firefox addons

If you are anything like me, you are using Firefox and a multitude of addons. The downside to all this it turns out is that not only does Firefox become a huge memory hog (it is not unusual for Firefox to be using ~400MB of memory) it also becomes very slow.

The one thing I found which speeds up Firefox no end was disabling the Firebug plugin. I use it a lot when editing the layout of this blog but those are only for short bursts at a time so I can easily disable it.

As for the memory usage, well we shall see..

Cuil (pronounced Cool ) has launched their new search engine - and it is making ripples across the net because of its claims to have an index of over 120 billion web pages bigger than Google’s. Google doesn’t actually talk about how many web pages are in their index but it is thought to be [...]

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Given its GPS functionality and superior mapping software, the lack of turn by turn GPS applications on the iPhone was a glaring omission. Especially as Windows Mobiles have had this functionality for years now.
Well it looks like that will quickly be rectified with the release of version 2.1 of the iPhone. This version will allow [...]

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As per my previous post, my posts are out of whack as I am behind on them. To summarise one of them.. I got an iPhone and it is the best convergence device I have ever had. It really does replace my mp3 player,PDA and phone.
One of the major reasons for buying the iPhone [...]

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I am far behind on completing posts lately (I have about 8 near completion) and now hate the back button on my mouse as I just lost a post I completed on push email for gmail using the iphone. I’ll try and remember it and write it up later now.
sighs.
(you would have thought Wordpress could [...]

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