Comments on: How to speed up Firefox

By: Alek

Alek — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 20:55:33 +0000

Wow! Everything is amazingly snappy now. Thanks very much for the info. However, the biggest problem I have with firefox is that it takes ages to originally start up. Any way of fixing that problem too?

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 01:05:39 +0000

Iâ€™ll be flying over there occasionally for a week or so

Ahem. By that I mean that every so often, I’ll be flying over to the US and stay there for a week. Sorry about the ambiguity.

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 01:02:23 +0000

It went into my link log a short while back, something I’m thinking of merging into my blogging software once I get tagging up and running. However, not having direct access to the server means that thing are a bit of a pain. I’ve been contemplating converting everything over to PHP or Python and moving from being hosted with DC to some other host. I won’t be moving over to Wordpress mind you: I’m still a bit weary of it from back in the days of b2, and last time I looked in internals hadn’t improved all that much from b2’s spaghetti code.

However, while I’m up here staying with my parents I’m on dial-up (ick!). That means I go online (with Tele2, who for the moment are less of a rip-off than the others), quickly look for everything I want to read (hurray for Bloglines and tabbed browsing), scan those for any links of interest, and disconnect.

Things are fine up here, though I have got a wee bit of news: I will probably be moving over to Boston in a few months. Strange as it may sound, I was headhunted by a company in the US, and I finally gave into them. I have no idea what they see in me! For the next while I’ll be staying in Ireland as getting a H1B isn’t exactly a piece of cake these days, but I’ll be flying over there occasionally for a week or so. I’ll be heading over in October to start with so I can pick up some hardware and software from them and get started on some projects.

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 22:36:58 +0000

Michael,

thanks for adding all that extra info - very useful.

Keith, how come you haven’t blogged about that on your own blog? How are you getting on in the North West by the way?

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 21:27:46 +0000

In other news, did you know that Opera have made the desktop version of their browser completely free? No ads, no registration fee. Quite a good idea on their part.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:52:12 +0000

Oh, and the plug-in can be found here: http://www.bitstorm.org/extensions/tweak/

The plugin makes it easy to switch between slow and fast.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:50:54 +0000

Yes, it has. It might even crash some (slow, memory-weak) webservers. On slow PC’s or slow internet connections it even reverts into the opposite and makes site access SLOWER.

There’s a quite lengthy discussion about this on webmasterworld.com: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/8007.htm

By: Ed Byrne

Ed Byrne — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:37:25 +0000

I wonder does that have any effect on the target’s site stats?

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:36:31 +0000

#5 is obsolote since many versions

There’s a cool plugin to manage the rest, called “TweakNetwork”