iRider Web Browser
Tuesday, July 8, 2003 by DaWebMassa | Discussion: WinCustomize News
I've tried Opera, tried Mozilla, tried a few other browsers. Haven't managed to find something better than IE... until now. I am a regular reader of John C. Dvorak and know how critical he is about ANYTHING. After watching the video on iRider, I downloaded it. It is only free for 21days ($29 thereafter) but within 15 minutes I knew I would be buying this.
Browse ahead, thumbnail views, open/save/copy multiple pages/favorites/URLs at once, pin pages open and more. You have to see it to appreciate it.
Browse ahead, thumbnail views, open/save/copy multiple pages/favorites/URLs at once, pin pages open and more. You have to see it to appreciate it.
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brazil
Reply #22 Wednesday, July 9, 2003 2:29 AM
Reply #22 Wednesday, July 9, 2003 2:29 AM
There are so many tools specifically designed for the IE engine that are completely useless in Mozilla/Firebird/Opera.IESpell,Digital Persona,Windows update,Banking sites.Way to much hassle for me to find out what else is not supported by these browsers.
LightStar
Reply #23 Wednesday, July 9, 2003 9:27 AM
Reply #23 Wednesday, July 9, 2003 9:27 AM
For goodness sake why bother! You can only look at one page at a time anyway. Seems an awful lot of effort was put into something that is cumbersome and would take someone with six eyes going different directions all at once just to surf the web. 
Chris
Reply #24 Wednesday, July 9, 2003 12:38 PM
Reply #24 Wednesday, July 9, 2003 12:38 PM
Hmm...Why bother? I guess it depends on how you want to surf the web. I don't want to have just one web page open as you say. I always have more than one web page open and hopping between them in the form of invidual Interent Explorer instances is extremely awkward
Couple small things missing from this iRider. thing. It doesn't display an incon in the addressbar so there's no way to drag the current page to the Links toolbar. Maybe there's some other way to do it, but I had to fire up IE and do it from there.
Also iRider needs a Go button to the right of the address bar. If I can use the mouse to select an address from the address bar, I should be able to use the mouse to then go to that webpage rather than having to hit the Return key
Couple small things missing from this iRider. thing. It doesn't display an incon in the addressbar so there's no way to drag the current page to the Links toolbar. Maybe there's some other way to do it, but I had to fire up IE and do it from there.
Also iRider needs a Go button to the right of the address bar. If I can use the mouse to select an address from the address bar, I should be able to use the mouse to then go to that webpage rather than having to hit the Return key
DaWebMassa
Reply #25 Wednesday, July 9, 2003 12:49 PM
Reply #25 Wednesday, July 9, 2003 12:49 PM
Lightstar... if you only hit one of two pages a day, sure that's fine. However, comparing prices, specs, researching, etc. having more than one page loaded at a time is a big time saver.
Chris... valid point on the go button but weren't you the one who said you don't like the mouse?
Chris... valid point on the go button but weren't you the one who said you don't like the mouse?
Chris
Reply #26 Wednesday, July 9, 2003 1:01 PM
Reply #26 Wednesday, July 9, 2003 1:01 PM
It depends 
I like to be able to do everything via mouse when the keyboard is out of reach. However, if the keyboard is on my lap, I like to take advantage of the speed and shortucts it offers over hunting and pecking with the mouse
I like to be able to do everything via mouse when the keyboard is out of reach. However, if the keyboard is on my lap, I like to take advantage of the speed and shortucts it offers over hunting and pecking with the mouse
Richrap
Reply #27 Wednesday, July 9, 2003 7:10 PM
Reply #27 Wednesday, July 9, 2003 7:10 PM
I belong to an on-line group and also play Pogo Games periodically. I'm finding that iRider opens popup message 'reply' windows and 'popup' game windows but fails to 'embed' the reply back to the previous page, the message thread. I've yet to find a way to fix or overcome this problem. Unless iRider has a solution, I won't be buying. 
paxx
Reply #28 Wednesday, July 9, 2003 7:54 PM
Reply #28 Wednesday, July 9, 2003 7:54 PM
I find it annoying on this messageboard.
Each page here refreshes to the exact point you last read, which results in two pages loading in the thumnail view for each topic clicked. Annoying.
Each page here refreshes to the exact point you last read, which results in two pages loading in the thumnail view for each topic clicked. Annoying.
Chris
Reply #29 Wednesday, July 9, 2003 7:56 PM
Reply #29 Wednesday, July 9, 2003 7:56 PM
Yes, popups can be probelmatic. Some you want, some you don't want. Having a popup be captured in another tab is nicer than having it popup, but 90% of the time I don't want the popup, and therefore still have to close the tab.
