Isn't that an option, harpo?  I changed it from the one to the other recently because it wasn't handling loading 20 tabs at once very well.

lordy.... and it's painful....  

why can't they see these things are steps backwards...   

Pro Tip: close all tabs, go outside

It's cold outside....   

jyther, thanks.

webgizmos, just the tabs for pms, my posts in sins, my posts in elemental, my replies in both, modding in both, my stardock store my dropbox, my file factory page, and a few other interesting sections in both elemental & sins.

fuzzy, that is where the dropbears are and you do NOT want to be dropped on by a dropbear. it is bad enough being slept upon by the CYATS, at least THEY do not start 15 to 30 metres ABOVE you and land on you in less than 1/10 of a second.

rossco_p, you are so right, that is where the DROPbears are.

sydneysiders, thanks for the link, but I am a fair distance from sydney, and the outside temp is approx 4 degrees C with rain in a coastal area(normal winter minimums are about 10 degrees c), and it looks like it might get colder (and the worst part is that the reverse cycle aircon stops working at 4 degrees C.

taltaamir,  use chrome for a different set of browsing for different types of information

harpo

I use speed dial of FF. I'm satisfied with the nine but I have two groups of nine. FF allows you to make more than one group.

IE9 ....mostly 2 tabs....one WC and the other 'Admin' .... a third might be an aircraft-sim site.... now and then a 4th...google.

That's it....

I'm a visual person and I can't see very well. The Speed Dial type of system gives me pictures of the pages themselves, or I can use just an image of a detail (like the WC lizard) then I know what it is. The regular bookmarks with words only or pea-sized images take a bit to read and if my hand shakes the whole thing rolls back up and I have to start looking all over again (yes, they are sorted into folders) I have a bunch of seldom used links there though. Research links for my writing, links for Geocaching that I don't look at enough, graphics design and hints, photography, and so on. It isn't that I don't use bookmarks. With the visual system I click a page, say "Publishing", then look for the right image - or I have memorized "upper left", check the name, and I'm on my way. Shaking mouse day, no problem, even my smallest image is an inch and I can target it. Fast, not nearly as frustrating. I can tell you that these forums are on the aqua page, upper right square. Zoom, there already. (several copies of WC and other customizing sites are there too)

I'm trying to figure out when I opened my Firefox is if the advertisement I got automatically was FF or my ISP.

Speed Dial isn't for everyone that is for sure. And the one version is the only that is multi-page and configurable. The rest are about the same, mostly one page. I get disgusted pretty quick with those.

Google sends the links THROUGH their web site. Anything you click on goes through some iteration of Google first. I'm told that it is part of their analytics. The same that some places have sued them to stop or put a switch on. As for searching, the things I search for are vague enough that I might not want the place I was last time, I want the ones I found before that or I want some new ones that I haven't seen. Bookmarking keeps them where I can find them so I don't have to dig through Google's interpretation of what I want to find things.

As for the click thing, using CTRL-Click opens the link to a new tab sans going through Google - loads remarkably faster.

yeah, try it with shaky hands. dumb thing always scrolls up (thus the argument for any other program) I wonder how a handicapped person can use some of this software.

Your comment about Pentium 4 makes me giggle. My desktop is a P4 and my 2002 server is P90 (with something like a screaming 126 memory) The desktop was best of it's class when I got it, I have a matching laptop in a drawer. It served me well. Currently the P4 serves as a surveillance cam server, which suits it well. I recently installed QtWeb browser. It's about as plain as can be (can be run portable) And to think, I used to play WoW and EQII on the poor thing.