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 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.

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.

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)

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.

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

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.

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