1. A FReeper told me about (let slip?) a year ago that I could change "my preferences" so that I could view Free Republic pages with either 20 posts, 100 posts, or 250 posts at a time.
It took awhile to get used to viewing 100 posts per page, and I'd probably never have bumped it up to my current setting of 250 if I wasn't performing thread tasks. If you haven't tried those settings and are curious, try clicking on FRee Republic's "My Account" tab and then, as shown in the image below, choose "My Preferences."
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Find on Page command
1. So let's say I want to find a specific post in a thread of around 1000 posts but I can't remember where it is. With my current setting of 250 posts per page, that means I need to search 4 pages.
I use a "find on page" command in my browser ( hold down the control key and tap the letter F key) to bring up a little box that I can type in a word or words to search the entire page. In my versions Explorer, Opera, and Mozilla, the search box is displayed in the upper left. upper left, and lower left respectively.
So I can type the word Kek in the search box and it will tell me if the word appears in the entire range of 250 posts on that page, how many times it appears, and then lets me click an arrow to skip through them one at a time. If I am searching many threads, I copy and paste the search term(s) into the "find on page" box for each page so I don't have to keep retyping it. (yeah, I'm lazy like that)
I realize that we all use different browsers, operating systems and versions of same but if you decide you want to use that tool, you can search the Internet to find the command that will work for you.