Ask HN: What are the most popular browser homepages?

1 point·sam_in_nyc··6 comments

I'm trying to see what the internet population at large uses as their browser's homepage. Google, iGoogle, NetVibes, PageFlakes, My Yahoo, MSN? I can't find any statistics on this. I'd very much appreciate it if anyone could find some data on this.

If you want to chime in with what you use, even though you're most likely an exception, I'm all ears! It might make good discussion. Mine is classic Google.

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I use about:blank because I do not always wish to go to the same page each time I launch my browser, and I don't want to experience a slow start-up as my browser loads a pre-defined home page.

Out of curiosity, if you find this data, what do you want to use it for?

I use MyYahoo, and have for what seems like forever. I have never understood the appeal of the blank Google page as I like to see the latest news feeds (NY Times, BBC, and such). I tried iGoogle, but still prefer the MyYahoo layout. I also have my normal daily sites (Techmeme, Hacker News, local news) setup in the Firefox bookmark toolbar.

On my work PC I've actually got Firefox setup with 4 tabs (work-related sites) that load when I start it, though MyYahoo is set as the homepage there as well.

http://news.ycombinator.com/newest

Its always new.

I just use the front page, but using the new page probably makes more sense. I'll undoubtably end up at the front page anyway.

http://start.fedoraproject.org/ , though thats cause I just havn't changed it.

I have netvibes as my homepage

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