Morning Coffee: why do we assume we only get one homepage?

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Morning Coffee: why do we assume we only get one homepage?

by Danny Mendez Jan 28th 2008

Why do we assume we only get one homepage? For those willing to explore the potential of their browser, we'd like to show you a little out-of-the-box thinking in the form of Morning Coffee.

Though Firefox can set a series of tabs as your "homepage" (select "Use Current Pages" from the preferences menu), this free add-on (shout out to all the free software coders out there) gives you the ability to choose when to open which homepage.

Say, for example, you like to read the NYTimes on days when you work, but you prefer Google Reader on Saturdays and your church's weekly bulletin on Sunday mornings. This program, as you may have already assumed, does just that.

[via gHacks]

Tags: firefox, home page, HomePage, morning coffee, MorningCoffee, mozilla, site, url

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

windycitypoe said 10:35PM on 1-28-2008

I liked the extension, but eventually dumped it simply because it was an extremely tedious process to work with entering URLs. If it worked off existing bookmark folders, it'd be perfect.

David said 11:48PM on 1-28-2008

Dude...that's what Bloglines is for...:-P

James said 1:01PM on 1-29-2008

Umm... I have a folder on my Bookmarks Toolbar called "Daily". I drag stuff I want to read over morning coffee into it. When I log on in the morning, I middle-click it. Solved.

If I wanted to read different stuff on the weekend, I'd probably make a "weekend" folder. Solved again.

The point of having an entire extension for this is... what, exactly?

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