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Speed up Firefox browser by managing tabs with BarTab Add-on

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 07:59 AM PST

Having tabs open in a browser can pretty much slow it down and bloggers and developers often have 10 to 15 tabs open on their browser. At work developers often use Firefox browser for IDE development work and they lose tally of how many tabs are open with the browser.

I wrote a few months ago about speeding up Firefox with SmarterFox add-on, as lately Firefox does have the issue of too many addons and toolbars which slows down the browser.

One of the main fears of any person having to restart Firefox is the dread you face waiting for all tabs to open and restart. I have started using Firefox add-on called Bar Tab. It is like a tab manager and helps speed up your Firefox browser.

About BarTab add-on with Firefox

This allowed me to set a time for a tab to be put on Bar Tab after a specific time. Right clicking on the tab also gave me the option of putting a particular tab into Bar Tab.
Bar Tab works on the concept that every tab on Firefox browser puts a load on your Firefox browser. So when a browser restarts all the tabs need to refresh.
This is not really needed for instance if I am using a few tabs and not touching 4-5 tabs they can be closed. Most times we forget to close them. This is where a timer can be set for putting it on Bar Tab automatically and when we restart the browser it only loads up the tabs that were not in Bar Tab.

It also hides or makes the tabs not being used inactive or simulates it being closed. This helps you still refer to it with a simple click but does not hog memory. I can say that it sort of converts a tab in a temporary bookmark for your Firefox browser.

Install BarTab add-on with Firefox and try it out.

I would like to read your opinions on BarTab add-on, so do keep dropping in those comments.

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Google is God- Or Is It ?

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 01:02 AM PST

Google has touched our lives in ways no one could have dreamt. Be it latest news you want to read (Google news), looking for some good pics for your presentation (Google images), or looking for directions to a new place (Google maps), Google is there to help you out every time. All this had made a strong group of Google worshippers. Lately I came across an article that shows how strong Google's fan following has become that people are comparing it to God!

The article at "The Church of Google" (read the whole article here) cites some solid reasons for comparing Google to God. One of the reasons given is the omnipresence of Google. Reading this particular point reminded me of a funny video on YouTube which is on the same lines- Google Toilet.

On a Serious Note…

Though amusing, the article and the video are also thought provoking. They show how much we have started relying on Google. Searching something on net has become synonymous to googling, which shows Google is rightly the Big Brother of search engines.

But comparing it to God!!

Isn't that's too much? Aren't we giving too much hype to a piece of algorithm written by two humans? Give too much power to someone and you will be crushed by that power. Already a section of people have started doubting Google's motto "Don't be Evil", because of privacy concerns, to which “Big Brother” replied: “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place."

Google was made to serve humans, not to control them, which is what we are making it do these days.

As for me, I don't believe for a second that Google can be compared to God. The moment I disconnect from internet, the so called "God" has no influence over my life. Nor has it answered all my "prayers"-there are hundreds of things I searched on Google for which I didn't get a satisfactory answer. And the latest embarrassing mistake by Google's algorithm (see image below – pointed by labnol.org) only proves that it has to cover a long way before it can even be called the God of Internet.