“Tips to Improve Firefox 3.5 speed” plus 1 more | Blogsolute

Posted: 13 Jul 2009 11:20 AM PDT

Firefox 3.5 is a great browser that gives us huge advantages over many other browsers in the competition, but the fact is that at times can be extremely slow, especially at startup / close.

1. Optimize SQLite database

Since Firefox 3.0 was moved and started to use SQLite to store everything: our favorite records, and others. But not possible without suffering a big drop in performance. The reason? Since Firefox 3.0 can store huge amounts of data (thousands of pages of history, for example).

But like any database it is fragmented, affecting the loading time of Firefox. The good news is that databases can be upgraded and returned to the initial performance using the tweak by WebUpd8.

2. Limiting the History

This trick recommends limiting the number of days that the pages remain in history as well as the number of pages stored in the database.

Very Few people know that there are additional settings in the about:config dialog that make it possible to change the hard limit and the maximum days a website is kept in the history.

To speed up Firefox by limiting the history, Follow the procedure by gHacks.

3. Cleaning out certain folder locations

Firefox 3.5 pulls data from certain file locations for randomized security purposes. So, This trick from the home of Mozilla recommends cleaning out folders to which slows down Firefox 3.5’s data generation processes.

The procedure is different for different operating systems so refer MozillaLinks article to carry out the tweak.

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Office 2010 Beta 1 leaked download

Posted: 13 Jul 2009 10:48 AM PDT

Microsoft Office 2010 technical preview download was leaked recently and now its Beta 1 release named Microsoft Office Mondo 2010 Technical Preview is available for free download.

Office 2010 beta 1 includes Access 2010, Excel 2010, InfoPath 2010, OneNote 2010, Outlook 2010, PowerPoint 2010, Project 2010, Publisher 2010, SharePoint Designer 2010, SharePoint Workspace 2010, Visio 2010, and Word 2010.

The leaked Microsoft Office 2010 beta 1 is available in both versions namely 32-bit as well as 64-bit and is available for download on most popular torrent websites.

Some screenshots of the version are shared below to watch it out before download:

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Even though the title bar on Word 2010 says its "Technical Preview", but the About dialogue box clearly states it as Beta as can be seen in the screenshot above.

It has been observed that Office 2010 beta 1 has more bugs in comparison to previous leaked version s, I recommend not to go with the flow and wait for stable release.

Related : Microsoft Office 2010 Torrent Technical Preview leaked download.