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The New Feature Help () is a new feature of WebSpeedReader that provides help for new features in an reverse chronological order—that is, the newest features are at the top of the file, the oldest at the bottom. Because this has just been started, there isn't much here right now. It begins with version 8.7.22. This file is for people who have read the Help file of WebSpeedReader that didn't include the new features at the time they had read it. The New Feature Help makes it much easier for people to keep up to date on new features without going through the main Help file again.
You can now save all open windows as a group, or session, by selecting from the menu. You can list all groups in the sidebar by clicking the G tab at the top of the sidebar or selecting . Groups will also be displayed in the submenu. Simply load the group by clicking it. Groups are saved as a special folder in Favorites—!wsr\Groups. Therefore, you can rename either the group or the individual URLs in each group, delete the group or individual URLs in the group, move them around, or add to them by selecting from the menu. You can also look at only the groups by entering "\Groups\" in the filter box at the top of the Organize Favorites form. As with any Favorite, a deleted group is stored in the Delete folder. To undelete it, just move it to another folder. Remember, anything in the Delete folder will actually be deleted when the WebSpeedReader application ends.
More than 1 group can be loaded, and individual Favorites can also be loaded along with the groups. Actually, any Favorite folder can be considered a group, because clicking the folder in the form downloads all of the links in that folder. What makes groups more convenient is that they can be saved as Favorites without prompting to add to Favorites for each link, and each folder can be quickly displayed in the sidebar.
Sometimes a document is too long to read in one sitting. Now you can select , to not only load the current page automatically when WebSpeedReader is started again, but to have it scrolled to the exact page position when you selected the command. If you don't want it scrolled, just select the command before you scroll down. The document will only be loaded once, unless the Shift key was pressed when starting WebSpeedReader, in which case, only the Start page will be loaded. When WebSpeedReader is started normally, the marked pages will be reloaded, but only once. Think of it as a temporary home page. If you want to have it reloaded again, just select again.
To find the current website's popularity and related links, select . Alexa information will download in a background page.
The drop-down list of keywords allows the easy selection of keywords or "folders" from what you already have. No need to scroll through or look for all folders having to do with computers for example. You'll be able to see the complete list in the drop-down box, which simply shows all folders or keywords that have the characters that you type. As you type more, the list gets shorter. You can select any folder by either tabbing down into the list, or using the mouse to click on a desired category. If you press the Tab key or the ↓ key, then continue until the desired folder is highlighted, then press either the Enter key or the → key to input it in the Keywords textbox. You can also press the Page Up, Page Down, Home, or End keys to go to the top or bottom of the list. Note that, as with the main address box in WebSpeedReader, you can type any part of the keywords—you don't have to start from the beginning.
Clicking the P tab right above the sidebar displays some information about the current page, which includes the document title, URL; the number of links, images, forms, and frames; the number of readable characters, words, and the approximate time to read them, and the cookie associated with the document's domain. This information will be displayed for each page downloaded in the current browser window or for each page as it becomes activated. Turn Page Info off by clicking one of the other sidebar tabs. This is particularly useful if you come across a long document, and want to know about how much time it will take to read it. The calculation assumes a reading rate of 400 words per minute. Note, however, that, at the moment, it does not take frames into account.
If there are no home pages, or if you press the Shift key while starting up WebSpeedReader, then WebSpeedReader will load a start page that presents numerous other options, such as downloading scheduled pages, downloading the last session, viewing history if it is being maintained, or viewing or organizing Favorites. These options can also be selected from the menu or toolbar, but this adds convenience and more utility than just loading a blank page when the Shift key is pressed.
Windows Tip - You can change the Windows default mouse wheel scrolling of 3 lines by selecting . Note that this change takes effect in all applications that uses the Windows default scrolling.
Bug Fixes - With Windows XP SP2, there were focus problems with the popup blocker, preventing the scrolling of text, particularly in frames, and also preventing the use of other keyboard shortcuts.
For a long time, WebSpeedReader had the option of opening all links on a page, all internal links, all external links, and all selected links from the menu. Now you can select links on a page, then download all selected links by choosing from the context menu. Remember that you also can get Internet Explorer's context menu by Ctrl + right-clicking.
A new keyboard shortcut—Alt+Backspace—and a new menu item——has been added that displays the previous window.
Users sometimes go to the next document by mistake, and it was difficult to find the previous document, or it was replaced by a new document. This has been changed, so that the previous document is not replaced or unloaded right away, so that the user can immediately go back it. Just click the ◄ tab to the left of the address box, or press Numpad - to back to the previous window. You can select this command repeatedly to go back and forth quickly between 2 documents. If you press Numpad 5 to unload a form, the form will remain loaded, but its entry in the sidebar will have a line through it. This is so you can return to it if you pressed Numpad 5 by mistake. Once you move to yet another document, then it will be unloaded. Note that pressing the keys on the numeric keypad will only effect commands if you are not in an editing box, such as the address box, or a textbox or textarea in the document, which will then just input the characters.
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Version 8.7.22 - WebSpeedReader now implements the Windows XP Service Pack 2 popup blocker, which can block many popups that couldn't be blocked before, most of which were HTML Dialog windows. When a popup is blocked you will hear the characteristic sound that IE makes when blocking a popup, unless you uncheck Play a sound when a pop-up is blocked in the Pop-up Blocker Settings dialog box. WebSpeedReader uses the same settings as Internet Explorer. The popup blocker is on by default, but can be changed by selecting .
Set the popup settings by selecting the Settings command button. The Popup Blocker Settings dialog box is self-explanatory. The default setting is to block most automatic popups, that are created by script, but allows popups that you specifically click. This is the best setting. You probably don't want to set it at the highest settings, which would block all popups, including links that you click on. There are many links on the web that are targeted to new windows, and these would be prevented unless you press the Ctrl key while clicking the link, and you wouldn't know to press the Ctrl key until you click the link and see that there is no navigation and you hear the sound (the sound can be turned off in the Popup Blocker Settings dialog box.) Thus, the highest setting would be a great inconvenience.
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