it's the 64-bit flash plugin that's crippling firefox

[Jussi Lehtola]

On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 17:18 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   thoughts?  with that plugin installed, firefox immediately starts
> sucking up CPU even when i'm not playing anything.  it looks like
> there simply has to be a flash embedded in a displayed page for this
> to happen.

That's no news. Macromedia (now Adobe) is good at making bull***t that
eats away your CPU. Installing flashblocker should do the trick - it
only loads the flash plugin if you click on the flash item.
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Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org