Tag: bloated

Remove Clutter From Firefox Menus With Menu Editor

June 12, 2007 by Jason

Sometimes one just isn’t enough. Plugins that is. Adding plugins to Firefox can be addictive, and once you start sometimes you can’t stop. After a while Firefox installations can end up getting very bloated and hard to use.

Luckily you can regain some control of your browser by installing the Menu Editor Firefox plugin. What this plugin does is allow you to remove useless or infrequently used items from the right click menu. This can be quite handy as a number of plugins have a nasty habit of adding commands to the contextual menu, which can mean that the right-click menu can get quite massive. Read More»

Speed-up log-in tremendously

June 04, 2007 by Jason

If like me you’ve tried everything else and your log-in and log-off to XP is still tremendously slow then you might try this little trick. First, if there are any other users on your computer see if they have a similarly long log-in. If they don’t the problem might be your roaming profile, which is a folder where XP stores your settings you can access them from anywhere in the network. Since these profiles can get really bloated(as in my case) and are not really necessary unless you log-in from different computers in a large network, you should disable it. Here’s how: Read More»

50 Web Usability Tips

May 21, 2007 by Jason

Web usability is something that many site owners don’t pay enough attention to, even though it can be the key factor that will make your users come back over and over again.
Maki over at DoshDosh has spent a considerable amount of time compiling a list of 50 web usability tips, which he’s even taken the time to categorize. The post also has a list of additional references so that readers can really through themselves into the topic.
Some of the tips I found most interesting were: Read More»