Browsers
IE6 pronounced dead at the scene, “mourners” flood in to join the festivities…
Feb 24th
Hors D'ouvres will be served near the IE6 dartboard?
IE6 will be barely missed by us here at AskTheAdmin. We’ve had bad times, and we’ve had worse times with our old frienemy Internet Explorer 6. Rest in pieces you old coot.
Commodore 64 (the one you used to play Bruce Lee on) ,8,1
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Memory Fox Helps you Tame Memory Usage in Firefox
Dec 16th
Do you use Firefox? Most of our readers do and we all know that 10 open tabs can be highly problematic for our system memory. There have been times I have seen my Firefox get close to 1.5 gigs of memory. That is just unacceptable!
So what do you do? Do you stop using Firefox? Absolutely not! Will you use Internet Explorer? It is just as big of a resource hog and it causes system crashes as well (well it depends on what version you are using).
I have found a much needed extension to control memory usage in Firefox called Memory Fox. You can grab the installer over here.
So to start, I took a look at my 4 open tabs in Firefox. They are using 256 Megs of memory. No big deal right. But a few hours from now that can balloon up to 4 times what it is. You can see my task manager open below with the Firefox process at the top hogging up my resources.
And that is on a good day! What about my Vista machine at home that ONLY runs Firefox? Take a look at the 1.4 gigs of used memory below. Sheeesh! Apps should not be allowed to do that!!
Read the rest of my post on MakeUseOf.com
I feel the need….the need for speed
Mar 29th
Who doesn’t???
FireFox got a feature called pipeline which can speedup things and you will be able to browse fasssssssster.
The thing about pipelining is instead of using the old fashion way of sending a request then wait for the response from web server then send the next request, you can just send up to 8 requests while the responses are on the way, that would speedup your browsing if you got a fast Internet connection (there will be no significant difference if you got low speed).
The only drawback (and the reason why it is turned off by default) is the possibility that some web servers might not like the pipeline behavior and therefore stop responding to your requests (break the web page), to this day I didn’t have any such problems (am I lucky or good?).
Here is what you need to do:
1) In address bar write “about:config” then click on “I’ll be careful, I promise!”.
2) In filter box type “network.http.keep-alive”, if Value is False double click so it become true.
3) In filter box type “network.http.version”, make sure the Value is 1.1
4) In filter box type “network.http.pipelining”, if Value is False double click so it become true.
5) If you are on proxy or you are not sure In filter box type “network.http.proxy.pipelining”, if Value is False double click so it become true.
6) In filter box type “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests”, double click and set the value to 8 (you can set it to any number between 1 and 8).
That’s it, wear racing gloves and feel the speed!
Kick-ass Firefox extensions save you time and money
Jan 13th
There are two things we hate over @ AtA : Registering for a website JUST to SEE content.That is just evil - sure you get your membership numbers up but…
We HAT
E you. We hate you we hate you we hate you. Did I say we hate you?
Most of you have heard of the website http://www.BugMeNot.com that provides free community user names and passwords for sites. This made life moderately easier but I still had to go to their website and look up the security information.
That is where this Firefox extension comes into play… if there is a user name and password for the site you are on and you right click on the text fields – BugMeNot the FireFox plug in offers instant gratification…
That sounds perverted huh?
Um how about Instant Population of the fields.
But wait, you say that’s just one thing Admin!
Yup you guessed it. This one will pop up a box ONLY if it finds a deal/coupon code for the specific page you are on! Thanks Eric and Thanks John for sending this one in. Remember send your tips and tricks to tips@askTheAdmin.com.
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