OS haX: Undocumented, inaccessible, and incredibly useful

As enjoyable as Apple’s software is to use, they like to make us work.  Hidden below the surface of most Apple software are hundreds of undocumented little “switches” which can be turned on to enable new sooper-seekrit features.  By the same token, these switches can be disabled to [...]

More than just colors: My bash settings

bash_promptIf the title suggests to you either a party, or violence, then perhaps this post isn’t for you. If instead you are imagining a blank window filled with text, read on. If you are confused right now, but also strangely curious, you may feel free to read on.
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Temporarily “pause” all Firefox processes

ff-stopIf you browse the web like i browse the web then that means you probably have at least a dozen tabs open at any given time, and twice as many add-ons.  Now i <3 the Firefox web browser.  Hard!  But my main complaint about it is how sluggish it gets over time and with so much STUFF happening in the browser-space.  It’s borderline bloatware except that i’m the one who added a lot of the bloat to it…  Well here’s a tasty gem from commandlinefu.com that i’ve adapted into what i hope will be a very useful tool.

Here’s the post from CLFu:

$ killall -STOP -m firefox

Manually Pause/Unpause Firefox Process with POSIX-Signals.  Continue with:

$ killall -CONT -m firefox

Holds all Firefox Threads. Results in Zero CPU load.  Useful when having 100+ Tabs open and you temporarily need the power elsewhere.  Be careful – might produce RACE CONDITIONS or LOCKUPS in other processes or FF itself. matching is case sensitive.

Read on for the results and some handy aliases that make this command even better!

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