Apple today changed the default page for its Safari browser. Instead of being automatically redirected to a Netscape news page, with Apple news and ads, the new “startpage” is an Apple.com web page featuring Apple news, top ten iTunes songs, ads, and more. The URL livepage.apple.com in now being redirected to http://apple.com/startpage/
Interestingly, http://apple.netscape.com/apple.adp still works as usual.
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First post.
Actually, I don’t ever remember seeing this start page. I had always set it to http://www.apple.com.
Go figure.
Noticed the change this morning. Immediately changed my start-up page to Yahoo News.
First thing I do is always remove the start up page.
Of course the old page still functions. There are probably quite a few browser out there that are still linked to it. I feel sorry for good old Netscape. Victims of rape and pillage and they will probably be consigned to be a footnote in Web history.
(brought to you by the MDN Oracle’s magic word “second”. Is netscape still second to IE as it was for many years or has it lost that spot to firefox?)
Yup – two for Yahoo
Netscape is mostly owned by AOL now, right? And the guys who started Netscape are now working on Mozilla? Can’t be too bad for them if that’s the case…
This page looks beter than that netscaep one. But I still won’t use it.
I always open a new window with a blank page. Starts up much faster
I always liked the news on Netscape’s page. Stuff I normally wouldn’t read shows up there. Too bad, too sad. I guess I’ll redirect to news.google.com instead.
Google news. Just amazing.
i like it blank
I liked the Netscape page. F— Apple pagejacking me.
BTW
Mozilla AND iChat calls home – use little snitch for security- worth the money
the new page is little or no value add, buy ipod, buy g5, whatever. I agree with Zack, frequently nifty bits of news show up first on the apple.netscape.com site. I changed back