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Speed Up Mozilla Firefox by optimizing the database

June 6, 2020February 3, 2014 by Marco Di Fresco

We have seen how to speed up Google Chrome by optimizing the profile database on Linux, but a similar procedure works also for Mozilla Firefox.

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Categories Browsers, Linux Tags Firefox, Linux

Speed Up Google Chrome by optimizing the database

January 2, 2014 by Marco Di Fresco

Google Chrome is already one of the fastest browsers available, but this doesn’t means that we can’t squeeze a little bit more speed out of it.
Note that the following works only on Linux.
In order to do it, we first need sqlite3.

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Categories Browsers, Linux Tags Google Chrome, Linux

Fixing "PPA name or format is correct" on Ubuntu

June 6, 2020June 4, 2012 by Marco Di Fresco

We have seen how to add an additional repository on Ubuntu and it is a very simple process, but in some rare case we may get an error message that says:
Cannot add PPA: ‘ppa:<ppa_name>’. Please check that the PPA name or format is correct.

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Categories Linux, Software Tags APT, Debian, Kubuntu, Linux, Ubuntu
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