For those that use Firefox you might notice it can be rather slow at times.  After a little research I found some common settings that can help fix the speed of how Firefox displays a website and to fix the infamous memory leak the software has.

For those on a broadband connection, in your address bar type in the following “about:config” without quotes.
Once there, filter each of the following below and change each of the settings by double clicking on them:

1) network.dns.disableIPv6 -> true
2) network.http.pipelining -> true
3) network.http.pipelining.maxrequests -> 8
4) network.http.proxy.pipelining -> true

If you would like to attempt to fix the memory leak issue go back to the main area of “about:config” and right click anywhere, select New, then Integer.
In the prompt type in the following “browser.cache.memory.capacity” without quotes. Another prompt should appear and this is where you can allocate how much memory you would like Firefox to use. The more memory you have on your system then the more memory you can allocate to Firefox. Good start would be 16M. If you need more you can always go back and add more. So in the prompt box you need to enter the numeric value in bytes so 16M would be “16384″ without quotes. Click “Ok” and you should be on your way.

For these changes to take affect try first to restart Firefox. If that does not work, I have read that for some they had to restart their computer.

Once these changes are in place you should already see a drastic change in how Firefox handles websites, especially sites that have a heavy load of content like Flash videos and what not.

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Been looking for a good favicon converter for the longest time and finally stumbled across an online converter that has been doing a really great job at converting the images. You can give it a try here.

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Flash backs of my not to distant childhood came to me last night while checking a blog I found thru digg. Transformers the movie is coming out on July 4th of this year. Growing up it was the show that was on the top of my “to watch” list on a daily basis. Ex-Producer is Spielberg and I am very excited to see how it turns out. I usually like Spielberg films but I was a bit disappointed the way “War of Worlds” turned out. There was so much hype for that file months before its release much like this one but turned out to be a flop in my eyes. Well in any case really looking forward for the film, plus its got Megan Fox and shes supposed to be a real fox.

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More power to Firefox! I made the switch from IE to FF sometime last year. At the time was really glad that I made the switch over and is also the time when I was focusing on the standards of how HTML and CSS should be used and that is the main reason for the switch. It has been a great browser and do enjoy using it and working with it. I did have some issues a few months ago where I had this major glitch when it came to downloading anything via the browser. Even small images if I were to download it, it would freeze up the entire browser. I kept digging around and I remember even getting pissed that something was wrong with FF. I kept looking and at the end it was a plug-in I had installed that had nothing to do with downloads in general that was causing my issue. Very weird but was glad to have found out it was the plug-in and not FF in general. I still had 1 issue with FF1.x and that was when it would load JAVA applets. At times it would take longer than usual to load and if it takes more then say 5 seconds it would just crash the browser. So I removed all plug-ins that I had installed since I learned my lesson with the download issue I had. Though even with them all gone no luck. I asked around and found others having the same issue. Tried to find out more but got nowhere so just put that on hold and waited till FF2 was released. Here we are now and with FF2 released I do not have that same issue I had before. Which is great! There are 2 new features, which I really liked about the new FF2. One is the Inline spell checking. That just blows my mind when I saw it in effect and was actually adding something to a forum. First I thought it was a VB feature of some sort but then tested it on other HTML text areas and it was a FF2 feature. Must say that is just an amazing feature to have built into a browser. Something I always thought a browser and email client should have. Which both FF and Thunderbird do have now. Good Stuff.

Another feature that I thought was much better with FF2 is that when opening up tabs now the X close button is on the actual tab and not all the way to the far right. Which was a little odd at first cause I’m used to PHP editors where you can close the tab you want and not have it all the way on the far right.

I’m sure there is many other things they added but these 2 have been really handy thus far. One thing I am missing is one of the plug-ins I had installed with FF1 was the IP plug-in. It would show the IP(s) of the website you are viewing which I find very handy when working online. Though I’m sure they will upgrade their plug-in shortly so no biggie.

I’m a really big fan I Firefox but do use IE daily when I’m developing cause I won’t fail to see the obvious that most the world still uses IE based browsers. Speaking off browsers I thought the name “Sea Monkey” was a really funny name for the all-in-one Internet application suite that mozilla has powering their mozilla browser.

