Re: Keeping Firefox+Flash from eating your CPU

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 13:59 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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
> 
NOSCRIPT is too good. I was unable to login to the web site of my
Investment company. It took a while to realize that noscript will
prevent you from logging in to any site without your specific
authorization 
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