Pausing plugins when not visible?

[Martin Stransky]

It looks like wonderful idea...I see that flash adds take about 80% cpu 
on some sites. But what content could be handled this way? I see that 
many of those "cpu eating" applets are adds and you can remove them by 
AddBlock (and AFAIK there should be some other "flash blocking" 
extension available).

On 03/27/2009 06:49 AM, Luke Hutchison wrote:
> Adobe Flash Player for Linux is unbearably slow once you have a lot of
> windows open containing Flash content, to the point that Firefox can become
> almost unusable.  Using nspluginwrapper seems to help a bit (because it runs
> the plugins in separate processes?) but is not a complete cure as the CPU is
> still pegged.  As an example, try opening several content-heavy myspace
> pages at once in different tabs.
>
> Is it possible to add a setting to nspluginwrapper that will simply freeze
> plugins whenever their display area is not visible on screen?
>
> That would obviously cause some sites that you want to have running in the
> background, like pandora.com, to stop working -- but maybe there could be a
> whitelist of these?
>
> This would be a strong reason for many people to start using
> nspluginwrapper, as the Web is replete with complaints of slow Flash
> performance under Linux.
>
>
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