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I am just looking for a homepage that gives news and weather; without entertainment, sports, gossip, horoscope, etc, etc.
I used MyYahoo for 5 years before they ruined it.
Then MyGoogle for a few months before they discontinued it.
Then MyMSN for a year before they canceled it.
I looked through half a dozen possibilities and they are all terrible.
Anything like MyMSN out there?
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CNN? Their mobile site at least will display weather after you enter your zip, and it remembers it.
[OP]
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I tried it. It is mostly stuff I have no interest in, and there doesn't seem to be anyway to customize it.
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I replaced MyGoogle with igHome. Not quite the same, but I've learned to work with it. I looked at several & igHome seemed to be the best replacement.
Tony
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+1 on IgHome. I had to replace MyGoogle when it went away. IgHome is not perfect but it does allow you to customize and select what you want to a large extent.
Jim
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Thanks. It is way better than anything I have found.
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MyMSN got canceled? When did that happen? I visit that site every day. It still works for me.Originally Posted by Wade Lippman
Larry J Browning
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It terminates on 9/30. The replacement is crap.
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wow! I think the customized news sites must be really losing popularity MyGoogle and now MyMSN. I agree, the so called replacement sites are just crap!
Larry J Browning
There are 10 kinds of people in this world; Those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I just don't see the point of a homepage. I just bookmark pages in my browser and use the bookmarks toolbar. Then everything you really want is always there - no need to go back to a homepage.
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For me, I prefer to have one page I can quickly read the headlines I am interested in, along with seeing my stocks, my favorite sports teams, what movies and showtimes are playing at my local theaters. Etc... It doesn't necessarily need to be set as my home page, but I want a site I can go to, and not have to do a lot of clicking to see all the things I have an interest in. Much quicker and convenient than a whole bunch of bookmarks.
But apparently more and more people prefer to do a lot more clicking than I.
Last edited by Larry Browning; 09-09-2014 at 3:31 PM.
Larry J Browning
There are 10 kinds of people in this world; Those who understand binary and those who don't.
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+1. My homepage is a search bar. For everything else, it's a simple shortcut at the top of Firefox. When I save those shortcuts, I delete everything in properties so all I see is the "favicon". If the site provides no favicon, I'll make a note beside the shortcut.
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Feedly on Google Chrome is great. I can organize all the news I want (+ WWing blogs, etc.) all on one page.
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This is an interesting thread. For as long as I can remember, my browser home page is a blank page. I never liked waiting for the inevitable slow-loading home page, and 99.9% of the time, I'm going to go to a bookmarked location, anyway, so...blank page.
I'm thinking I'll check out some of the suggestions here to see if it's worth changing my practices, now that broadband speeds are fast enough for quick-loading pages.
That's twice today I've discovered I do something simply because of inertia.
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