Detect front page in Drupal 6 with javascript
Generally Drupal adds a "front" class to the body element of whatever page is acting as the front page. If your theme's page.tpl.php is printing the body classes (i.e &lt;body class="&lt;?php echo $classes; ?&gt;"), which it most likely is (it should), then your javascript can check if the body element has the "front" class.

So, assuming jQuery (because Drupal includes it) then you'd do:

if ($('body').hasClass('front')) { // do stuff...}