If you're new to iRider, please save yourself time and potential frustration by reviewing the essentials on this page before you start. iRider works like an ordinary browser, but there are additional special features that aren't plainly visible.

You can also see Using iRider for a complete overview of major features, or watch the iRider Demo movie.

Eliminate the wait with Surf-Ahead
To use context menus, hold right-click
Use the Next Page command
Open several links at once

Eliminate the wait with Surf-Ahead

(On a mouse configured for left-handed use, use the left button to Surf Ahead.)

Surf-Ahead is especially useful on a page with many links you're interested in, such as search engine results or a magazine's table of contents.

You can also stay focused on your current page and feel free to Surf-Ahead any interesting links and review them later. No need to interrupt your current page and have to find your place again later.

Find out more about how to use Surf-Ahead

To use context menus, hold right-click

The mouse buttons can be customized, and you can choose to have right-click only invoke menus. To do so, use the Tools menu iRider Options command, go to the Navigation tab, and choose options in the Surf-Ahead section.

If your mouse has a middle button, you may prefer to use it for Surf-Ahead, though some users find this awkward to use, especially with a scroll wheel button. You can also assign no specific button to Surf-Ahead and instead hold down the Ctrl key while left-clicking a link to Surf-Ahead, but this can become tedious if you use Surf-Ahead frequently.

Use the Next Page command

Next Page takes you to the next downloaded page that you haven't visited yet, or the page that's closest to completion. (Keyboard: [F4] or [ * ] on the numeric pad.) Click Next Page when you're done with the current page and you're ready to go instantly to another downloaded page. Since pages don't always download in the order they appear in the Page List, Next Page is the usually the quickest way to go through pages.

Using Next Page in combination with Surf Ahead, you can fly through pages with little or no waiting, especially using the keyboard and mouse together.

Next Page also makes it easy to completely explore a website or multiple websites: just Surf-Ahead any links you might be interested in and use Next Page when you're ready for another page. No need to use the Back button, remember which parts of a site you've already seen, or wait for pages.

Open several links at once

Select text or images containing multiple links and click on one of the links to open all of them at once. Much faster than clicking them one-by-one. (You can also select links and then use the Open Selected Links command.)

You can even select multiple items in a Favorites (bookmarks) folder and click one to open them all.

Find out more about selecting links on a web page

Opening multiple links is an especially cool way to put a fast internet connection to work for you: just open bunches of pages and flip through them like a magazine or catalog. Don't bother scanning a list of links and wondering which ones you might be interested in: open them all and flip through the pages themselves. (On slower connections, you may need to be more selective in opening links that take time to download.)