Maybe. It's in the going back and forth fromn renew to the list again and back to renew that I notice it most. I hadn't used Firefox much before because with my older OS I thought it was slow, but I just downloaded the 1.5 so I could download the new MacAfee evaluation of sites--have you seen that?--so I've been trying everything first on the Firefox, after moving my most important booksmarks to it. It could be the difference between Mac and PC. Cindy --- Pratik patel <pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Cindy, > > Your comments are surprising to me because I find > that Firefox, at least > under Windows, is much faster than Internet Explorer > in loading bookshae > pages. That may differ under the Apple OS, though. > > > Pratik > > > > Pratik Patel > Director, CUNY Assistive technology Services (CATS) > The City University of New York > pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx > > -----Original Message----- > From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Cindy > Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 2:10 AM > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Why Does Reloading > Pages Take So Long? > > I don't know if my experience will bear any relation > to yours or not, because I don't know if you have to > use a particular browser. I've found that Netscape > and > Firefox are much slower than IE when I'm dealing > with > the page one and especially page two, which I use > more. With IE, I can renew my book, go back to the > list and and renew again almost instantly. With > Netscape and Firefox it takes, as you describe > below, > almost as long as to open the list originally. > > Cindy > > --- Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I was just wondering: When I first load the Step > > One page, or do an author search by clicking on > one > > of the letters and browsing through the names, it > > takes a good while to load the first time. But > when > > I look at a book on the Step One page to decide > > whether I want to take it or not, then alt-left > > arrow back to the Step One page, or look at an > > author and alt-left arrow back to the list of > > authors under a specific letter, it seems to take > > just as long as it did originally. I haven't > timed > > it exactly, but it's close if not exactly as long. > > > I have checked my temporary internet files disk > > allocation and it is at 3% - which is 1.2 gigs out > > of a 40 gig drive. Shouldn't these pages load > faster > > the second time I try to go to them? Isn't that > > what these temporary folders are for, to enable > > faster loading of pages already visited? I would > > think it would pop back up right away, being on my > > hard drive. Isn't that how it works? > > > > Thanks for any enlightenment. > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject > line. To get a list of > available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in > the subject line. > > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject > line. To get a list of available commands, put the > word 'help' by itself in the subject line. > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.