A few months ago, I posted how to improve Firefox performance by defragmenting its database files executing SQLite VACUUM command. The only con was that it required a Firefox restart to execute the command.
Thanks to Mozilla’s Jeremy Orem, we have now learned it can be done from within Firefox in two short steps:
* Open the Error Console: Tools menu/Error Console
* In the Code text box paste this (it’s a single line):
Components.classes["@mozilla.org/browser/nav-history-service;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsPIPlacesDatabase).DBConnection.executeSimpleSQL(“VACUUM”);
* Press Evaluate. All the UI will freeze for a few seconds while databases are VACUUMed
Note however that the procedure optimizes the Places database only, but this is precisely where you will get the most significant performance improvements.
An official update to the original 2005 “Shift Happens” video from Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod, this June 2007 update includes new and updated statistics, thought-provoking questions and a fresh design. For more information, or to join the conversation, please visit the Shift Happens wiki.
This article I Think You’re Fat – Esquire describes the interesting insight of living with fewer intellectual filters. IMHO it’s not just about being honest with ‘others’, but as Aristotle says, “We are what we repeatedly do”. Like the author, I’m not 100% comfortable with this solution, but can see that it must be an all or nothing approach. As soon as a little bit of filtering creeps in, we find the whole house of cards reverting to the way we used to communicate. Lets face it, if you find a situation is uncomfortable, its usually because you have to adapt and change in some way to cope.
I wonder if the intellectual filters we eliminate by this approach are then replaced by a deepening emotional intelligence. Our intentions in communicating can be more clearly conveyed because there are less internal conflicts getting in the way, while our conviction/passion is more evident. Hmm…
Once upon a ti…. oh wait, thats for a make believe story. Well I’ve had several people ask about the name for this blog and so I decided to write it down. Not long before I started writing in here, I realized my digital camera needed more memory. The piddly on board memory block only carried up to 16 hi res pics at a time. Read more…
Food supplies are shrinking alarmingly around the globe, plunging the world into its greatest crisis for more than 30 years. New figures show that this year’s harvest will fail to produce enough to feed everyone on Earth, for the sixth time in the past seven years. Humanity has so far managed by eating its way through stockpiles built up in better times – but these have now fallen below the danger level.
Update (January 2009): this article is somewhat alarmist in tone, but it found it thought provoking all the same. YMMV
Well its been a while since I posted, but thats mostly because I’ve actually had some work! Mostly just installing PCs and securing them. It’s all good experience, and the pays not bad either. And I get to play with some cool hardware!
I get on pretty well with the boss. He’s been thinking up new projects for us to do so it could continue for a while . I’m happy to be doing something at last too!
Thanks for visiting my blog. Here you will see varied content, mostly this will be a glorified pastebin. If you come across something you think I should know about I'd love to hear from you.
Brandon Checketts
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