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Reason of slow startup in Firefox 3.5

For security purposes on Windows Firefox 3.5 has to pull data from certain files randomly. Which could lead to slow startup in Windows. These flies involves scanning some temporary folders looking for bits normally added by OS and other applications. It also looks under the subfolders to increase its randomness where it hits the unexpected slow startup.

Workaround to solve this issue

So the main cause of the issue is that if you have many temporary files or folders it leads to slow startup. So by deleting these temporary folders and internet temporary files which is generated by Internet Explorer you can improve the startup time.

To clean temporary folders you can open these folders as follows and delete all files.

Note: Some files might be in use. So check them before deleting them.

On Windows:

C:\Documents and Settings\*user*\Local Settings\History
C:\Documents and Settings\*user*\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files
C:\Documents And Settings\*user*\Local Settings\Temp
C:\Documents And Settings\*user*\Recent

On Windows Vista / 7:

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\History
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent
%TEMP%

You can also delete Internet Temporary Folders by going through these steps:

1. Go to Control Panel.
2. Open Internet Options.
3. In the Browsing History section, press the Delete button
4. Check all the options and press Delete.
5. That should do it.

I have personally tried these steps and it gave significant improvement not only for me but for other users as well. We would have to do these steps till this bug gets fixed which should be available with Firefox 3.5.1, expected in coming few weeks.

[Source: Mozilla Links ]

Now sometime its easy to hack an account if the password recover system is only depends on birth-date and a security question like “What is your pet name?”, which can be guessed out easily if we know someone.

However things changes and email provider has to check their security vulnerability and have to fill up the loop holes. So its always a good thing to add as many password recovery options to your Google Account.

Steps to turn-on the recovery password via text message:

1. Sign in our Gmail account.
2. Select 'Change Password Recovery Options’.
3. Click on “Add a mobile phone number”
4. Select your “Country”.
5. Enter your cell phone number
6. Click “Save”.

Steps to get a new password:

Next time when you forget your password just follow these steps

1. Go at password-assistance page.
2. Enter your “Username”.
3. Click “Submit”
4. You will receive a text message with a recovery code  and a mail in the secondary email id.
5. Using the recovery code you can get a new password or by checking your secondary email and click the link which Google has sent you.

The advantage of using text message recovery is that you don't have check secondary email account or even leave the page. Just check the text message, use the recovery code and you are done. Let us know what do you think about this new password recovery option by leaving comments.

[Via: Official Gmail Blog  ]

Jokes apart, lot of people are happy with this huge move which Google has made. Gmail is not the only product which has been moved out the beta version other Google Apps has also followed it.

Google Apps out of  beta version:

1. Google Calendar
2. Google Docs
3. Google Talk
4. Gmail

If you have been using Gmail for a long time and can’t digest to loose the gray “BETA” label under Gmail logo then you bring it back from Gmail Labs: Back to Beta.

Steps to enable Back to Beta:

1. Login to Gmail.
2. Go to the following path Setting –> Labs tab and scroll down to locate “Back to Beta”.  
   
3. Select “Enable” and then click “Save Changes”.

4. You are back to beta

Coming Soon:

Google has also announced that they would be coming up with few other Google Apps features in coming months or so.

• Enhancements to Apps reliability
• Mail delegation
• Mail retention

Though the beta tag is out they would continue their journey to improve their products. Let us know what do you think about coming out of the beta version. Will you miss it or its for good.

[Source: Gmail blog ]

Few Features of Firefox 3.5  

1. Its faster- 1524 ms on Windows XP machine
2. More secure - Browse in private mode
3. Open Video – Video will play without any plug-ins
4. Location Aware Browsing – This tell websites where you’re located.
5. New Web Technologies – Downloadable Fonts, CSS Improvements, Web Worker Threads, SVG, JSON and lots more

Firefox 3.5 Demo:

If you want to try your hands on Firefox 3.5 then you can try download and use its release candidate, go ahead give it a try and share your experiences with us by leaving comments below.

