[SLL] Laughing down Firefox today at my work...
Chuck Wolber
chuckw at quantumlinux.com
Tue Jan 8 20:13:21 PST 2008
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Flash is an animation tool. It runs things at 30 frames a second,
> non-stop. You can't really turn it off. So if you've got a page with
> flash on it, stuff is running constantly and that can eat up resources,
> as well as make things unstable.
Google for "Flashblock". It's a firefox add-on that replcaes flash with a
flash icon that you have to click on before it'll run. I turn it off when
I'm "you-tubing", but generally, it's really nice to see a page load up
with a lot of flash logos rather than dancing Godzillas hawking mortgages.
..Chuck..
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