IE: how to set some URLs before going on-line?

[no.to...@gmail.com]

I think the IE on this Win7 PC is IE8.

Please explain how do I:
* load several URLs, preferably not manually, but by pasteing or
'inserting a file', BEFORE I go on-line;
* disable graphics.
* if I tried to d/l an audio-clip [what do they call them] of a 45min
radio-talk, does it:
show me where/that I'm going to save the file BEFORE it starts
d/l-ing [last week, after it had d/l-ed a *.pdf, I ended up with
the option of saving 103 *.png files; whereas under linux I just
d/l-ed a single *.pdf in the background, which I later filtered through
`pdf2txt` to give me the plain-text editable, e-mailable...etc. info].
* and does it show how big the file is and how much is downloaded
while it's costing me connection time?

== TIA.

PS. what's the proper english explanation of the american-slang
"tab"? Does it mean a 'category/classification-set'?