What I’m Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my latest delicious links, from October 6th through October 14th:

Status Address Bar :: Add-ons for Firefox –

A handy FF plugin that makes the status bar (at the bottom of the browser window) obsolete. Simply displays a link URL in the location bar rather [...]

What I’m Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my latest delicious links, from September 25th through September 26th:

Indexing Firefox 3.0 Bookmarks with Quicksilver – HackCollege – Student-Powered Lifehacking –

I guess this is what happens when you are utterly addicted to a dead software project. You have to keep hacking to keep using.

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What I'm Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my latest delicious links, from August 31st through September 4th:helvetireader

Helvetireader –

Do you love Helvetica? I mean, how does one love a type-face. Helvetica isn’t about the font really, it’s about an aesthetic. [...]

What I’m Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my latest delicious links, from July 10th through July 17th:

Ana Benaroya _Illustration_Design_Typography –

a delicious menagerie of beautiful hand-drawn illustrations and type. Look at all the personality in these. An artist with a voice, i like that.

beautiful fonts with @font-face at hacks.mozilla.org – [...]

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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Recent Firefox 3 updates

The office network has recently been updated to use Firefox 3 as the default browser.  FF3 makes many great improvements in speed and internet security.  On the whole, you shouldn’t have to do anything different, just enjoy the awesome new location bar and slick interface.  One new feature that may pose as a snag [...]