Last month Mozilla published a list of slow performing add-ons for the Firefox web browser. The findings back then were that add-ons increases the startup time of the web browser by ten percent on average. That’s a lot, considering that five add-ons would on average increase the browser’s start-up time by 50%. The basic idea [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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Speed up your Ubuntu machine boot time
Are you desperately searching for ways to finally reach that elusive 10 second boot time? You certainly heard that Ubuntu 10.04 has the capability of doing just that right? It can…but you have to help it along. One of the ways you can help your boot time is removing unnecessary services and drivers that are [...]
How does Plurk work?
Are you as sick of hearing about Twitter as I am? See the problem is that I never really “got” Twitter… I tried, I really did. I signed up and followed people and Twittered regularly, but it never really did it for me. Eventually I just forgot about it. Enter Plurk. Considering micro-blogging isn’t something [...]