I recently started using my own home page in Firefox as a start-point

for all the important links that I should visit from time to time.

It’s been a good boost for productivity since it keeps the main

thing the main thing:

This was just a simple ‘idealet’ inspired by Opera’s Speed

Dial feature.

The advantages to using this are:

1. Quick access to things you need to access like your websitemanagement page or your bank website, instead of hunting around inthe bookmarks menu.
2. Avoids the need for a bookmarks toolbar. I feel a toolbar takes toomuch screen real-estate compared to its usefulness.
3. When you’re bored, you open your homepage and visit some of thevast websites where you can learn stuff, like the ones under the‘Grey Matter’ section.
4. It jogs your memory to visit some of the websites that you shouldvisit from time to time, like any forums that you want to beupdated on (instead of letting them flood your inbox).
5. Having a simple local HTML page as the homepage is much faster thanan online start-page.
6. Backing up/restoring/editing a HTML file is simpler thana bookmarks database.

The only thing missing is that when I open a new tab, it should

automatically open with the home page instead of a blank page. This can

be done using the Tabbrowser Preferences add-on.

Update: Or you can simply use the many Speed Dial addons to Firefox out there…