Getting rid of Live Bookmarks in Firefox
I was playing around with Netstat* the other day (Does that sound geeky to you too? Nah, I didn’t think so either.), and realized that whenever I opened Firefox I was accessing tons of web sites. I looked them up and discovered that they were all the RSS feeds I had bookmarked in Firefox and used in Sage (simple feed reader).
There was no reason for them to keep loading and getting refreshed so I decided to clean them out, and here is how I did it.
Sage can display live bookmarked feeds an regular bookmarks of feeds, so since I didn’t need all of them to be live I opened up C:\Documents and Settings\MyUserNames\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\profilename.default\bookmarks.html (the parts in Bold Italics will need to be changed to match your installation) in a text editor and replaced all instances of FEEDURL with HREF. Oh, and you will want to copy that file first as a backup.
Firefox seems to load much faster and run a little more smoothly.
*Netstat is a program included on Windows and can be accessed from the command line. It displays all the systems your computer is currently (well, very recently) connected to. If you are worried that some program is contacting undesirable systems, you can verify that here.
Open a “Run” box (either from the start button or by using [Windows Key] + R), type cmd and press enter. Type netstat to run netstat or netstat ? to learn how to use it.
