So I got thinking, all I really need is a set of bookmarks, not necessarily a list of pages from my history. I wanted something I could easily add to and could be accessible from the three computers I use regularly.

There are plenty of articles and resources out there about Start Pages, CNet has blogged about them, Feedmyapp covers it rather well, Lifehacker recently put out the call and Mashable had their say. Lets not forget Symbaloo, they covered it quite well with their app and so to did Fav4.org.

I wanted something simple, I did not need anything Google search related as this is taken care of in the browser toolbar. My solution, to use Delicious! I visited the pages I wanted quick access to and bookmarked them under a new tag called “my-start-page”. Then went to my Delicious bookmarks, looked up the tag and saved the page as my homepage on each browser and computer. Simple! Now when ever I find or remember a page I want quick access to I just save to Delicious with my start page tag.

This changed again today when browsing my RSS feeds for the week I randomly came across an update to the Flock browser (powered by Mozilla Firefox). Now I had used this many years ago and at the time did not think much of it. Well a lot has changed over at planet Flock and the browser is now well advanced and contains many included addons and social networking abilities. Its load times seem to exceed Safari and its rendering of websites is very similar to Safari. It has now replaced both Safari and Firefox on my PC!