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Have you tried changing your default start page? ;-)

I tried changing my default web browser. Worked.

So what's your default web browser and how does it greet you?

Not OP, but Safari. It greets me with a blank page, which is just how I like it.

Huh? Since when is the default start page of Safari not apple.com? Or did you change it manually?

I don't know what it was like before, but when I got my first MacBook Pro maybe 2 years ago, the default start page for Safari was blank.

Edit: Out of curiosity, I checked to see my defaults and the Homepage is still apple.com. However, the "opens with" settings are set to Favorites (top of the list, probably the default) which explains why it opens with a blank page. So the change was probably whenever they added the Favorites page feature; most likely to compete with Chrome/Firefox/Opera/etc.

I get some tiles with the most popular websites. So actually the same as the new tab page in Firefox.

A drastic solution!

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