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Re: "Go file thingy"... Forwards and back
Posted By: Darien, on host 207.10.37.2
Date: Thursday, September 23, 1999, at 08:23:28
In Reply To: Re: "Go file thingy"... Forwards and back posted by Wolfspirit on Thursday, September 23, 1999, at 06:33:07:

> > > Depending on which browser you use, that might be because there isn't one.
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> > > The "Go" menu is only in Netscape Navigator, and even some of the later versions of that don't have it.
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> > 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.
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> 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.
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> 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...

The trouble with this being that, under Windows, it has a tendency to crash *every instance* of the program running rather than just the one. So if you hit a bad script and it crashes that browser windows, the rest of them go with it.

One of these days I should get off my arse, head down to the computer centre, and get the server settings so I can configure my Linux system to dial in. 'Course, I'm awful lazy...

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