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Thread ID: 48134 2004-08-15 02:03:00 What is your homepage set to?? robsonde (120) Press F1
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261876 2004-08-15 02:03:00 What with MSN going to bits......

what do you have your homepage set to??

not just what but why??

do you just use about:blank?
robsonde (120)
261877 2004-08-15 02:05:00 Google.

Have had it that way for years,before that i used altavista.

As to why?

It loads fast,Its the best search engine,I find the image search handy,and i make extensive use of their News section.


But mainly becaue it loads fast and gives results.
metla (154)
261878 2004-08-15 02:06:00 about:blank

I've used it for years, it doesn't change to horrible slow-to-load pages, it's always very quick to load, and I can use it when I'm not connected :)

Mike.
Mike (15)
261879 2004-08-15 02:14:00 i don't use about:blank as spyware progs keep flaging it as a possible hijack.

with IE i just use windows update site. however as i use opera 99.9% of the time its set to pcworld.co.nz but opera is set to "start with no page" which makes things a whole lot easier exspecially when veiwing offline pages.
tweak'e (174)
261880 2004-08-15 02:17:00 I have set Opera to start with a couple of pages 'open' including Google, and PressF1.
Google because it's a great starting point; PressF1 because it's a great resource, and frequently a good laugh.
BachelorNo1 (3913)
261881 2004-08-15 02:19:00 www. stuff, for the press. Old Tom (5871)
261882 2004-08-15 04:37:00 Hi,

Mine used to be set to quicksilver, my server, and it had a google search thingy on it [handy] also news etc. but it was taking a bit long to load.

Now I'm on 7am.com which shows the news headlines for all over the world using many different news sources, mine comes up on NZ and I just switch to the world or whatever afterwards. Also has headlines re technical stuff so can follow up computer news. This site loads up fast as well. Now I'm using Firefox as browser it's got the google seach bar on it so don't need it on the home page. Doesn't have to wait for all the little boxes etc to open.

Marg.
pulling hair out (4493)
261883 2004-08-15 04:45:00 I've got EasyPHP so I use a custom HTML page for my homepage. All it has is a few links on it to useful sites. Megaman (344)
261884 2004-08-15 05:13:00 > what do you have your homepage set to??

I have mine set to NZ City

http://home.nzcity.co.nz/

> not just what but why??

hmm, it has got news, weather ,TVlisting ,Horoscopes & all most every thing else you want from a home page & some times it has special features depends on the time of year e.g. it has a section on the Olympic Games etc... & you can customize the page to the way you want it as well e.g. different colours etc...
stu120404 (268)
261885 2004-08-15 05:22:00 Press F 1 on Firefox
Xtra MSN on Internet Explorer
(But haven't used that since I got Firefox, so didn't know it had gone *to bits* till this thread. May need to investigate this phenomenon..)
Laura (43)
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