9 out of 10 monkeys believe they are not behind glass

I was disappointed when I upgraded to Firefox 3 and found that one of my favorite extensions was killed. FasterFox was one of those tweaks that really made a difference in browsing speeds.

Then I stumbled across this today.

Reduce the amount of RAM Firefox uses for its cache feature

1. Type “about:config” (no quotes) in the adress bar in the browser.
2. Find “browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewer”
3. Set it’s value to “0“;(Zero)

Increase the Speed at Which Firefox loads pages

1. Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit Enter.
   (Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.)
2. Alter the entries as follows:
• Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
• Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
• Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 10.
• This means it will make 10 requests at once.
3. Lastly, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0“;.(Zero)

This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages faster now.

Optionally (for even faster web browsing) here are some more options for your about:config (you might have to create some of these).

1. network.dns.disableIPv6: set “false”
2. “content.notify.backoffcount”: set “5“; (Five)
3. “plugin.expose_full_path”: set “true”.
4. “ui.submenuDelay”: set “0; (zero)

This little hack will drop Firefox’s RAM usage down to 10 Mb when minimized:

1. Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.
2. Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
3. In the box that pops up enter “config.trim_on_minimize”. Press Enter.
4. Now select True and then press Enter.
5. Restart Firefox.

But I love lasagna. Out of all the foods out there, lasagna has to be my #1 comfort food.

Which is odd, since my mom never made it. Or that I had very rarely as a kid.

But as an adult, a steaming hot pan of lasagna is like love covered in a sauce of awesomeness.

It is interesting how you get steeped in the job/life/stuff you do. You start to use slang that is straight from your experience and not really remembering that most, if not everyone, outside of your profession or hobby, will have absolutely no clue what you are talking about.

I personally love my vernacular. I think my diction and overall vocabulary is fairly balanced and well used, but then again, sometimes I get caught using an acronym or slang that just draws a blank stare.

Like a deer caught in headlights, the poor creature just got brain-slapped by my stream of languagetrash (new word). (I am a firm believer that similarly to German, concatenation of two words should always result in a new, better, word.)

Last week, while fixing someone’s computer, they asked me a question about a website. I mentioned that if they typed a secure link instead of the standard http address they would be able to go around the redirect. So I said, “Just type in h t t p s colon whack whack, dub dub dub, and your address.”

The whack whack got em. But if that didn’t, the dub dub dub would have. I laid them out like landmines.

“What is a whack whack?” At this point jokes about the “Any” key start spinning around my head.

And I had to explain the back slash, forward slash distinction.

Then, “Dub dub dub?”

“That is short of w, w, w, as in www.address.com.” It is less of a tongue twister and a bit faster if you say dubdubdub, instead of double-u, double-eww, double-you.

lulz. (That is the plural form of lol for you plebes.)