[via: Mozilla]

Did Gmail increased its maximum attachment size to 25 MB from 20 MB. To cross check it I went to Gmail Help and found out that its true.

With Gmail, you can send and receive messages up to 25 megabytes (MB) in size.
Please note that you may not be able to send larger attachments to contacts who use other email services with smaller attachment limits. If your attachment bounces, you should invite them to Gmail.

So now you can share some additional files using Gmail and if your mail bounces then its time to invite that person who has a smaller attachment limits from other email services to Gmail. As Gmail is one of the best email services, share your opinion by commenting below.

It has started guys… Everyone is introducing themselves and about their blogs. This is very interesting to known that their are lot of blogger have more then one blog and people as well who want to start blogging soon after coming to BlogCampPune - 2.

Wow…we have scientist (the guy in the ponytail), students, IT professional, media professionals in the house this is one of a kind BlogCampPune

Blogger

This was covered by Tarun sharing about why people blog? What people blog about? like writing about their life, writing about blogs, technology etc. The reason behind blogging  like how to make themselves fames, to earn money, making difference etc it was all together an introduction about bloggers.

How to market about your blog? 

This session was taken by Ankesh Kothari. He shared how you can market about your blog. One thing which I agree with him was by writing a great content, making back links at places where lot of people hangout and by getting few free stuffs and selling that stuff at a very low profit and investing that money in advertising for blog and lot more. This session was good because I got  to know how can you invest without paying out of your pocket.

Blogger to Wordpress

Rahul Bansal had taken this session and this was a very interesting topic which was chosen by him, as most of us including me started blogging using www.blogspot.com and think after blogging for 1 to 2 years or more on blogspot then it is not possible to switch over Wordpress. He totally changed that set of mind, he gave a great presentation on how to transfer from blogger to Wordpress without losing your traffic and page ranks. Personally if I’ll plan to shift to Wordpress in future then would diffidently go through the article written by him - Blogger to Wordpress.

After this session I almost lost the track as their was so many session going on, that I was not able to get all the details, however it was a great learning overall and I had a great time. The best thing was that I got to meet lot of other bloggers and interact with them personally rather then sharing comments on each others blog or twitter. 

In our conversation I came to know that BarCamp will be coming soon most probably in next weekend but not sure about it till now. Incase if it gets finalize will post about its detail for sure. For getting new updates and news about it do subscribe to our feed by email subscriber.

1. I completed 100 posts on Orkut Sharing successfully.
2. Orkut Sharing has crossed 100 readers.

These could be small reasons for others but for me its an opportunity to share and give back something for the support you all have given me. This time I’ll giveaway 6 Demonoid  invitation codes to all those people who wants one.

The rules are similar as last time however this time you just need to follow only one simple rule.

• And post a comment in the comment section below saying why you really need a Demonoid invitation code.

Besides posting a comment I would also suggest you to subscribe yourself  to our feed by email subscriber for future news and update.

Each participant can post as many comments as he/she wants in order to increase chance of winning. However, each participant can only win one invite code. If the same winner is again picked for the second time, it will be ignored and will be redraw to another winner.

To be fair I’ll again use Random.org to pick 6 winners randomly who will receive an invitation code by which they can register themselves at Demonoid account.

Deadline Date: 1 July 2009, all the comments posted before or on this day will be valid. Please make sure you give a valid email address as you will be contacted by the same email id.

Orkut Sharing reserves the rights to change the terms and conditions of this giveaway at anytime without prior notice.

Announcing  the winners:

Random numbers are taken out as shown in the below snap-shot

And the winners are

1. Ketan
2. Deck
3. Ivan
4. Cosmin
5. derek
6. Anoymous (faisal.stallion)

Congratulations to all the winners, you will be contacted by email id which you have provided and the invitation code will be sent to you soon.

Orkut Sharing would like to thank you all for taking part and supporting this giveaway. People who have not won an invitation code in this giveaway don't have to worry as whenever I’ll get any more stuff to share I will surely share it with you guys because, I believe Sharing is Everything.