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Need for speed?

Friday, May 25th, 2012

We always need more time and want to do everything faster. To find something fast on the internet is just one way to save time.

Here are a few fast ways to make sure you get the most out of your browser’s functionality.

1. Use a fast browser

Fairly obvious isn’t it? In a previous article we looked at the various browsers and their performance. By now you know that all browsers are faster than others and Google Chrome is currently winning the race when it comes to speed.

2. Disable Flash

Flash websites are all over the web and extremely popular.  Although they look impressive, they also slow down your browsing experience considerably. Rather turn off Flash by default and reactivate it when you really want to see the Flash animations. Some browsers require an add-on to block Flash. For Chrome, you need the extension Flashblock. There’s also a Flashblock extension for Firefox. Internet Explorer has a built-in tool you can access by clicking Tools | Manage Add-ons.

3. Get rid of all those toolbars

More  toolbars, slower speed. As simple as that. And do you really need all those toolbars? Some toolbars  take up computer memory while others are eating away on your bandwidth and sending and receiving data in the background. (and you thought they were just sitting there doing nothing!)

4.  Use tabs, not windows

Too many tabs can cause problems, but they’re very handy when it comes to browsing efficiency. How do tabs speed up your experience? The first is all about organization. With multiple tabs in a single window, it becomes quite a bit faster to locate the page you need to work on. You don’t have to maximize a window, discover that it’s not the right one, minimize it, maximize a new window… until you find the correct one. A single window open with multiple tabs is far easier to search. This is not the only way tabs can help you. Browsers like Chrome treat each tab as an individual process (instead of a child process of a parent). So when a Web site causes a tab to crash, you can close that one tab and not lose all the other tabs. This behavior is not a standard at the moment, so you’ll need to switch over to the Chrome browser to take advantage of it.

SOURCE: http://www.techrepublic.com/


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Keeping tabs on your Inetkey

Friday, April 20th, 2012

Does it seem as if  websites and your Inetkey keep disappearing from your browser or you want to open more than one site at once?  If you haven’t heard of the handy browser functionality called tabs, you might be missing out.

Wikipedia defines tabbed browsing as follows:

“Tabbed browsing, also called a tabbed document interface (TDI), is a feature recently implemented in Web browsers to effectively contain multiple pages or documents in a single window. Each item occupies the browser’s entire viewing area when displayed. Tabs facilitate navigation among the items. The term “tab” arises from the visual similarity to the physical tabs on manila folders used to store and organize hard copy.

The most often-mentioned advantage of tabbed browsing is the fact that it eliminates the need to display tiled windows that demand frequent resizing and repositioning. Tabbed browsing consumes less memory and operating system resources than tiled-window browsing provided the user does not keep too many items open at once. Some tabbed browsing interfaces allow the storage of sessions for later resumption. ”

HOW TO AD TABS IN YOUR BROWSER

So how do I add a tab in my browser and keep my Inetkey open at the same time?

From versions 8 of Internet Explorer you can use “multiple tabs”.

You can open webpages in new tabs, and switch between them by clicking the tabs you want to view. By using tabbed browsing, you potentially reduce the number of items that are displayed on the taskbar.

To open a new blank tab, click the New Tab button on the tab row or press CTRL+T. To open a new tab from a link on a webpage, press CTRL as you click the link, or right-click the link and then click Open in New Tab. If you have a mouse with a wheel, you can click a link with the wheel to open it in a new tab.

A new tab (see below) willl appear and you will be able to use it to browse to an additional website.

To ensure that your internet access stays active, open your Inetkey in a seperate tab. Alternatively use another browser (not your default browser) exclusively for the use on Inetkey. 

FAQ’s on tabbed browing.

For more information on Inetkey, browse to www.sun.ac.za/newfw.
To access the internet with your Inetkey, go to https://inetkey.sun.ac.za
To check your internet usage, go to http://www.sun.ac.za/useradm and click on “View Internet Usage”.

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