I had been facing a lot of issues lately with Firefox when I've multiple FF windows and tabs open. Usually I'd have atleast 4 FF windows: Markets, Code/Tech Search, Reader/Blogs, Misc opened at my Desktop, each having half a dozen tabs.
With my belief that FF is less buggy (or so you'd say I'm biased towards open source browsers) and has less mem leaks than it's in-famous counterpart IE... I've been living pretty happily with this browser for some time until recently when I started facing heavy memory usage issues (maybe it's normal but I still wanted to squeeze it down when FF is resting at the task bar). Googled out one such solution:
Courtesy: This web-link
Steps:
Note: Just check your FF memory usage from task-manager for the no. of win/tabs open(firefox.exe)
1) On the website url toolbar type about:config
2) A page full of words will show up. Right-click anywhere and choose New -> Boolean
3) For the name input type "config.trim_on_minimize"
4) Select True
5) Restart FireFox.
6) Ctrl + alt + del (this opens your task manager)
7) Go to process and choose your Firefox process (usually called firefox.exe)
8) Look at the Memory Usage Column (average is 20,000-40,000, for me it was 100,000 for two windows having 2 tabs each, other things could also account for heavy mem usage; one being lot of script based, data-intensive, client-side calc, auto-refresh websites)
9) Now minimise firefox and you will see the memory usage to be less than 10,000 (for me it came down to 45,000).
Normally, the memory usage is bound to go down for most apps with Win-key+D option when you put everything un-used back into the task bar. But, if things still doesn't go better with FF, I believe this tweak is for us to use.
Just a follow-up: To have more such tweaks done in FF do visit this link
Friday, February 8, 2008
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Just got hooked on to blogging? Register your URL to search engines for free!
And this isn't just it... There's a significant lot more we need to do when it comes to getting attention in this wide world of blogs (over a million blog-posts happening everyday)
Being a novice blogger myself, I won't cover all that you need to seek attention for your blog. Surely though, you can at least make the search engines to throw-up your blog URLs when a relevant keyword is searched for.
Here's what we can do:
1) Add your URL to Google using at: http://www.google.com/addurl/
Most of the search results of smaller/niche search engines are fed by crawlers/bots from Google.
So, adding your blog's URL to Google can not only make them appear in Google's search results (localized country wise) but also in AOL, Euroseek, Netscape and Earthlink.
And that's not it. Google helps you in getting more specific information about your website that can help your attention seeking efforts and tell you about page-hits, links to your page, broken-links, statistics etc. So, after registering the URL at Google, you're re-directed to Google Webmaster Tools.
Google Crawler does some sample searches for your site and provides indexing stats. Lists out various posts on your website, provides information on webpages that link to your website and a list of sites related to your site's name/content.
There are other options like Crawl stats and subscriber stats that offer information on page-hits and other link statistics.
Check-out a whole bunch of tools offered by Google to enhance your blog's visibility and hits on the internet, increase traffic to your site and connect you with interested visitors.
2) Yahoo! offers free website submission as well as paid Y!directory option. Do it at http://submit.search.yahoo.com/
3) MSN/Live is the third most popular search engine. The link to add your website in it's search index is http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx
4) Gigablast: Add your website to Gigablast at: http://gigablast.com/addurl
5) Alexa: Add your website to Alexa, using: http://www.alexa.com/site/help/webmasters
6) AOL: If you are registered with Google, your site will appear in search results of AOL as well.
Almost all other search engines use the search index from one or the other above listed search engines to query and show results. So, as long as you are registered (and listed) by the major search engines listed above, you will also appear in search results of many other search engines.
So, don't just blog! Take another step and get other's to read and appreciate your blog by getting your blog searched from these commonly used search engines ;)
Being a novice blogger myself, I won't cover all that you need to seek attention for your blog. Surely though, you can at least make the search engines to throw-up your blog URLs when a relevant keyword is searched for.
Here's what we can do:
1) Add your URL to Google using at: http://www.google.com/addurl/
Most of the search results of smaller/niche search engines are fed by crawlers/bots from Google.
So, adding your blog's URL to Google can not only make them appear in Google's search results (localized country wise) but also in AOL, Euroseek, Netscape and Earthlink.
And that's not it. Google helps you in getting more specific information about your website that can help your attention seeking efforts and tell you about page-hits, links to your page, broken-links, statistics etc. So, after registering the URL at Google, you're re-directed to Google Webmaster Tools.
Google Crawler does some sample searches for your site and provides indexing stats. Lists out various posts on your website, provides information on webpages that link to your website and a list of sites related to your site's name/content.
There are other options like Crawl stats and subscriber stats that offer information on page-hits and other link statistics.
Check-out a whole bunch of tools offered by Google to enhance your blog's visibility and hits on the internet, increase traffic to your site and connect you with interested visitors.
2) Yahoo! offers free website submission as well as paid Y!directory option. Do it at http://submit.search.yahoo.com/
3) MSN/Live is the third most popular search engine. The link to add your website in it's search index is http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx
4) Gigablast: Add your website to Gigablast at: http://gigablast.com/addurl
5) Alexa: Add your website to Alexa, using: http://www.alexa.com/site/help/webmasters
6) AOL: If you are registered with Google, your site will appear in search results of AOL as well.
Almost all other search engines use the search index from one or the other above listed search engines to query and show results. So, as long as you are registered (and listed) by the major search engines listed above, you will also appear in search results of many other search engines.
So, don't just blog! Take another step and get other's to read and appreciate your blog by getting your blog searched from these commonly used search engines ;)
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