start pages
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Make Wikipedia Your Peaceful, Scholarly Home Page
If you like just a little distraction when you start up your browser, if you find Twitter and news sites too in-your-face, but a blank page too mundane, try Wikipedia. Yeah that’s right, we just linked to Wikipedia, like it’s some obscure site we found. Because if you only end up there through Google results,…
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Launchbot Is A Customisable Start Page For All Your Browsers
If you tend to launch the same set of browser tabs all the time when you first sit down at your computer, it’s nice to be able to do that in one click. Launchbot is a start page that lets you create your own “sets” that offer one-click launching of as many sites as you’d…
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Fruumo Is A Fast, Feature-Packed New Tab Page For Chrome
Chrome: You have all sorts of ways to customise your new tab page in Chrome. But if you’re looking for something with a lot of customisation options and a fast load time, Fruumo is worth a look.
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MySites For Chrome Transforms The New Tab Page Into A Metro-Inspired Speed Dialler
Chrome: If Chrome’s built-in new tab page looks a little plain to you, or if you like the look of Microsoft’s Metro UI, MySites is a Chrome extension that changes the new tab page into a start page decorated with a search bar and tiles that take you straight to your favourite sites.