When a document is read-only (that is, it is opened in browse mode), you cannot make changes, and hypertext links and popup notes operate with a single mouse click.
In version 2.5 of Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word, a document is read-only if the quick loadSave_quick.tex file is read-only. In Scientific Notebook and future versions of all of our products, this read-only behavior has been extended to .tex files that have the read-only attribute set. This means that you don't have to create a quick load file to get the desired behavior. We made this change because small .tex files load quickly, so if you're creating a large collection of small documents, there is no need to create quick load files for each of them. If some of the documents are large, you can selectively create quick load files to reduce the amout of time Scientific Notebook takes to load the document.