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Old Oct 20, 2012, 03:33 PM   #1
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Are you loyal to your home page?

I have been a very loyal fan of MSN for my home page now for over 8 years now, Today has just put the lid on the jar for me though. I found that for the last 4 weeks or more MSN has been advertizing for Obama, Using the First Lady today! I am no longer going to use MSN for my Email or my Home page. This just has me disgusted! It seems that MSN is a left wing media out let and really I do not want my Home page to be political at all. Yes give me news but be far be balanced do NOT push me to view your political views, Am I right? How do you feel about your HOME page and would you change it and your Email if this is what you see?
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Old Oct 20, 2012, 03:41 PM   #2
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I have an image file on my HDD as my homepage.
So would I always see 'dat thing whenever I open my firefox.
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Yep, been loyal to my home page now for quite some time............TechPowerUp!
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Old Oct 20, 2012, 03:49 PM   #4
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I have considered this as well.
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I wrote a custom home page with links to everywhere I go, grouped by function.
It's just text links. I've been using it for many years.
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Google is my homepage. And no. Loyality (is that a word????) on the internet is silly.
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MSN, Yahoo and so on, if non personalized, must be the most horrible garbage and gossip homepage ever seen... and I would never have related "loyalti" to homepages (or doritos, etc) Just my 5c

I use to switch a lot, mainly have a newspaper.
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My home page has always been about:blank and if it isn't about:blank I get annoyed so yes, extremely loyal. I know exactly where I want to go on the internet when I open the browser and every second it wastes loading a page I don't want to see is a second I'm unhappy.
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My home page has always been about:blank and if it isn't about:blank I get annoyed so yes, extremely loyal. I know exactly where I want to go on the internet when I open the browser and every second it wastes loading a page I don't want to see is a second I'm unhappy.
aboutblank is the name of a dj I like LOL

and I just have my blog as my home page!
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My home page has always been about:blank and if it isn't about:blank I get annoyed so yes, extremely loyal. I know exactly where I want to go on the internet when I open the browser and every second it wastes loading a page I don't want to see is a second I'm unhappy.
My homepage is raw HTML with hyperlinks and no other garbage. It loads instantly and it takes me about one second to click the link where I want to go.
A lot faster than typing in a URL or using favorites or whatever.
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I'm a Google person and I love the effect of it as my home page.. Best dictionary I know
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I got tired of page loads, so about:blank it is (and has been for years).

(edit: For a while it was Mozilla's/Google's Firefox Start Page (in Firefox), but I long ago got sick of a chunky MSN type page loading up.)

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My girlfriend probably has used it for that long too... I all ways tell her she's cheating.. since she uses Chrome as her browser..
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Been using TPU as my home page for many years now.
Nothing better than opening it up and see all the news.
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My homepage is raw HTML with hyperlinks and no other garbage. It loads instantly and it takes me about one second to click the link where I want to go.
A lot faster than typing in a URL or using favorites or whatever.
That is actually an awesome idea!! Hell, I may have to do that myself. Would make it a lot easier to navigate to where I wish to go.
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I need a homepage that loads fast. Really fast.
When my boss walks into my office I may need to bail off TPU or a Jeep site NOW !!!
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My homepage is raw HTML with hyperlinks and no other garbage. It loads instantly and it takes me about one second to click the link where I want to go.
A lot faster than typing in a URL or using favorites or whatever.
I can imagine lots of people wanting to do this but not possessing the skills or knowledge. Could it be a viable project for you to make an app. that sets it up for a nooby user? That's easily customisable by said user for their own links etc? Or is it way too easy to even need an app for?
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