lol IE was 9
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Precaching is an old trick. Its a bit of a kludge workaround compared to *actual* speed.. - "I'll just load every possible page you *might* go to from this one in the background while you read this one, then no matter which way you go, I'll already have it for you, and I'll throw the rest of the unvisited data away".

A good idea on time-limited unlimited megs slow dial-up, not so hot on data-limited broadband plans, since its could be loading 20+ pages for every one that you actually read. If you push your monthly megabyte quota on occasion, I would expect this to waste a noticeable portion of your bandwidth, not to mention hammering the web-server with a heap of unwanted page-requests.
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like i said, i leave precaching off
the pipelineing etc however now that makes for some wootage, especially on american sites with assloads of small bits and peices (things like yahoo home page etc (that is if they arent running iis5 or something which dosent support pipelining))

basically pipelining sends a whole bunch of requests in one big chunk rather than getting each peice of a page individually. When you are on dialup or unwired and you are paying like half a second for each round trip then it can make a *big* difference, Problem is not all servers support pipeling, opera has it turned on by default with some heuristics to look at a servers first response and see if it probbly will support a pipe then it either does or dosent use one for all subsequent connections. Firefox dodged the whole issue (for compatibility presumabily) and though its built into the browser its turned off, you can either turn it on manually with about:config (punch that into your address bar for some giggles) or just get fasterfox (one *optional* (and disabled by default) facet of which is precaching). It also tweaks the inital paint delay (to 0 i believe) which makes the page render as soon as it gets information and then re-render it as it gets more. This can be good and bad, if your on broadband then the reflowing chews up cpu and could actually lead to slower load times, if your on dialup well it'll atleast show you somethings happening ;->. It does make it feel "zippier" though because of the click *bang* type of response.

oh yeah and theres addons for mouse gestures

and voice command if your keen ;-> (i think or did i get confused with opera there?)

Oh btw glen check
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1273&application=firefox
its a thingie that lets you pick proxies easily so you can choose between the tafe and mine for that "alternate" browsing, like when the forum gets classified as porn again.
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Fanboy time again..

Opera 9 just went out of Beta. The Beta's were pretty cool, but reading the changelogs, they've fixed and improved a heap of little things.

http://opera.com/#

http://my.opera.com/welcome%20to%209/blog/

Surfin' Style..
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I like it. The widgets seem to work better now. I've gone and downloaded a bunch of useful widgets that will save me going to websites ie: Currency Converter, Web Page Validator, Periodic Table, Dictionary and a URL Zipper.

[EDIT: Went you install Opera 9, you have to reinstall Flashplayer 8 to get YouTube to work ]
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