Has anyone else spent 10 minutes tweaking their bookmark ribbon in Firefox? Adding a number of new projects to my portfolio of web work/explore/play brought me to an optimizing moment. While I am trying to reduce my mental tag cloud I am always looking to make my apps and working environment (software, sound, chair, temperature, monitor) simple and clean.
So here is my newly stripped down bookmark ribbon in firefox. I'd love to see how others have used various tools or variations of optimizing their browser to speed things up. Now if I could just get the dang thing to run faster… Oh wait, that might be the web… ;-)
I've shown you mine, I'd love you to take a pic of yours and send it over. [heh heh]
permalink: http://bit.ly/speed-the-web
[updated: firefox bookmark ribbon updated < 30 minutes later < 20 updates to post]
So in the world of web design there are some of us who are meticulous (ocd?) and those who are not. Often, even under crucial deadlines at 2am, I would be tweaking files [>>edit photoshop file>>exporting to gif or jpeg>>uploading to site>>previewing in 3 browsers>>repeat>>open file in photoshop>>..] a pixel at a time to get something to line up just right. Throw the 80/20 rule out the window, this was the 99/1 rule.
In a similar fashion, if I'm going to journey down a process with others to explore making browsing [any browser, any plugin, any additional tweaks] better then I have to go that last 1 pixel and get things right. While 99.9% of the readers/visitors won't notice a thing or care, I'm gonna see the 1mm ragged edge and need to fix it. Better to fix it first, and if not first then immediately upon discovering the miss. Yep, even at 5:30am when the client is arriving at 7.
So I offer my updated/tweaked/hotrodded firefox bookmark ribbon for your perusal. Try and spot the changes and guess what they mean or why I did it, OR don't! [grin]
The first 10 correct answers get a limited-edition www.wikisocial.org t-shirt. I am looking for 3 things that changed.
[One more interesting note on the 99/1 rule: I started this post at 10:20 and have now completed about 21 22 23 revisions now at 11:30 31]
