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Firefox performance improvement

Paul Rogers — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:00:00 -0400

Ran into this handy tip while wandering the web. No warranty expressed or implied :)

Firefox is set to default to a dialup connection so it will only download up to 4 things at a time, there is a way to change that IF YOU HAVE A HIGH SPEED INTERNET CONNECTION to download 30 things at a time, it's amazing the difference it makes in browser speed.

Here's How:

WARNING: This tip requires you to make changes to the way FireFox works and if not performed properly can cause performance issues.

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Tweaking your machine's settings for improved high-speed bandwidth

Paul Rogers — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:10:48 -0500

For the last few weeks, I've been running with Windows registry settings tweaked by the TCP Optimizer program. The TCPOptimizer.exe program sets a collection of apparently widely-known registry settings that 'open up the pipe' on the client side.

I'm currently running with Windows XP Professional. If you are running Vista, I can't help you. ;)

Making the Debug > Exceptions... menu option visible again in Visual Studio Team Edition

Paul Rogers — Fri, 19 May 2006 17:12:44 -0400

I was flailing around trying to find the subject menu option, and wound up finding the answer here, the essential info of which is:

Tools/Import Export Settings, Reset Settings (Don't backup if you dont want to), select general profile. You should then see the exception item on the debug menu.

Code analysis - FxCop vs. Visual Studio Team Edition

Paul Rogers — Fri, 05 May 2006 10:03:05 -0400

Overview

The external FxCop utility is used to perform code analysis. For .NET 2.0, version 1.35 is the release candidate to use for this purpose. Visual Studio 2003 can be configured to run this tool from within its IDE. However, Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers embeds a version of FxCop directly into the IDE.