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Re: "Go file thingy"... Forwards and back
Posted By: Wolfspirit, on host 216.13.40.185
Date: Thursday, September 23, 1999, at 06:33:07
In Reply To: Re: the "Go file thingy" posted by Sam on Thursday, September 23, 1999, at 05:23:47:

> > Depending on which browser you use, that might be because there isn't one.
> >
> > The "Go" menu is only in Netscape Navigator, and even some of the later versions of that don't have it.
>
> Huh? It's in 4.5 and 4.6x -- how much later can you get than that? Anyway, it's there in IE too, but under a different menu name -- I forgot what it is, but it's very annoying, because it only goes back five or so pages.

Hey, if it's annoying to keep losing webpages cached in the back queue, why not just open another browser window whenever you link to another site? Windows and Linux are multi-threading for a reason, you know. :-) Curiously, I find I never surf with less than 3 browser windows open. The leftmost one is opened on the Main Page of a site. From there I follow links by opening new windows for them. I jump back and forth between the Main Page and the spawned links.

The greatest advantage of this is if you hit a site with bad script (or something) that somehow crashes your spawned browser window, you still have the Main Page intact, pointed at the site you were at before the crash. Works for me...

Well yeah, I knew Sam knew all this already :-) But why are people like Dave reporting Netscape as being so crashy?

Wolfspirit

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