Kyle D. Skrinak

It’s so simple that I occassionally forget to do this myself: set up multiple tabs, one each for the most commonly accessed functions. I do this whether I’m in Umbraco, Drupal or WordPress. For example, in WordPress, I’ll have the appropriate “Edit Page” tab open, the rendered page in the second tab, and a related plugin settings in the third. The advantage is I can let one function perform it’s update and switch to another tab while the other task completes. You obviously want to avoid collisions but if your working heavily in the admin console for this CMSs you probably know what that means anyhow.

One more speed tip: use Firefox 3.1, (NOT 3.0.x) Chrome or WebKit on Mac. Their javascript engines are significantly faster than some other browser whose name escapes me at the moment.