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The fix when Firefox won’t let you cancel a download

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:19:08 +0000

It’s frustrating when Firefox won’t let you cancel a download. It took me a while to find a solution, but I found one. Here’s some background. I started downloading this monster file the other day, not realizing I didn’t have enough

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Easier deep Firefox SQL optimization

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:56:44 +0000

Last year I examined ways to optimize Firefox’s SQLite databases. I’ve since found I like it better when I just put the Firefox profile in a ramdisk, but that may not be an option in all cases. If you don’t

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Deep Firefox SQL optimization

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:19:16 +0000

I was looking deeper into Firefox optimization, and I found Adventures in Firefox-places.sqlite. It’s a pretty intense analysis that goes beyond the usual simple, in-browser SQL vacuum that I’ve mentioned in the past. It was written with Mac OS X

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Making newer versions of Firefox work like a fresh install

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:10:29 +0000

About a year ago, I told you about how to vacuum Firefox’s SQLite database to make it run better. The trick still works, but they moved stuff around on us in Firefox 7. Now what you have to do is

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