why is my desktop sluggish?

[Mauro Souza]

I use NoScript on Firefox, and since then I noticed a SIZABLE difference on
Firefox performance, and on system performance as well. Added AdBlockPlus
to the mix and let all the problematic ads go away forever. I enable the
ads on some sites I support (hackaday, lifehacker, slashdot, and so), and
have little to no ads on every other site.
I installed psd too (profile-sync-daemon). It copies your Firefox (and
Opera, Chrome, and others) to memory, and opens everything faster. Backs up
everything on disk every x minutes.
And, lastly, I installed e4rat (ext4 reduced access times, or something
like that), and can have a full blown Ubuntu 12.10 booting in less than 45
seconds, from power on to desktop full loaded. On a notebook powered by a
low end i5 with 2gb ram and old hard disk.

Mauro
http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521
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2013/5/11 William Muriithi <william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>

>
> > That sure is a lot of work and it would be inconvenient because I have
> > (too many!) tabs open for a reason.
> >
> > My tabs are my todo list.  Well, at least the part that involves web
> > sites.
> >
> You could bookmark them all, take the whole browser down and restart them
> all from the bookmark created earlier
> > | You can also try disabling the Flash and other plugins and
> > | see if there is something else sucking up cpu.
> >
> > I wish FireFox could assign blame for resource use.  Is there some way
> > to ask it which site or tab is eating memory or CPU?
> >
> > Thanks.
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