Comments from a new user: what is Distrowatch complaining about?

[Scott Beamer]

Robert P. J. Day Wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Scott Beamer wrote:
>> Unless of course you follow the instructions at the bottom of that page
>> for getting the Adobe Flash 10 X86_64 plugin. In that case you're on
>> your own for updates.
>>
>> The plus side to that is, it is native 64-bit and you don't have to
>> mess with all the "wrapper" stuff.
> 
>   all i would add to that is to install "flashblock".  without that,
> firefox for me was astonishingly slow.  after flashblock, sweetness.


Agreed. I do disable it on a number of sites, but otherwise it's a 
godsend.

Scott