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10 Jun 09

Don’t Let Firefox Slow Down Things - Firefox Ninjas

When you are working with any window frame on your computer a memory is allocated to it on RAM and when you minimize that window the memory still remains on the RAM.  This make your computer a bit slower. It’s the same case with the browser because when you are opening a browser you are actually working on some window.

To avoid this problem Firefox unlike many other browser have a utility for this problem. All you need to do is just type “about:config” in the address bar and hit the enter key. Right-click anywhere on the page and select “boolean” under the “New” menu item. You will see a dialog box, type “config.trim_on_minimize” and set it to true.

This setting let the memory allocated for the browser window to get stored in the hard disk instead of RAM, when it is minimized, thus making your computer main memory inevitable to the minimization of the browser.

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Speeding Up AJAX with JSON

The JavaScript Object Notation, or JSON, is a lightweight syntax for representing data. JSON's elegance comes from the fact that it's a subset of the JavaScript language itself.

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YSlow for Firebug

Speed up your web pages with YSlow\n\nYSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool.

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06 Apr 07

ImgRed.com - Image Redirection

To avoid hot-linking an image, prepend http://imgred.com/ before the URL. To show a thumbnail of the image, prepend http://imgred.com/tn/ before the URL.
Details: When posting on message boards or blogs, often you want to show or link to an image on anot

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