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

[James Holland]

On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 01:33 +0100, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
> Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 08:56:43PM +0100, Caroline Ford wrote:
> >> Use flashblock, a Firefox plugin. Linux flash player can cause
> >> computer freezes, and most flash is useless.
> >> 
> >
> > And adblockplus to hide all those adverts.
> 
> Also, whatever you do, don't install the Firebug extension unless you
> _absolutely_ have to. It slows down Firefox to a crawl, even if you
> disable it except for particular pages. You need to disable it
> completely in the extension manager to avoid the slowdown.

Yes, adblockplus really slows FF down. This is why I use squid to do the
same job.


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