March 16, 2007
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Productivity changes…
New Mouse
We got some wonderful new Logitech G5 mice in the office the other day. Among its many features is the ability to dynamically adjust the mouse speed with the little +/- buttons on top of the mouse. I mentioned before how important mouse speed is to productivity (especially with a lot of screen real estate). So every few days I’ve been bumping up my mouse speed to go a tad faster. Its a bit jarring at first, you miss clicks and stuff. But after a few hours, you get used to it, and you are moving across the screen in no time!
Firefox profiles
My Firefox has been a memory hog for some time now. I’ve followed all the articles on improving performance, but with no luck. I suspect it has to do with all the random add-ons I run in Firefox. Looking over my list of add-ons, I realized that all the most important add-ons are related to web-development; I can live without the rest. So I set up two different firefox profiles, one for surfing the web, and one for web development. This article from LifeHacker explains how. I also gave the web development profile a different theme, so I can easily distinguish the browsers.
I’ve only been using it for a few hours now, but the difference is remarkable. The web surfing profile is fast, and uses a lot less memory. However, I can still forsee a few issues coming up. The profiles aren’t easily distinguishable in the Windows taskbar. And I will have to be vigilant to keep a clean separation between the two profiles. Only time will tell if the productivity improvements are worth the tradeoff.
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I’ve been using different Firefox profiles for different purposes for a while now. I got around the taskbar issue by setting a default tab for each profile and I got into the habit of clicking back to it before switching windows. If I see gmail in the task bar, I know which profile it is. I use at least 3 profiles on a regular basis, differently themed, and it makes a huge difference to productivity.
BTW I guess you’re using the new module thing that only lucky folks get to beta test, but it was hosed up trying to get to this page. Module wouldn’t load and the link to the post from SIR errored out. Took about four tries before it worked.
you know what would be totally cool? is if they went away from ‘the mouse’ (an apple marketing term – nothing against apple), and create a non-clunky glove/slip-on with touch-sensitive features on the fingertips, so you don’t have to “hold” a mouse, just slide and tap your finger as if it were the mouse.
I’ve been thinking about doing the multiple profile thing for a while, maybe I should give that a shot.
I tried using FireFox on my laptop, and it ended up taking up way too much RAM. For that reason, I’ve stuck with IE.
multiple profiles wont work for me. Logitech makes great mice, i even have one.
wow, that’s a big improvement. good idea, monsur!
i think i’m just gonna abandon my old profile, and use this new profile until that one bogs down too… hopefully, by that time, FF will fix the memory leak or whatever causes the RAM and CPU spike!
i wonder — and if there isnt such a way then “i wish for”–if there is a way to color code/skin the different firefox browser windows you might have open at any given time. i, for one, have a total of 62 tabs open and separated into 4 different windows by category!
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