Heratech

http://blog.getfirebug.com/2010/01/19/64-bit-firefox-on-linux-crashes-wi...

Use 1.4.5 for now

http://getfirebug.com/releases/firebug/1.4/

See this article: http://lifehacker.com/5344418/make-firefox-faster-by-vacuuming-your-data...

'Firefox tip: Firefox 3.0's Awesome Bar added all kinds of features to the 'fox, but unfortunately it's also created some performance issues—for example, by upping the default history time, leading to larger, fragmented databases. This quick hack speeds things up.'

but don't do what they say, use this extension instead:

http://lifehacker.com/5347125/vacuum-places-improved-speeds-up-firefox-w...

Vacuum: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13878

Downloaded the Flash 10 plugin here: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

The install instructions were listed as:

1. Download the plugin to begin installation. A dialog box will appear asking you where to save the file.
2. Save the .tar.gz file to your desktop and wait for the file to download completely.
3. Quit your browser.
4. Remove all existing Adobe Flash Player installations from the system.
5. Unpackage the file. A directory with contains libflashplayer.so will be created.

I spent a considerable amount of time today doing windows updates. Not on multiple computers but on 1 computer! Even after manually installing Vista SP1 it still spent about 3 hours doings security updates, office updates, configuring updates, restarting, configuring updates again, failing updates and having to redownload/install manually. After a fresh install of ubuntu 8.04 it took abount 5 minutes to completely update. And unless there are changes to the kernel/modules you don't have to restart. I hate Vista!

On a side note I found a cool extension for firefox today. I had a whole load of tabs open that I wanted to email to someone. How to do this easily? Answer: http://plasser.net/copyallurls/

If the person I email has it installed aswell he can just copy and then go on paste to automatically open all the tabs I sent him.