Here is a kewl browser called iRider. iRider is an advanced multi-page web browser without the use of tabs. It will allow you to browse much faster and work with lots of pages and sites at once, and lets you do it much more easily and naturally than with any other browser. Okay, that is the opening paragraph from the iRider site ... but you will have to take a look at it to believe it.
iRider has a unique approach to popups. Since iRider will connect and load pages while you are working on another page in the background, then popups are handled in the same way ... they are loaded in the background also. A quick glance at the sidebar will see a thumbnail of the popup -- and you can choose to ignore it or read it, just like an ad in the newpaper. Blocking some popups may prevent important features of some web sites from working, such as login windows for shops and banks. Even if blocked, some site may employ sneakier methods to show those popups. iRider lets it do its thing without an annoying window popping up in front of your face.
Other features allow you to pin pages to keep them from getting buried, SurfAhead will download pages in the background, mass link download by highlighting your links then right-click and go, surf several search engines at once, the Next Page button will automatically advance you to only pages that are ready for viewing (skipping over unfinished downloads), add several pages to your favorites at once, create favorite "books" which will allow you to open all your favorites in the book all at once with one click, and exchange sets of pages with others.
Andi at AndiLinks is giving this a whirl right now. She is pretty impressed with it so far. She mentioned another key feature that should be mentioned ... it is built with the Internet Explorer engine, but they have claimed to have plugged some major security flaws with IE -- namely the flaw that may allow an attacker to record passwords or other sensitive information, even on a secure website. See this Technical Note for more information and for steps to take to enhance security.
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