Re: LUG: What is your browser homepage? - Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:02:04 -0500

Subject : Re: LUG: What is your browser homepage?

From : Richard Carter <rwcarter@ncsu.[redacted]>

Date : Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:02:04 -0500

Actually (sorry to spam), I'm having second thoughts now; maybe I
should move the crap from my bookmark bar into delicious and use the
bookmark bar for launching common pages instead. But then what would
my homepage be?? :-\

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Richard Carter <rwcarter@ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:
> That's a lot like the kind of page I'm thinking of making, except
> those links are too tiny for me :). You should look into the NewTabURL
> extension I mentioned so that the menu comes up every time you open a
> new tab. Also I'm thinking I'll probably store the HTML file somewhere
> in my computer (probably in my dropbox) so that it comes up instantly.
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:28 AM, ï¿½<jpgoel@ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:
>> This is my homepage:
>>
>> http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jpgoel/
>>
>> It is clean and functional. Since I basically visit the same pages, I only
>> have to update this once a semester and have quick access to my class
>> sites.
>>
>> There are other sites that I frequent, but if I put them on my homepage
>> then I'd waste a lot more time checking them for updates. When I worked at
>> IBM, I created another version of this same page - only it had links to
>> things like documentation and other work-related stuff instead.
>>
>> Jay
>>
>> On Fri, February 26, 2010 1:58 am, Richard Carter wrote:
>>> Just thought I'd throw out a quick poll:
>>> What is your browser homepage set to? Why?
>>>
>>> I currently set all my computers to just http://www.google.com/ but
>>> I'm starting to look around again. I have found that iGoogle and
>>> Netvibes don't really work for me, they're too heavyweight and I end
>>> up going to the full versions of any of the gadgets on the page so
>>> they don't actually save me time in the end. So I think I just need
>>> something simple, and I'm thinking of making a simple HTML page that
>>> looks a bit like Google Chrome's new tab feature. I can even use the
>>> NewTabURL extension
>>> (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2221) to set that page
>>> to also open when I Ctrl+T. Now it's just a matter of making the
>>> page...
>>>
>>>
>>> Ricket
>>>
>>
>>
>

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