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Working with and around computers is a dream come true for me. I spend most of my time on or around a pc, even if I’m not working. The last 2 weeks one of my computers started to have this really loud annoying hum to it. Well actually it started like 6 months ago but these last 2 weeks it came to the point that it was unbearable to even be around it. I would be in the kitchen with something on the stove and I would still hear it in the other room. Took me awhile to find out what was wrong with the computer. My first thought was the CPU fan, but I removed it and cleaned it out and the noise was still there after I put it back in place. Then I jumped to the graphic card but that didn’t seem like it was making all the noise. So I left it and another week went by till I just could not take it anymore and went ahead and got myself a CPU cooler/silencer. I never really thought they were effective in the past so thought might as well give it a try and hope for the best.

Once I got the package the install wasn’t to hard, I did have to detach the motherboard from the chassis and remove the CPU in order to get the support that needed to be placed behind the motherboard so it could keep the rather large fan in place. Once that ordeal was complete I turned my PC on and to the delight of my ears the annoying hum was gone and I’ve actually never heard a computer that quiet. Now because of it I only have that PC on and don’t turn on my other one, as it seems to be so much louder in comparison now, even though it’s the normal sound of a computer. So if anyone has an annoyingly load PC or just want to surf the net in comfort I would advice to get your hands on a CPU cooler/silencer.

I’ve added a little image below of how it looks once its installed and running. It’s even got a blue disco light, which is really cool.

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Today we completed updates on our main site at www.phpfox.com. We are still getting a new skin but I think we are going to wait to release that when we release version 2 of our software. With version 1.1 coming out in a few days we needed our site ready to fit with all the new changes that have taken in affect with this new version.

With support techniques in mind we have hired more support staff and developers to ensure our clients get the support they deserve with our software. You can read about our company and check out our full team here.

Aksana Kryshtopa is our new Project Manager leading our new team of developers. Plus a team of developers needs a good support team and Julia Nemkova our new Support Leader will make sure of that.

Our support coverage over the last 2 months has grown with today giving clients the opportunity to get in contact with us or get support via Phone, Live chat, Ticket/Email, Forum and Fax where needed. Our main goal now is to provide top class support and I believe over the next months it will show. Our latest addition of support is our live chat, which you will find if you browse our site or visit our support area.

We also want to be assured that all our clients are happy with our company and our products so we also have updated our refund policy with a 30 day “no questions asked” money back guarantee! Meaning there is no hidden message with this policy, if you are unhappy at all within the first 30 days you get your money back. For more information you can check our new policy here.

We have also added your testimonials to our site where we can share with others what you think about our software and company. If you haven’t already left your thoughts about our company or product please take a moment to check this page.

Your security and privacy as clients or potential clients is important to us. So we have taken the extra step to make sure our site is safe and secure by letting www.hackersafe.com perform tests daily to ensure us and our surfers that our site and server is hack proof. For more details simply browse our site and look at the bottom for the hackersafe logo and click on that for verification.

We still have a few updates to add to our site over the next few days but will have those I feel by the end of this week.

Thanks again to all the clients how has chosen phpFoX to help power your communities.

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2 weeks of not having the Internet was a real bust. Took my ISP a while to find out what was wrong so they finally just sent me a new modem a Walla I was back online. Wish they had done that earlier.

Well during my little downtime where I could not get online and check up on issues with phpFoX I saw a commercial on T.V. here for a phone that can get on MSN. So course I though I should get one of those that could get online. I actually didn’t know normal phones in this day and ago could do that and actually thought if they could they would be very pricey. So I went to 3G which is a well known phone service provider (least I think they are) and found out that you could go online with their network and actually with any of their phones. Though the course said in their lineup the Nokia E61 would be my best friend. It sure was. I was able to surf the net and well do anything I would usually do on the net with the phone. The best part was I could connect my normal PC to the Internet with the phone so I would not have to check out sites in the small screen or type with those tiny little keys.

So thanks 3G and Nokia for this great little toy and for letting me get online so I can do my job.

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