At 08:38 PM 12/8/2005 +0000, you wrote: >Russell, > >On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 03:09:32 +1300, Russell McMahon wrote: > > >...< > > I'm all for shatrp saws, BUT I've also found that changing saws in mid > > stream can be a very unwise thing to do. > >Nearly as bad as changing horses in mid metaphor... :-) Just don't look them in the mouth in midstream. > > Quite apart from any learning > > curves, things have a habit of breaking in the midst of crisis, no > > matter how well behaved people swear they have been for them. But it > > does seem past time to try Firefox. > >Indeed! The tabbed browsing thing is excellent, and I wouldn't be without >it. There's only a couple of new >things you need to know to use it ( to create a new, empty tab; > / "Open Link in new >Tab" to follow a link in a new tab. Once you get use to using it, you >won't want to go back to all those >windows! For 'power users', most of the shortcut keys are the same by default. The only thing I had to change was that I had gotten used to typing to type in ("open") a URL. does exactly the same thing on IE. On Firefox, by default, opens a file and opens a URL. So, I switched to which works as expected on either browser (and on Mozilla, for that matter). BTW, memory consumption of tabbed windows seems to be quite a bit less per URL than that of individual windows. You can pick whether you want URLs that you click on to open in a new tab or in a new window. The right-click/new tab thing is *great* for sites that force you to open perhaps a dozen links to get all the information. Just right-click/new tab each to open and let them all load while you stay on the main page. I fully expect Microsoft to copy the tabbed browsing at some point, but they have not yet. >Best regards, Spehro Pefhany --"it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward" speff@interlog.com Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com ->> Inexpensive test equipment & parts http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZspeff -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist