[Gllug] Do modern webpages kill older laptops/PCs?

[Caroline Ford]

2008/5/26 M.Blackmore <mblackmore at oxlug.org>:
> 2 years ago I purchased a pair of Inspiron 8200 laptops second hand - 768mb
> ram, 2ghz P4, and a 16mb nvidia card.
>
> Under Ubuntu 6.06 (transmuted into Mint Linux 'cos they put in all the
> multimedia stuff) these would happily run Evolution with LOTS of stuff on an
> imap server and local files, and Firefox whatever version it was then, with
> often up to 20 windows open (I'm a lazy sod who hates bookmarks).
>
> Now they are unuseable with more than 3 or so web pages open.
>
> Web pages seem to be so loaded up with flash this and python or perl that
> and dancing pictures of adroidal sheep etc. nowadays - is it this that is
> killing the laptop? I would have thought 2ghz of processor power was quite
> enough for most things "ordinary" non power users need, thanks, and the ram
> memory isn't saturated ... so that leaves the 16mb video card as the
> bottleneck? Oui or non?

Use flashblock, a Firefox plugin. Linux flash player can cause
computer freezes, and most flash is useless.

Caroline
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