I agree with Mike. About:Blank is an excellent starting point. If you want to start without loading a page, allowing you the time to choose what you want from favorites or whatever you wanted to type, about:blank is perfect. When you click home that is about:blank. Setting it as the default page is an excellent choice. Your browser is basically idle.
It is written into the browser and has been for nearly twenty years. It looks odd but the term comes from the early days when more formal terms and structuring were prevalent and DOS ruled as well. Most browsers as we know them came from or owe their existance to a program called MOSAIC, which you should do a search on.
It might be heavy but it will probably fascinate you. Consider creating a minimalist web page with your most common links on it and saving it on your hard drive.
This about:blank web page reminds me of the Opera web browser which has a home page of links. I started that after being issued my first laptop, long before wireless was everywhere. When I had an actual webpage as my home page, e. Google, and was not connected the browser would hang for a long time, and I am impatient.
I have my Internet Explorer load to a blank page on purpose. To get rid of it, just choose a home page. In my case,I think about blank is one of Microsoft home page. This you did not explain in your article. It loads almost instantly. Within a week my browser was being misdirected to some Spanish-language gaming site and I got a malware alert. I ran a full scan, got rid of it, then told the IT son about it.
Joy, You might want to get that IT son to take a look at your computer for malware. Those with no actual working knowledge of a concept often contribute to the solution of very vexing problems to those who have studied it hard.
Or, to put it in a different way, grace is not learned, it is found. After i removed the virus all was then ok again. I used to have MSN as my home page. The page was all very interesting, and offered quite a few things to read — thus I was waylaid from what I had intended to do. Very good! No distractions!! No need to open the Google home page each time. I had no problem getting rid of about: blank. I do not know if HiJack This is still around but I do have the program and will send it to anyone who needs it.
Hi Sandy, I need this program. I just got a job working from home and I have this about:blank problem. Have NO money to buy anything, no vehicle to go to a job away from home.
All other links and buttons are ads. Just read your article on about: blank, and how you got rid of it. Also, is it involved somehow in junk e mails? It has nothing to do with spam.
As Leo explains it is just your browser loading nothing. Not quite true that about:blank is benign and not something to be removed. It is a huge annoyance and prohibits me from doing quite ordinary things.
Today for example, I wanted to place a small order with Amazon. Went well right up to proceeding to checkout. The about:blank window popped up; I clicked it off I thought and again tried to proceed to Amazon checkout; tried many times; could not find the answer. And surely there MUST be a straight answer. Now elderly and losing my patience quicker; refuse to read tomes of nonsense just to get to what should be a simply solution. Most of the time, it appears when you launch your browser. It is not a malicious program and it does not damage your system.
You should be concerned only if you see it frequently, or if you use your browser infrequently. If you have a slow internet connection, or are worried about malware, you can get protection for your browser. A common way to detect the cause of about:blank is by checking your security settings. Some security features and security packages block malicious content, so they display about:blank instead. Now you might be wondering — why would I want this blank page to appear on purpose?
Seems pretty useless. This way, whenever you open your browser or a new tab, it'll load super quickly without wasting a single resource or millisecond. In Chrome, open the menu those three little vertical dots in the upper right corner of the browser and scroll down to the "On Startup" section likely at the bottom :.
Then select "Open a specific page or set of pages" the third option and type in "about:blank" to the text field that appears. You might also want to make sure that, when you open up your browser, no tabs or anything from your previous browsing session were preserved. This is helpful from a privacy perspective, and also allows you to start a browsing session without internet, which uses less bandwidth. About:blank isn't really something you "get rid of" or avoid.
But if you're seeing it every time you open your browser, it could be that it's set to display about:blank upon launch. If you don't want that to happen, simply go in and change your homepage to whatever you want it to be following the same steps as above.
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