Interesting Links for 22-1-2011

[andrewducker]

• Things Real People Don't Say About Advertising
  (tags: funny advertising marketing)
• Does email address obfuscation actually work? (with graph!)
  (tags: email spam html obfuscation)
• Apple putting tamper-proof screws on iPhone to stop you changing your own battery.
  (tags: iphone apple OhForFucksSake)
• Meteorologists identify cause of cold and warm periods during winter (like the recent cold snap)
  (tags: weather meteorology stratosphere winter)
• Daily Mail lying about a politician's expenses, to make them look bad. Can you guess which party?
  (tags: labour DailyMail uk)
• The quest for a reliable lie detector test
  (tags: brains psychology lying)
• ID cards to be scrapped at midnight tonight
  (tags: identity government uk)
• First impressions are general, further impressions are contextual
  (tags: psychology social relationships)

Comments

[andrewducker]

Two things make FF load faster for me. Firstly, cutting down on the number of addons it's loading (I found a bunch of stuff I never used), and installing BarTab, which stops it reloading all of the saved tabs on startup (they're still there, but dormant until you select them).

[marrog.livejournal.com]

I tend not to bother saving my session. Also I don't really have many add-ons, although looking at it now I appear to have like a bazillion versions of Java Console. Might remove all of them and then presumably I'll be prompted when it becomes necessary to add whichever is the right one.

[andrewducker]

Just disabled all of mine. Starting FF now takes less than 5 seconds (admittedly that was when it had been open, dunno how long a cold start would take).

[marrog.livejournal.com]

It was definitely a faster restart than usual but as you say, hard to say for sure if there's been an improvement until I've booted it from a restart.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

How'd you find all these add-ons you never used and get rid of them? Possibly I should do that...

[andrewducker]

Tools->Addons. And then go down the list clicking "disable" or "uninstall".

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Ah well, nevermind; I was wondering if there were other hidden ones I wasn't seeing, aside from the ones I've installed; but I only have about four and I do use them constantly, so c'est la vie.