While text downloads quickly, images can really slow things down. There are two ways to speed things up. Like the ad blocking scenario above, you can view websites in text-only mode by turning off the auto-loading of images function under the Options menu. It is in the same place as the blocking advertising is on the two browsers.
The next way to speed things up is to let the text appear and then simply click the "Stop" button. That will stop the page from loading anything beyond where you stopped it. You can always add the image by right-clicking your mouse and then selecting the "View Image" button.
On Internet Explorer, one time-saving trick is the partial address trick. Usually an address requires you to type out phonebashing.com. Because IE will fill in the rest of the site, all you need to type is "phonebashing" and hit "Ctrl+Enter" and IE will bring you to whatever the domain you chose by automatically adding the .com part. Be careful not to try this if you do not intend to go to a . com address.
Multi-tasking means to do several things at once. Some internet users like to look at several things at the same time. One thing you can do on any browser is use multiple browsers at the same time. There will be times when you want to look at more than one page at a time. It is also a great way to compare how Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Netscape's Navigator work.
You can also use multiple windows on the same browser at the same time. Using IE, you pull down the File menu, select "New" and then "Window." Using Netscape, pull down the File menu, select "New" then "Navigator Window." You can also press "Ctrl+N" in both programs and it will do the same thing. Remember to close the browsers when you are finished - "Alt+F4" will do that.
This is really a Windows tip. Every web browser has a "Find" feature. Once you have accessed a web page, click on the "Edit" button and use the "Find On This Page" feature to quickly locate the particular term you are looking for. It will save you time from scrolling through and reading the entire document. For example, if you have done a search on a particular word, say "frog," and you get back a page that does not seem to be about frogs, using the find feature will show you where that word appears on the page. This is also a great way to find threads or names of posters on cluttered message boards.
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