A Welcome to Your Browsing Day – Firefox

I spend lots of time in front of my computer and that time expands from beginning of my work day to the majority of my free and personal time between family responsibilities and tasks. I love breakfast but I rarely ever sit down, eat breakfast and read the paper. That’s so old school right? I do somewhat of the equivalent though with my browser at every startup.

I have a collection of web pages that open in tabs automatically when I start my browser each session. This gives me a variety of launch tasks to take advantage of as I start my work day and other periods after coming back to the computer.

• Gmail – gives me the opportunity to check my "business" email account for items of interest
• Yahoo! Mail – is the email account I use for mainly email from friends and family
• BrightKite – give me the opportunity to "check-in" wherever I’m working that day
• Startlike Outdoors – serves as a launch and portal page with a great picture of nature to start my day

Maybe you want to open your banking page, or your company’s intranet site, or your email, or anything else you can think of to open. Whatever you want to see first to get your day started.

You can do this with your own browser and select your own start pages in Mozilla Firefox. In Internet Explorer, go to Tools > Internet Options and the "General" tab. You just place each page you want to startup on a separate line.

Let your computer be your new morning paper. Nothing will replace that first cup of coffee though right?

Image: Composite of browser tabs and opened tabs shown together