What windows/apps/“helpers” do you have open when you browse the Dope?
(when you’re signed in)
I have:
the Dope “Message Boards” front page
right click to “open in new window” for each forum I want open. Then (using Firefox) right click to open new tabs for the threads I’m interested in within those windows.
Notepad to write (and correct) my posts.
Google - ummm, to Google stuff
Dictionary.com to spell check and look words/synonyms up.
Character Map - for those weird symbols and stuff - Œ, ©, ß, etc.
“my documents -“VegemiteMoose”” to save stuff to
Howzabout youse?
I have a saved window scheme in Opera that opens all the fora I typically browse. I open threads in a new tab and close them when I’m finished. Followed links open new tabs and I recycle them for any research I want to do.
Not that interesting, I guess – but I love having all the forums open up when I start Opera with the SDMB scheme. Ooooh!
I find this page useful at times (mainly when showing people how to do code tags in ATMB) and I start up MS word on the rare occasion that I don’t know how to spell something… and www.dictionary.com on the all too frequent occasion that word’s dictionary doesn’t have the word in question…
but most of the time I need not the aid of… aids.
I just have WordPad, the Straight Dope and usually another browser window (for whatever else I’m looking at, at the same time) open. If I need something like the character map, or Word, or dictionary.com open, I just open it separately. It’s not like I post enough to need those regularly anyways. Posts always get written in WordPad.
I usually just open one thread at a time, but, if there’s a bunch that I want to read all grouped together, I middle-click them (for tabs) and then go through them like that. It’s the same for pretty much every website I visit really.