[fwlug] HP's answer to the eee

[Ben Dailey]

>>> On 4/11/2008 at 1:25 PM, in message
<6535daca0804111025q7f50fce4ga5c63da55f09e386 at mail.gmail.com>, "Simón
Ruiz"
<simon.a.ruiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:14 AM, MIS <miked at fortwayneplastics.com>
wrote:
>>  Interesting ... so do you **REALLY** need to see all of those pages
the
>>  moment you open FF?  Hmmmm ... ooops ... only one of thb is visible
at a
>>  time ... so I guess you can't, can you? <weg>
>>
>>  MikeD
> 
> True, I definitely don't need them all open the moment I open FF. In
> fact, in an everage browser session, I won't look at half of them.
> 
> Most of them are open to remind me to look them through and
"process"
> them in some way, whether that's just to read them and close them,
or
> add them to my History of Computing class notes, or mail the link on
> to people I think will be interested in them. Some of them (like the
> Ubuntu Indiana Team's Hardy Release Party page is a reminder that I
> have some responsibilities to take care of that, that sort of thing.
> 
> I usually go through phases of building up a backlog of tabs (where
> I'm at now), and going through them all and pruning my tabs back
down
> to just two = Gmail and Google Reader.
> 
> With FF, though, you either keep the tabs or you don't. You can't
just
> open FF with just one clean tab to do some quick browsing without
> losing all your tabs permanently that I know of (hopefully a feature
> of FF3).
> 
> My solution then, for this trip, is to install Epiphany, and use
that
> for quick browsing so I don't set off the bad guy detectors. ;-)
> 
> Simón
> 
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Simón,

Why not just copy in current profile to a new profile then tell firefox
to ask you which profile to use then keep a profile with only 2 tabs. If
you don't like being prompted each time create 2 different links to
launch firefox in the "correct" profile context.

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Thank You,
Ben Dailey
bdailey at bhmsd.k12.in.us
Asst. Technology Director
Bluffton-Harrison MSD
www.bhmsd.k12.in.us