Sunday, December 21, 2008

Power Surfing

This will be useful if you have large monitor and run at a high resolution... If you want to really power surf the web, open up more than one browser. Arrange them on the screen so that you can see at least part of each one at all times. Once this is done, you can now drag links from one browser to another. This saves you from having to use the back button constantly, especially if you are on a page like a search engine, where there are lots of links and you want to try a bunch of them. Also, if you encounter a web page with frames, and you want to break out of the frames, you can drag a link to a new browser. No more frames. (You can also right-click a link and choose "Open in New Browser".)
Here's an example of using two browsers... Let's say you are going to be use a search engine for the next hour or so. Start two browsers and tile them vertically. (Minimize all programs except the two browsers, and right click a blank spot on the taskbar, then choose 'tile vertically'). Now drag the edges of the browsers so that the browser on the left is about 3 inches wide. Drag the edges of the browser on the right so that it takes up the rest of the screen. Now, using the browser on the left, open your favorite search engine and do a search. When the list of hits are displayed, drag a link into the browser on the right. This lets you see all the hits from the search engine while you are surfing those sites... no more hitting the 'back' button all day long.

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