- Installation
- Using the Quickbrowse Method ©
- Using the Quickbrowse
Method on multiple computers
- Using
Quickbrowse to convert open tabs into a Quickbrowse page
- Recovering a Quickbrowse page
- Un-installing the Quickbrowse add-on
Installation
If you haven't yet installed the Quickbrowse add-on, simply visit www.quickbrowse.com
and click the install button.
Using the Quickbrowse Method ©
The Quickbrowse Method © is a two-step process that will accelerate your daily reading
routine and save you time every single day.
In Step One you rapidly go through all your daily online information sources (any
sites, e.g. the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, blogs, iGoogle) by scrolling down
just one single page. As you scroll down, you mark, by clicking, the links (usually
headlines) you want to read. In Step Two, you rapidly scroll down another single page that
contains the full texts of all the pages, articles, etc. that you selected in Step One
(Quickbrowse will automatically display New York Times articles in their single-page
versions).
To transform your daily reading routine with the Quickbrowse Method you should create a
Firefox bookmark for a set of tabs that contain all the news sources you want to read on a
daily basis (you only need to do this once; click here if you need to learn more about tabbed browsing). To create the bookmark, open all the news
sources in one Firefox window, in separate tabs. The New York Times and the Wall Street
Journal offers you options for viewing all of the current issue's content in one page,
which is especially useful for this. On the Times site, this is called "Today's
Times". At the Journal the page is called "Today's Newspaper". If you read
papers that don't offer this option, simply open each news section you want to read in a
separate tab (Quickbrowse will combine them all into a single page anyway). Once you have
opened all your news and information sources in separate tabs inside a single Firefox
window, click "Bookmarks" in the Firefox menu bar and select "Bookmark All
Tabs". Proceed and create a bookmark. You might want to call it something like
"daily news.":
Once you've installed the Quickbrowse add-on, simply click Bookmark in the menu bar, then click the
bookmark folder you created, then select "Open All as Quickbrowse":
Your entire
daily read will open as one, quick-to-scroll page. It may take a few seconds for all pages
to build, depending on their number.
Now, scroll down, and click all the headlines / links, etc you want to read. Quickbrowse
will highlight them to indicate that they are collected. This is Step One of the
Quickbrowse Method. If you want to open a link right away, simply right-click and click "open in new window".
When you are done selecting headlines, click "open collected links" on the top
of the page:
Another quickbrowse page will open, containing all the stories you want to read. Now, in
Step Two of the Quickbrowse Methos, simply keep scrolling down to read them all. FYI: All
New York Times stories will be included as one page, even if the Times Web site displays
them in multiple pages.
Using
Quickbrowse to convert open tabs into a Quickbrowse page
Simply click "Tools" - "Quickbrowse" - "Open Tabs as
Quickbrowse" to convert a set of open tabs into a Quickbrowse page.
Recovering a Quickbrowse page
Say, you use the Quickbrowse Method and have selected lots of articles in step one, and
create the Quickbrowse page with the full pages of all the articles -- and then your
computer crashes. In this case, you can always rebuild your most recent Quickbrowse page
by clicking "Tools" -> "Quickbrowse" - > "Open Last
Quickbrowse".
Using the
Quickbrowse Method on multiple computers
Say you create a Quickbrowse page with articles you want to read at home, and want to
continue reading the page on your office computer. Simply "Bookmark" on your
home computer to create a bookmark of all of the selected article pages. If you use
Google's Browser Sync add-on for Firefox all your Firefox bookmarks will be synchronized
across all your computers and you can easily open the quickbrowse page containing your
articles from your office computer.
Saving a Quickbrowse page
You can save a Quickbrowse page as a bookmark of a set of tabs by clicking the
"bookmark" button on top of the Quickbrowse page.
Un-installing the Quickbrowse
add-on
To uninstall the Quickbrowse add-on, you may use the standard Mozilla Firefox 'Add-ons'
window. Once you access the 'Add-ons' window, select the 'Quickbrowse' extension and click
'Uninstall'. The Quickbrowse Software will be uninstalled and will no longer be visible
when you restart Firefox.
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