read vs unread icons

[jkane]

I noticed that if I get distracted for 15 minutes and come back to the page I was on the icons for what was unread go away on the next page load!

How does this board determine unread posts?

[StarvingForHDTV]

I brought up this issue long ago.  I think they said you should live with it.  Try doing a New Message search when you get here, that way they will all be in one place at least.  While I'm on the phone I try to click around so I don't lose my markers.  Not a elegant solution.

Good luck,

Starving

[Gregg Lengling]

The way I do it is to click on the  "View New Posts" icon to get the list of new posts and after I read each post I use the BACK button on my browser to go back to the list.  This way you are not reloading the page but just backing up to your archived page.

[davezen2]

I do it pretty much the same way as Gregg, except I right click the individual posts and open them in a new window.  Saves me time instead of waiting, albeit 5 seconds, for the page to come back up after hitting "back".

[Bebop]

Haven't discovered tab browsering yet? :-)

[jkane]

I do just what Gregg does.  I use the back button all the time.  But if I start doing something else, the next time I press back, it shows the unread Forums just fine.  However, when I go into the next forum to read threads, all the threads are marked read even though I have not read them yet!  I end up double checking the date and time stamps to make sure I didn't miss something.

Sorry, I am bit slow today.  I don't get the "tab browsering" comment.  

[Gregg Lengling]

He was referring to right clicking the GOTO and opening a new window that way you are never reloading the new posts list.

[Todd Wiedemann]

He was referring to right clicking the GOTO and opening a new window that way you are never reloading the new posts list.

Maybe.

I think more along the lines of Opera or FireFox ... you have tabs along the top of the browser window ...

[Detritus]

Indeed. Firefox and Mozilla both support tab browsing.

Just right click a link and say "Open in New Tab". Doesn't open a new window, just adds tabs at the top, so you can tab all new posts and close them one by one as you read them.

I do that with news tickers all the time.

And using Firefox, I don't have to worry about the weekly IE exploits:) Like the nasty one right now..

[Steve Mann]

Originally posted by Detritus
And using Firefox, I don't have to worry about the weekly IE exploits:) Like the nasty one right now..

Boy, ain't that the truth. Firefox kicks butt on it's own, but when you compare it to the hassle of using IE, well... there's actually no comparison.  

[Bebop]

Little more info on Firefox and tabbed browsing. basically, you just has to experience it yourself.

http://texturizer.net/firefox/features.html

[Steve Mann]

And more to be found here:

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

Okay... I think I've done enough with the off-topic stuff.  

[tazman]

Not to drag this out more than needed, those of you using the FireFox browser, does it have an mail client?  If so, can you manage multiple email accounts with it, like Netscape does?  I'm currently using Netscape 7.1 and it has tabbed browsing and manages multiple email accounts and I do all the things that Gregg and the others mentioned.

[Bebop]

http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

[kjnorman]

Staying off topic - sorry  - but thank you for the tip on Firefox and Thnderbird.

I downloaded these yesterday and just switched both my IE6 and Outlook to using these.  

Now I only have to show my wife and then I willl be free of two more bits of microsoft crud.

Thanks
Kerry

PS.  I do like the tabbed browsing.