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

James Holland holland.james at yahoo.co.uk
Mon May 26 23:29:52 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 21:28 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Cheers
> Al.

I use squid (& redirects) to get rid of most of these things, but I do
like the new BBC iplayer that for the moment makes an almost level
playing field for Linux to access commercial broadcasting.


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