That's not as flexible as having a user configurable popup handler in which the user can specify known webpages that have undesriable popups, or having an option to toggle the popup handler when going to a website that has desirable popups that you don't want automatically supressed (like tv guide's website)
One thing I've noticed with tabbed browsers and popups is that some popups are pop under ads. Normally it opens a window under everything. However, with a tabbbed browser the popunder ad is opened in a nother tab, and the whole tabbed browser's Z-Order is changed and pushed to the bottom of the desktop's windows, thereby forcing me to bring the browser back to the foreground. I haven't tried to see if iRider has the same problem
That said, I keep going back and forth between a tabbed browser and iRider, and iRider's threaded, vertical thumbnail mechanism is so much nicer, as well as it's multi-link handling. It encourages you to have lots of webpages open vs. the half dozen or so I normally have with a tabbed browser (after which the tabs become unmanageable)
That's not as flexible as having a user configurable popup handler in which the user can specify known webpages that have undesriable popups, or having an option to toggle the popup handler when going to a website that has desirable popups that you don't want automatically supressed (like tv guide's website)
One thing I've noticed with tabbed browsers and popups is that some popups are pop under ads. Normally it opens a window under everything. However, with a tabbbed browser the popunder ad is opened in a nother tab, and the whole tabbed browser's Z-Order is changed and pushed to the bottom of the desktop's windows, thereby forcing me to bring the browser back to the foreground. I haven't tried to see if iRider has the same problem
That said, I keep going back and forth between a tabbed browser and iRider, and iRider's threaded, vertical thumbnail mechanism is so much nicer, as well as it's multi-link handling. It encourages you to have lots of webpages open vs. the half dozen or so I normally have with a tabbed browser (after which the tabs become unmanageable)
Paul Doland
Reply #30 Thursday, July 10, 2003 10:30 AM
Reply #30 Thursday, July 10, 2003 10:30 AM
By the way, I believe that iRider works with most pop-up blocker utilities. So, while I find iRider's default behavior for popups satisfactory, but for those that don't, go ahead and use a popup blocker.
BoddhiC
Reply #31 Thursday, July 10, 2003 12:24 PM
Reply #31 Thursday, July 10, 2003 12:24 PM
I agree with several threads - this looks slick, but I don't see that it does anything that Avant Browser or MyIE2 don't do, and they're free 
BoddhiC
Reply #32 Friday, July 11, 2003 7:10 PM
Reply #32 Friday, July 11, 2003 7:10 PM
I feel obligated to update my previous note, I went ahead and tried it out afterall. I do find the thumbnails with the tree-like structure of subpages opening beneath and indented to the parent page to be quite nice. It certainly has a nice visual appeal. You know, in response to one of the earlier posts, I opened three of their 'great rides" at the same time which opened at least 300 web pages and my RAM usage never went from above 90% (I set iRider to reserve 10% of my RAM - this is adjustible within the program) (I have 512mB of RAM by the way)with no noticeable slowdown of my computer. I think this is pretty decent memory management in my opinion.
Chris
Reply #33 Friday, July 11, 2003 8:51 PM
Reply #33 Friday, July 11, 2003 8:51 PM
I noticed a couple of other glitches.
1. For some reason the animated iRider graphic in the upper right hand corner of the browser has disappeared.
2. The back button doesn't always navigate properly. On some webpages, I click a link and that page loads in the current window. But if I press the back button on the toolbar, instead of going back and loading the previous page that was displayed in that window, it instead advances to the previous thumbnail tab entry. Instead, I have to right click the webpage and press the Back on the context menu. Very annoying. It should only go back to the parent thumbnail's window if there is no previous page that was previously loaded in that window
1. For some reason the animated iRider graphic in the upper right hand corner of the browser has disappeared.
2. The back button doesn't always navigate properly. On some webpages, I click a link and that page loads in the current window. But if I press the back button on the toolbar, instead of going back and loading the previous page that was displayed in that window, it instead advances to the previous thumbnail tab entry. Instead, I have to right click the webpage and press the Back on the context menu. Very annoying. It should only go back to the parent thumbnail's window if there is no previous page that was previously loaded in that window
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Reply #21 Wednesday, July 9, 2003 12:48 AM
When I say customizing the entire thing, I mean I can drag and drop the GUI into any form I want, add custom elements with two clicks of the mouse, and remove any unwanted stuff just as easily.