Shutdown or restart Ubuntu from Dash

If you want to be able to end the current session of Ubuntu or even shut down / restart your PC rapidly from Dash instead of having to click around various menu, you have to install “power-commands”.

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Speed Up Mozilla Firefox by optimizing the database

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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Speed Up Google Chrome by optimizing the database

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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