The Technofile Web site has moved. This is an expanded version of the column that appears in print.
Browsers are great.
Don't get me wrong. Those of you with 128 gigabytes of RAM can switch to another channel. The rest of the world needs to sit up and take notice, because the one thing most surfers don't have is a lot of time to wait for their browsers to do something. That's especially true when you can do the same thing on a meager RAM budget. You do this by using an ftp program instead of your browser when you want to download some files.