Didn't try lowering parameters on Naviscope. I disabled and uninstalled Naviscope. I realized that the way the software searches, while interesting and (to me at least) amusing is primitive and ineffective generally. If you go post after post through a thread, Naviscope will prefetch the next page for you and that's a good thing. But I never surf that way. I visit peoplemarks and then go to my favorite posters, who post on numerous threads. I did succeed in getting Naviscope to prefetch posts by a bookmarked person who signed his name to every post, thus giving N a keyword to search. But, normally N would be off prefetching other threads, pages etc, even tho I checked the feature which supposedly prevents it from doing this while a request for a specific page is entered.
What eventually developed was a situation where N was doing vast amount of downloading which appeared to be completely outside the parameters and this downloading would go on indefinitely. This happened with typical parameters (10,7,5) so I surmised that a glitch had developed. During these prolonged download events, I could not get a selected page to come up over a period of minutes.
As for "P.P.S. Now that I have Naviscope displaying my Next pages instantly, I'm hoping to discover a method of seeing the
First page with equal speed. Any hints? " This is one of the limitations of the program design. For it to be able to prefetch the "first page" it would have to have the capacity to prefetch and store ALL pages. Obviously impossible.
On their website they talk about a Pro version which will be "smart" and learn where you surf and then prefetch those pages. I'd like to test that version when it comes out.
So far, no one has addressed the potential security issue of allowing N to act as a server. This opens a back door to your computer in my opinion and when hackers study this, they will have easy access through your firewall via this backdoor. I'm not an expert on this but I think it would be an easy hack. JMHO.
best,
Rick |
