I would use it, but just for having a random home page. I always get a bit frustrated that I'm limited to one home page. I like a bit of variety when I'm starting up my web browsers. ;)

Here's one way to do the page at x time with javascript:

<script type="text/javascript">

var mysites=new Array()
mysites[0]="http://www.weather.com/"
mysites[1]="http://news.google.com/"
mysites[2]="http://www.reddit.com/"

var d = new Date()
var time = d.getHours()
if (time<10)
{
window.location=mysites[0];
}
else if (time>10 && time<16)
{
window.location=mysites[1];
}
else
{
window.location=mysites[2];
}

</script>

And here's a randomized version:

<script type="text/javascript">

var mysites=new Array()
mysites[0]="http://www.weather.com/"
mysites[1]="http://news.google.com/"
mysites[2]="http://www.reddit.com/"

var r = Math.ceil(Math.random() * mysites.length) - 1;

window.location=mysites[r];

</script>

Just cut and paste into an html file and edit with a text editor.

GOD is love.

You the man.

I think the idea was to provide it as a service so that folks could configure their pages. GOD's example would work for individuals, but if you wanted to do this for a wider audience, it would require some PHP-foo. I'll play with it today and see what I can come up with.

IIRC there is a firefox plugin to do this also.

What is the name of the plugin you are referring to? I have searched the MozDev site and can find no plugin of that sort.

Michael

This is something that I posted to another thread on this board somewhere:

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If you've got Greasemonkey installed there is a pretty cool script that will block specific sites until after a certain time of day (and weekends).

See this on Lifehacker: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/greasemonkey/invisibility-cloak-update-149252.php
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As I say this allows you to block sites at specific times during the day, but not set a different start page or whatever.

That's what I'm talking about GOD! :)

There is an extension to Firefox called stumble which takes you to a random website (based on some categories you choose) and then you give a thumbs up/down on it. Not for the start page, but pretty cool none the less (actually good for wasting time, so maybe not so good!)

If you're using Firefox, you can set the browser to open multiple home pages in separate tabs. Just set your homepage URL to the sites you want and separate each with a pipe "|", i.e. http://www.yahoo.com">http://www.google.com[/url] | [url]http://www.yahoo.com
It's not randomizable, but I use it to keep open a tab of Backpack so that it's always available.