How to Surf the Internet Faster

You can use this program to surf the Internet faster. You can launch the built-in browser without creating tasks and browse with it like you do with a conventional browser. To launch the built-in browser, click on the Launch Browser button on the Project Toolbar.

With a conventional browser, when you want to visit several links on a page (which happens very frequently), you have to click on the first link, wait until the page is loaded, view the page (often you wait for a page just to find that this is not what you expected to see), click on the Back button (and sometimes wait again while the browser downloads the previous page because it thinks that the page might have changed between your clicks), then click on the second link, and so on. When you find an interesting page, you stop on the page and your Internet connection becomes idle (when it could download other links you wanted to visit from the previous page).

With Internet Researcher, when you want to visit several links on a webpage, you can drag-and-drop them to the Drop Box, to the Tasks Window, or to a Folder, by which you tell the program that you want to view them later. The program will download the links in the background while you continue to surf or view the current page.

For instance, you can type in a search phrase in a search engine (e.g. Altavista) and get many results. You can then drag and drop selected links (or a text selection containing several links) to the Tasks Window. The links will be downloaded in the background and will be available even if you disconnect from the Internet. Thus you can download hundreds or even thousands of pages for viewing them later.

When a page contains many links and you want to visit them all, you can select the text containing all those links and drag and drop the selected text to any of the drop targets mentioned above.

You can also right-click on a link or on a text selection containing several links and choose Enqueue from the context menu. This will have the same effect as if you clicked on the links except you stay on the current page and the links are downloaded in the background.

Clicking on links or choosing Enqueue from the context menu differs from dropping links to the Drop Box, to the Tasks Window, or to a Folder. Clicking on links or enqueuing them does not create new tasks. Instead the links are appended to the same task you currently browse. If you want the links to be listed in the list of tasks you have to explicitly drop them to the Tasks window, to the Drop Box, or to a folder. If the Tasks tab is not active, you can drop directly on the tab or wait a second until the Tasks tab becomes active.

If you do not want to retrieve banners you can set Project Filters to filter out advertisements. This will also allow you to surf faster.

The program saves all pages it downloads from the Internet in the project database as tasks. You should explicitly delete the tasks you do not want to keep. You can also clear the entire project which will delete all files in the project.