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To: general_re
It was too dang inconvenient to monitor more than one forum before, for me and for most others ...

Oh. That's not a bother for me. I use Mozilla, which has the "tabbed browsing" feature. From the "help" file:

Tabbed Browsing lets you open more than one web page in a single window. Each web page has its own tab across the top of a single Navigator window. Each tab appears on the Tab Bar. For example, you can visit mozilla.org, icq.com, and cnn.com within one window instead of three windows.
Every thread I'm watching gets its own tab, regardless of what forum it's in. (When you right-click on a thread, you have the choice of opening it as a new window, or as a net tab; I choose the 2nd option.) At the end of the day, I can save those tab settings, kinda like a single bookmark, and then re-open all those tabs -- with one click -- the next morning. Saves a lot of effort.
21 posted on 12/19/2003 11:51:16 AM PST by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
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To: PatrickHenry
Mere artistic differences. I use Moz as well, but my preferred usage is to have the forum "new posts" in a browser window, and then open each article in a new tab as I come across it. That way, I can keep the forum itself separate from the articles, and I can also kill all the tabs in rapid succession while still leaving the forum window open. But in order to do that for multiple fora, I'd have to open a window for each forum, and open tabbed articles for that forum in that window - otherwise, I'll have forum tabs mixed in with article tabs, and I can't kill the article tabs bang-bang-bang, without possibly accidentally killing the forum tab also. This way, I have all new posts appearing in one tab, regardless of forum, and I can open all articles in new tabs, regardless of forum, so I can keep the single window and the organization style I prefer.

And if you have a three-button mouse, or a scrollwheel mouse where the wheel can function as a third button, you can set Moz to open links in a new tab just be clicking on the link with the middle button - saves time from right-clicking for the context menu. Even if you have a two-button mouse, you can get the same effect by holding down the CTRL key when left-clicking, if you check the appropriate box in Preferences -> Tabbed Browsing. Either way, it's much better than what the poor benighted souls stuck on IE get, IMO ;)

22 posted on 12/19/2003 12:10:42 PM PST by general_re ("You shouldn't treat people like objects. They aren't that valuable." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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