Script to Kill and Restart Non-responding Firefox Automatically

March 28th, 2009 I am sure even if you use Fedora or CentOS, you have had fair share of irritation caused by system hangs. Of course no one can doubt Microsoft Windows' supremacy in this event but still, any kind of system hang interrupt our whole process of working and thinking in a big way.

August 10th, 2008 nginx [engine x] is a high quality, light footprint (much ligher than Apache HTTPD), high performance HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev. nginx is distributed under BSD license unlike its competitor Lighttpd.

July 15th, 2007 Firefox has the annoying habit of popping up an error message after 5 seconds (10 seconds for Firefox 2.x) when running Javascript code. This causes lots of irritation because a) some script genuinely need more than the default time, b) the error message pops up repeatedly after every 5-10 seconds thereby severely ruining your browsing experience and c) the strangely worded warning where Cancel is what allows you to continue responds very sluggishly and looks like hanging even on my Core 2 Duo machine.

June 18th, 2006 This is a simple guide to making friends (as many million as you like) on MySpace automatically (otherwise where is the fun?). Ensure you have perl available on your system.

December 16th, 2005 Firefox has its own share of troubles. If I happen to open few sites with Flash advertisements on them and leave it open for some time, Firefox gobbles up most of the memory and becomes dog-slow.

September 14th, 2008 One of the common challenges bash script writers face when writing a script which references files in the same directory (or its sub-directories) as the script file. As the script can be called from anywhere, you cannot use the current directory to refer to the files.

March 28th, 2009 Installed a new software in Windows - need a restart? Your Windows is acting slow and you want to go for a restart. So what are you waiting for? just click on the button to restart the machine...

August 26th, 2008 Every one in my company knows about pkill, an obscure Linux command because we use Firefox (we are 100% Linux based) as the default browser. What is the relation, you ask? The answer is simple.

May 22nd, 2009 Everytime you attach an add-on to your Firefox you need to restart the browser. It's a sheer waste of time and a test of your patience.

March 25th, 2005 I often work with multiple webpages open at the same time. I have tendency to use online documentations and work mostly on browser based applications.

May 14th, 2007 SessionSaver is a popular Firefox extension which allows you to seamlessly save existing session and restore it automatically at startup. You can also name the session and retrieve them anytime in future.

June 30th, 2005 Assorted List of Productivity Boosters for Firefox users (without plugins). These tips are for everyone.

February 7th, 2007 As a javascript developer using onload often you will find that other script authors too love to use onload. Unfortunately onload accepts a function name and your reassigning will prevent others from using onload.

June 24th, 2008 My most favorite Firefox 3 feature is the automatically generated Most Visited folder on Bookmarks tab. It allows me to quickly browse my important work related websites.

May 12th, 2005 A discussion on the update and how to install it.