. I currently have several tabs open. If I close Opera and re-open it, all my pages re-appear exactly as they were :D

I think Opera is the best browser in the world. It's fast, has mouse gestures, does my email (proper email - I'm not talking about webmail here), has a content blocker, pop-up blocker, password manager, is skinable, the layout is very customisable, has a download manager, you can scale any page to whatever size you want), and loads of extras all out of the box (no plug-ins needed like you need with Firefox), but you can add a few extras if you want to (I have something that lets me increase the size of any picture on a page independently).

Plus I think it's the most standards compliant browser there is.


Yeah I like Opera too - it's a quality piece of code monkey output. I also like IE7 now that it's out... it borrows heavily from most of the popular browsers, and has the added bonus of upgrading the integrated XP/IE integration features from the IE6 components previously used.
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Postby Elgin_McQueen on Fri Nov 10, 2006 12:02 am

Um, http://www.tiscali.co.uk/broadband/ so carrying on the boring theme.

Think i'm gonna change it now to http://www.imdb.com
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Postby GetDexter on Fri Nov 10, 2006 1:28 am

Dudley wrote:about:blank


Dudley, I get this even if no-one else did. Was a pain when it happened to me a year ago. Had to get rid of it manually...
As requested by the Tw@t himself - his account was Hijacked and has had a change of password.

Sorry Dexter!
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Postby Elgin_McQueen on Fri Nov 10, 2006 1:38 am

I've had it.
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Postby Dudley on Fri Nov 10, 2006 8:27 am

GetDexter wrote:
Dudley wrote:about:blank


Dudley, I get this even if no-one else did. Was a pain when it happened to me a year ago. Had to get rid of it manually...


Er... Wuh?

about:blank is the standard command for a blank page in every browser I've ever used. I don't want to wait for a page to load when I open my browser. I'm not going to the same page every time.
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