Comments on: After iGoogle is iGone

By: Cathy Nelson’s Professional Thoughts » Blog Archive » GRRRRRRR! what a sucker punch!

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 02:50:34 +0000

[...] wasn’t that long ago (back in July) that I was sharing about iGoogle going by the wayside, and offering alternatives too my readers then. I should have [...]

By: Danna

Danna — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 02:07:12 +0000

I was pretty much devastated when I saw this bit of news. I have my iGoogle page set up with everything I need at one glance (not in separate tabs) and I haven’t yet found way to get it all nice and pretty in Chrome. Thanks for providing some options, I guess I had better start exploring

By: Donna B

Donna B — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:24:45 +0000

Not startpages (I use :Speed Dial” in Firefox and “Symbaloo” in Chrome) but I like the Firefox extension “Morning Coffee” and Chrome’s “Daily Links.” For each, you set up the links you would like to open and specify the days of the week you want to see them. Then, in one click, they open in separate tabs.

By: Cathy Jo Nelson

Cathy Jo Nelson — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 00:25:04 +0000

I agree 100% but I guess Google created monsters with it. Can’t believe the reaction they are having at learning iGoogle is retiring! But again, I’m with you, tab browsing and extensions in Chrome make it my preferred methods of web browsing.

By: Jim Randolph

Jim Randolph — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 00:18:16 +0000

I’m okay with letting it go. You can set Chrome to open more than one tab at start up and with a few extensions it’s not much different.