Category Archives: Short tips

Improving the speed of Firefox 3

How to Improve the speed of Firefox 3 :

We all know Firefox is a memory hog. To speed things up greatly, do the following:

  • Open Firefox and in the address bar type about:config.
  • Click on “I’ll be careful, I promise
  • Use the search bar above to look for network.http.pipelining and double click on it to set it’s value to True.
  • Create a new boolean value named network.http.pipelining.firstrequest and set that to True, as well.
  • Find network.http.pipelining.maxrequests, double click on it, and change its value to 8
  • Look for network.http.proxy.pipelining and set it to True.
  • Create two new integers named nglayout.initialpaint.delay and content.notify.interval, set them to 0.
  • Restart your browser.

All done. You should feel the browser is 5x more responsive than before while navigating websites.

performance comparison of web browsers

performance comparison of web browsers

The easiest way to create Retweet button in WordPress & Tweetmeme

Tweetmeme is a popular service that allow you to display “Retweet” button on your blog posts. Even if the code is easy to integrate on your single.php file, it can be very cool to create a shortcode that you can insert anywhere in your posts.
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