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My start page has been set to The Ultimate Startpage for the past 6 years: Blank.

9rules of course!!

I use iGoogle. What more could you ask for?

At work, it's iGoogle.
At home, it's my Internet Provider's home page, cause I never remember my username and password for that...

P.S. I bookmarked 9rules. ;)

@hthth I hear ya, my MBP start page is set to about:blank and I styled it up using the Stylish extension.

But, at the desktop I like to get bombarded with a whole bunch of info all at once... iGoogle isn't bad, it's just kida boring.

igoogle

metcheck weather. How sad is that?

Plain ol' Google.com

It's fast, easy, and just what I'm looking for. ;)

When I open my browser at home I get three tabs.

Gmail
Google Reader
Toothpaste For Dinner

I heart iGoogle. I think I got on the train later than most, though. Second page is Google Reader.

Google at work (I don't like iGoogle actually) and 9rules at home. I should set it to both though.

blank for me too.

I have several default tabs:-

BBC News,
email (Google Apps)
calendar (Google Apps)
Google Reader
Flickr
last.fm
9rules
9rules2
publicenergy
Traineo
Pownce

Hahaha, right on Public Energy.

I have iGoogle as my home page as well, but i never actually open up to that. I use Tab Mix Plus extension for Firefox, and it comes with a session restore capability. So when i open up FF, i generally have my gmail, digg, and one or two forum tabs open from the previous days.

It's been about:blank for as long as I've had my own PC (even before that, when I was using a shared PC, it was only Google). And it probably always will be.

I don't really see the point of having Netvibes or iGoogle load up every time you start your browser, much less a whole multitude of web properties. Granted, those are the sites that you either check on regularly, or aggregate all your important info (eg, iGoogle), but I have tab groups for that. A middle click on the "Regular" tab group on my bookmark bar (Camino, by the way) opens up all my "morning reads". That approach avoids 8 websites (/1 information and bandwidth heavy site) loading every time I start my browser. Which is much more than once a day.

iGoogle in IE and Google Reader for my RSS feeds in Firefox.

I have 4 default tabs:

Bloglines
Flickr
BBC News
Flickrvision

I like to open up a bunch of tabs, Gmail, iGoogle, Harvest (cause I'm often working if I'm on the Internet), and Google Calendar.

I only see it when my browser completely crashes and I can't restore the session...which never happens, so I have no clue. Let me check...uh default Firefox it seems.

Google News Canada.

I don't watch TV, and I listen to a sports radio station.

Also, I can choose what kind of news I read, and skip the moronic news that TV news cover... if you know what I mean..

Google for me, quick and easy.

about:blank

The German Word of the Day page about about.german.com:

http://german.about.com/library/blworttag.htm

I'd just subscribe to the feed for this, but alas, none is offered.

like many others, about:blank

What's the appeal of about:blank? Beside the "performance" improvement..

Pretty much that, I thought... Why load a page if there is never a set place you start browsing from?

Guess it is effective in it's own way :)

plain google...simple, clean and effective

MY default tabs in Firefox:

My Blog
My Blog Admin Index
My local blog aggregation site
Hotmail
9rules

about:blank

But in the morning I mainly read many webcomics such as Get Fuzzy, Calvin & Hobbes, Dilbert... :)

TheAnimeBlog.com of course!

For me about:blank in Fire Fox and Speed Dial in Opera oh yeah the Default start page of Flock in the gr8 Social Web Browser I like Both the three !!

I recently started using 8apps and am using the Orchestrate app as my homepage.

I use Safari.

In my booksmark bar, I've got..
- Flickr
- Facebook
- Match.com (though I don't need that now)
- Ma.gnolia
- My News

But my homepage is set to Yahoo.

Google is the way to go.

OK. I'm going to sound like a fool here, but how does one set default tabs in FireFox? *blushes*

@ pelf

Do you mean to open tabs when you launch Firefox or do you mean so that you can just do casual browsing with multiple tabs and not multiple windows?

Igoogle, google reader and WordPress.

about:blank here too. Quickest loading web page ever!

Netvibes all the way

I use the flock myworld page, although I'm not sure why...
I think I'm gonna set it to restore tabs from the last section

@CarsonClay: I've seen some people mention it above (default tabs), but I think it means having multiple tabs open every time I launch a new FF window. Is this possible? Am I getting this correctly? :)