Thu Tu’s Blog

For the third time in the past few weeks, I had an issue connecting to a site and the solution turned out to be completely not obvious: I deleted the cookies for the site. I tend not to like to delete cookies since I find it more convenient for (trusted) sites to remember me. Deleting [...]

Have you ever been at a web site and wanted to find something on it but couldn’t because the site either lacked search functionality or had a useless one? Did you want a tool to help in your predicament? Here’s one that I’ve found helpful: Search Everywhere by Paul Komarek. It was developed by a [...]

Oh My Friggin Goodness. Internet Explorer makes me so mad.
Just to see how things looked in IE, I randomly checked a blog post that contained code, and one of the lines of code was obscured by a horizontal scrollbar! I compared the post in Firefox. It turned out the particular line of code was so [...]

This morning, I noticed Firefox was awfully slow. I clicked on one bookmark and had to wait for the tab to load before I could open the second bookmark. Usually, I open both bookmarks one after the other.
I opened Task Manager to check how much memory it was using. It was over 580MB! I used [...]

I’ve figured all the issues I had with upgrading to Firefox 2 and now all three of my computers are running the latest version with no problems.
The previous issues that made me revert to Firefox 1.5 after attempting the upgrade:
Lost bookmarks
It turned out what made the bookmarks disappear upon upgrade was that the Firefox process [...]

I tried for the second time to upgrade to Firefox 2.0. After reading about the lost bookmarks issue, I checked Windows Task Manager to see that Firefox was really no longer running. This time, I didn’t lose my bookmarks. Yipee! Alas, several extensions could not run in v. 2.0:

BBCode
QuickNote
DictionarySearch*

There were some other extensions but I [...]

The past few days, I’ve noticed Firefox on my work and personal computers were incredibly slow. It was worse than dial-up on an ancient computer. I didn’t correlate it with the upgrade to 1.5.0.8 until tonight.
After being frustrated with Firefox being so slow even while scrolling a page, I thought maybe downgrading to the previous [...]