| MSN, Yahoo, other portal site | 42.2% |
| Google, other search engine page | 26.5% |
| Work web page | 18.9% |
| Microsoft, other OS maker’s home apge | 2.2% |
| News site home page | 1.6% |
| Provider’s web page | 1.6% |
| Related company, organisation home page | 1.1% |
| Hotmail, Gmail, other web mail page | 1.1% |
| PC maker’s home page | 0.5% |
| Shopping site home page | 0.5% |
| Newspaper home page | 0.5% |
| Customer web page | 0.0% |
| Opera, Firefox, other browser home page | 0.0% |
| Other | 3.2% |
I wonder if this is an indicator of how many Japanese browser users use Firefox or other alternative browsers like Opera versus default IE or something based on the poll of their homepage content or not? i.e.> by looking at amount who claim to use opensourced browser homepages as their startpage for the number of users or lack thereof rather who commented as having firefox or opera portal or startpage as their browser home page or were some or many of those Google user actually firefox users who landed on Google page as homepage by default of use of Firefox perhaps?
All my browsers starts with a blank page, then I will usually go to your page or rofl.to to start my day.
I'm proud to say I have Gunota Headlines as my home page ^^
I've MSN as my home page. I guess I belong to the majority =P
I have google as mine because its super quick to load. I still get the freezing thing with your site (guess i should upgrade to FF) and facebook, although i visit it a lot, can be very slow sometimes. Quickness FTW...
Mine blank...
mines google but only because i downloaded the google version of internet explorr... yes i know there are better browsers out there but sheesh i dont have time to sit there and customize them... also umm im too lazy to change my home page
Mine's Yahoo since my main e-mail account is there. That account's been a constant for me the past near 10 years. So, yeah, I kinda feel naked without it being my home page.
I've had your site as my homepage for ages now, nothing better than waking up and reading your latest articles to tide me through the day :D
about:blank But I end up visiting lots of blogs as first thing in the morning.
I have FireFox open three tabs: 1) iGoogle homepage full of Google widgets 2) Google RSS Reader 3) IGN.com - for my game stuff.
Ever since I found the feature, my browser automatically loads what was on it last so whatever tabs I had opened (which I massed closed before) just pop back up when I go on it again =P If I didn't have this, I would probably have mu iGoogle page up...
i still choose between the two: msn and yahoo portal page.
what does blank/ or ntohing fall under? lol
I use Firefox with TabMix Plus so I usually have more than one page that open by default (from the last session) but to my standard belongs Google Reader and Wikipedia.
gainax.co.jp. Used to be big-big-truck.com for many years.
lolifox with Google as my default home page.
As of now I use Lolifox with the default search homepage. Thanks for mentioning it, Shin, it owns. ^_^
I have the US firefox google search engine. I choose it as my homepage because it doesn't load anything like news or the latest fashion tips for my pets as I don't need that when I first start up my browser.
got yahoo and google for homepage... but google FTW!!! lol
Mine's Figure.fm
about::blank for me. But the pages I acess firt are usually Google or Gmail. Gmail because I open Google Reader from there, thus checking what's up on DannyChoo.com ;)
about:blank. Loads faster that way and in case I need to do something fast.
Blank
i use both Firefox and Lolifox and my default page is a blank page ^^
i use Firefox only and my homepage is dannychoo.com(no, really)
Homepage: Google news. But I quickly go to your page usually. World and local news are depressing (but you still have to know what happens out there, right?), I prefer to see and read something that can cheer me up.
about:blank
Well that's the nice thing about Firefox and tabbed browsing. I have three home pages that load up, igoogle, my isp web email, and a web comic index.
Mine's yahoo Danny: looking at the pic for this post I was wondering if you're gonna make a Mirai eroge....
Mine is Opera's "Speed dial" with nine pages - mail, several blogs and forums and dannychoo.com ^^
about:blank too.
Google BR.
either iGoogle page or my anime website.. and sometimes your site too Danny, depends on when I'm using Firefox or IE.
I was also wondering about Mirai-Chan... I would like to see her more on the site, like her being the interface for the search engine, and maybe one day being able to interact with her (a flash option would be nice!). Dream on D_Blade, dream on... :)
I don't know why, but when I read "oni-chan", I first thought of 鬼ちゃん (demon) before お兄ちゃん (brother) lol
Have not one but several home pages. I have FF set to open a folder as a home page so... Here are the current pages (it does change often) -My and my fiancee's personal blog -My personal blog from the Internet Development Class I'm currently taking. -Gmail (looking forward to Mail in Leopard) -Google -Dannychoo.com
This is mine http://www.google.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official Yup...the default homepage when you 1st install firefox.
http://start.lolifox.com Who wouldn't want a search engine that can search anime bit torrent sites as their home page? I wrote about it on my blog mere moments ago. ^_^
i uses both internet explorer and firefox. for IE, my default homepage is google.com for firefox, it's www.blizzard.com the gaming company behind games like the diablo series, starcraft and warcraft series. i'm a big fan of blizzard games. have been using their website as my default homepage for years.
Both my IE and FireFox are set to "blank", then I just click the corresponding tabs... DannyChoo.com being the first tab I always click on ;D The reason I have it blank is because... well, the browser loads faster hehe.
I use MSN because they usually post things about cars on there.. and links to Msnbc.com. I think my laptop has aol.com as the default. I will have to change that crap.
D_Blade.. interact with her? Hmm... sounds like eroge the way that you said that. I agree though, it was nice seeing her in the picture above.
iGoogle- with Gmail widget, Google Reader rss feeds, weather- it takes longer to load but I like looking at the cute pictures and what blogs have been updated. Wish you could customise more though.
i have opera in both of my machines so i've disabled the homepage. but otherwize it would be google :)
exactly the same as oliphant. I have iGoogle with Gmail widget, tones of rss feeds, and other more or less useful widgets like weather, calendar, world sunlight map (funny stuff), currency converter (completely useful haha).
i used about blank :)
Tokyotosho is the best homepage for foringers!
Blackle.com a subcategory of Google.
DRAGUN, eroge system indeed, though you would exclude the courtship and ero parts (that would never happen anyway). I meant simple chit-chat, nothing else.
I keep amazon as my homepage, since they always recommend new stuff to me when I start browsing. =) (Of course this can be a problem for my wallet ;P)
I've got Blackle.com Saves energy ^_^
blank here too
Windows Live is my homepage, because from there it only requires one click to get in my mailbox. ^^
Google.com/firefox that will do better =)
I leave mine blank, i HATE waiting for a page that i'm probably not to going to use.
hmm..I'm using lolifox at home and at work. ^^; home page wise: Google. And I do believe some people put torrent sites or eroge sites as their home page. Where's the option? ^^;
my default for my home pc is yahoo, while college pc is google...
I use google :D
I've set mine on Hongfire (I tend to visit the forums on Hongfire and here pretty much everyday) for Firefox and Google on Opera, both is dependent on where I am actually. Opera when I'm in school and Firefox when I'm home.
