I lost my default home page after 20 years (Free Republic) and it takes 3 or 4 clicks to pull it up every day. I am slowly moving my favorites from windows to firefox . Enough is enough, and my daughter has worked for MS for 20 years.
I would suggest everyone abandon Google, too. I’m now using DuckDuckGo for my search engine and I cannot see any difference, other than they don’t sell my searches to anyone, nor do they scan the results and remove any hits that don’t fit their political philosophy.
I use this as my start page... It allows me to set a bunch of links like the old MSN did. FreeRepublic is at the top of the list!
https://start.me/p/WonQ9a/startpage-us