Re: Keeping Firefox+Flash from eating your CPU

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <pocallaghan gmail com>]

On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 21:42 -0700, 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?

Flashblock and Noscript are both good.

poc