Keeping Firefox+Flash from eating your CPU

[landon kelsey]

what is really great is the ad block

but  that doesn't always allow a new entry

to be added to the block list!



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> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 00:56:29 -0400
> From: tmz at pobox.com
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Keeping Firefox+Flash from eating your CPU
> 
> Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
>> In a recent issue of Salon, I read:
>>        Luckily, there's a small add-on program for Firefox that lets
>>        the user prevent Flash files from running automatically when a
>>        page loads, and it turns Firefox into a stable, efficient
>>        browser.
>> This appeared in:
>>        http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/scitech/2008/09/02/D92V0RV01_tec_tech_test_google_chrome/index.html
>> 
>> Does anyone know what this application/applet/plugin is?  Is it
>> available for Linux?
> 
> They're talking about Flashblock I believe (the article even mentions
> the name near the end):
> 
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433
> 
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