I always have an instance of IE open at the Google advanced search. That is my home page. CTRL+N opens as many instances as I want in the blink of an eye. The tabs are just on the bottom of my screen with IE.
Right now I have 8 pages open, 1 Google and 7 CNCzones. I open all of the "search for new posts" pages because they change so often and the search fails if I start reading first. I'm sure others must do the same no matter which browser they use.