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

[Robin Laing]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Jussi Lehtola wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> yes!  that did the trick.  i'm surprised no one had suggested that
> until now, since the topic of flash had come up more than once.  yee
> ha.  i have response.
> 
> rday
> --

It has been suggested in the past, probably not to a recent thread though.


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Robin Laing