Seriously trivial thoughts
It’s ironic. The promise of running full browser-based desktop-like applications has nearly been fulfilled using web technologies like AJAX, CSS, .NET, etc. However, it has led to some unintended consequences. Browsers were just not really designed to display and run all of the dynamic pages that are so common today. I would argue that much …
With the maturing of web technologies like Flash and AJAX, web apps are suplanting the need for desktop apps more and more. PC Mag’s March issue recommended the Firefox extension FireFTP on their Best Free Software list so I decided to check it out. Well, it has all of the features I need including SFTP …
I often come across websites that I want to read later, but they don’t truly warrant adding formal bookmark. I used to use a special Temp folder for these, but it tended to grow and grow, and was a pain to maintain. Well, I chanced upon this cool Firefox extension called Read It Later (RIT). …
I’ve always had a severe memory leak issue with Firefox. FF will slowly grab more and more memory often hitting 1/2 GB with only 3-4 tabs open. I use a ton of extensions and I read a couple sites where they listed off a bunch that were known to contribute to memory leaks. For whatever …
I like opening Gmail and Google Reader in Google Chrome (GC) because it seems to manage memory much nicer. Leaving those sites open in Firefox often results in hundreds of megabytes of RAM used. The problem is I’d like to open GC links in Firefox. I’ve got too many FF extensions that make life so …
Whenever I used to save bookmarks, I always had to first look at my bookmark hierarchy and figure out the best place to put the bookmark. Then, I could go ahead and save the bookmark. I stumbled onto this cool extension called Add Bookmark Here. It adds a menu item to the top of the …