10 Netsurfing Tips

How to Save Time & Avoid Frustration
Tips to Make Your Websurfing LIfe Easier

1. Disable Auto-load Image

Advantages
You can save a lot of time, since you don't have to wait for images to download. Most images on a page aren't necessary. On a well-designed page, none of them are.
You avoid a certain amount of advertising, since most advertising is done with images.
Disadvantages
On a well-designed page, there are no disadvantages, since the page writer will ensure that it is usable without images.
On poorly-designed pages, you may need to download some of the images to understand the page.
In most cases, you don't need to download all the images, but just click the icons of the images that you think may be important. You can usually skip the first couple of images on a page, since they are often the page name and advertising.
If there are lots of image icons and you think you need to see them all then you can do one of two things.
Decide that you don't want to visit the page and click the back button.
If you feel the page may be worthwhile, click the "images" button, go make a cup of coffee, then come back and view the page.
If the font color makes reading impossible, it's because the writer assumed that you would download his background image.
You can hit the "images" button and download all images, which includes the background image.
You can set your user preferences to "use my own colors"
Some well-designed pages have images which you'll want to see, but since the images will be well labeled, it's easy to know which icons to click to view that image only.
2. Disable JavaScript
This can be done in the "preference" settings of your browser.
Probably over 90% of the use of JavaScript on the Net is unnecessary and time-wasting for the visitor.

Advantages
You can avoid Geocities.com, Tripod.com and similar advertising.
You avoid all those JavaScript error messages from pages with poorly-written code or code that only works on certain browsers.
You avoid those irritating scrolling messages, alert messages and so on.
If the page writer has used the "mouseover" code, you can still see the URL of links in the status bar rather than the "cute" messages.
Disadvantages
The only disadvantage is that a few pages which you visit may require JavaScript. In those cases you can do one of two things.
Decide that you don't want to visit the page and click the back button.
If you feel the page may be worthwhile, enable JavaScript and then hit the reload button. (There are some worthwhile uses of JavaScript.)
3. Learn How to Open Links in Another Window
On a Macintosh, click the link, hold down the button until a menu appears, then choose "new window with this link".
On a Windows Computer, right-click the link then choose "new window with this link".
Advantages
For pages with lots of links, you can open up a link in a new window, read it, then close that window. Since your "links" page is still on the screen, you don't need to wait for it to load back in.
Disadvantages