What internet portal do you use?

[troutsqueezer]

FireFox changed their default font/zoom level a little while ago. It's been a pain to keep it at the level I wanted so I switched to Chrome. What I don't like about Chrome is how easy it is for malware to infest it. Conduit search engine comes to mind. I think I have it licked but I shouldn't have had to take the steps I did to banish it.

The wife loves Yahoo. I got tired of having to enter my password every time I turn around and the movie theaters kept disappearing along with my Dow Jones picks.

 

[TheGoose]

I liked igoogle for the bookmark feature. You can still get to your bookmarks but I don't like the way they are displayed.

 

[kc5dlo]

I have been trying to find a simple page like igoogle for a while. Just found ighome.com last week and like it so far. The only reason I ever ended up on Google was that Yahoo kept changing the page layout all the time. With ighome I can set my page up with the same gadgets. It also allows you to select what search engine to use. I wonder if Google thought of that when decided to shut off Igoogle? I am trying the different search engines now.

 

[wngsprd]

Thanks for your suggestions. I already had a Yahoo page from years ago, so took a look at their new MyYahoo. Not as slick as iGoogle, but it did have an import feature to allow you to import all of your gadgets and settings from iGoogle. I tried it, and it worked, so I'll use this as my portal until I find something else. I'll be looking into your suggestion of ighome.com and also see what Bing's offering looks like.

 

[samhudson3]

I replaced iGoogle with igHome running on IE. igHome - iGoogle Alternative

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Interesting comments. I didn't know what an "internet portal" was. I'm still not real clear on it.

I use Chrome for web browsing.
Thuderbird for email
Skype for chat
Gravity for Usenet
iTunes for music
AVG for anti-virus
Spyhunter for spyware

That pretty much covers internet stuff, except for downloading every A/V codec in sight. For instance, the County Surveyor's GIS database requires an add-in from Adobe to work that pretty much takes over the browser window. I have AVG Secure Search set up as the default search engine.

 

[bcp]

Lots of confusion between "portal" and "browser" on this thread.

Here is a pretty good definition of "portal" and some choices, if you want a portal. I never saw the point.

Web portal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bruce

 

[monachatburn]

its really sad for igoogle fans that now it is going to shutdown. I tried several alternatives too but i like STARTME.COM - Your own personal startpage | iGoogle Alternative and switched to it. Its really good start page also available in chrome extensions. Easy to use and completely ad free.