TIP
Don't bother loading images while you're searching. Its quicker not to look at ads.
Netscape	MSIE
Click off "Autoload Images" on the "Options" pull-down menu	On the "View" pull-down menu, click "Options". Click the "General" tab, then un-click the "Load Images" checkbox. Click "Apply", then "Okay".

Search engines? I find its quicker to type in, say, infoseek in the location bar, instead of waiting for the Netscape all-in-one page with six search engines on it. I only use one at a time. (You can only use one surfboard at a time unless you're some kind of mutant with prehensile toes.)

TIP
Disable the Directory Buttons
Netscape	MSIE
Click off "Show Directory Buttons" on the "Options" pull-down menu	On the "View" pull-down menu, click "Options". Click the "General" tab, then un-click the "Load Images" checkbox. Click "Apply", then "Okay".

All the functions of the Directory Buttons are accessible from the space-saving pull-down menus anyway. So lose 'em!

Next, and this will be hard for some of you surfers, lose the Nav' Buttons, too!

"But I like my Back button!" some of you will whine.

Fine. Live in the Past.

Or maybe you have a huge monitor and couldn't care less about viewablw real estate.

Whatever. The rest of us should be flexible. Remember the words of Lao Tzu,

The brittle reed breaks in a strong wind.