{"id":11,"date":"2005-04-09T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-09T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/?p=11"},"modified":"2019-03-18T20:35:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T00:35:59","slug":"homepage-versus-startpage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2005\/04\/homepage-versus-startpage\/","title":{"rendered":"Homepage versus Startpage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ilias.ca\/Firefox-32x32.png\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\nYou know that great feature in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/mozilla1.x\/\">Mozilla Application Suite<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/netscape\/\">Netscape7<\/a>, that lets you choose whether you want your browser to open with your homepage, a blank page, or the last page you visited? Well, this is one of those features that is still in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfirefox.com\">Mozilla Firefox<\/a>, but there&#8217;s no menu for it. Here&#8217;s how to set it:<br \/>\nOpen Firefox, type <strong>about:config<\/strong> in the location bar, and press &lt;Enter&gt;. Search for the preference <strong>browser.startup.page<\/strong>. Double-click on it (or right-click and select Modify), and set the value.<\/p>\n<p>The values:<br \/>\n0 = blank page<br \/>\n1 = home page<br \/>\n2 = last page visited<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I like my browser to open in a blank page, but that doesn&#8217;t mean my homepage has to be blank. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ilias.ca\/wink_n.gif\" alt=\"\" align=\"middle\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know that great feature in the Mozilla Application Suite and Netscape7, that lets you choose whether you want your browser to open with your homepage, a blank page, or the last page you visited? Well, this is one of&hellip;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2005\/04\/homepage-versus-startpage\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firefox","category-mozilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}