Usually those sites are related to the browser such as browser extensions page or support resources. Directory Tiles will display "sponsored content." This is clearly different from the browsers that I use.
* Apple homepage
* iCloud homepage
* Facebook (third party, commercial)
* Twitter (third party, commercial)
* Wikipedia (third party, non-profit)
* Yahoo (third party, commercial)
So half of what a reset Safari gives me are pages of obvious commercial interest and probably bought by those companies.
I'm somewhat OK with it, considering it is a free product. What sucks is that they don't respect my synced Opera Link settings when on a new OM installation. Have to remove items on the speed dial screen manually at that time. The home screen ones are not removable at all, from what I can see.
why people here insists on comparing FF, which we all contributed code, donated money, helped users on forums, etc, to commercially developed offerings?
It will be pre populated with selected sites, just like your new iPhone have yahoo, espn, etc.