I changed around my Conky config, and it’s something you could do forever, but it’s great because it can be as heavy or light as you want it. Recently I dropped Gnome almost all together to run Openbox (full HOWTO on this forthcoming). I found a panel that will house things like nm-applet [...]

These are some basic tweaks to speed up Firefox that have been tried and true for some time now.  I haven’t seen these collected in one place recently, so if you have Firefox and want to improve its performance, try these steps.  If you have a broadband connection (who doesn’t?), you can speed up your [...]