Tech: Flashblock
A growing number of websites have been featuring Flash ads that grind my machine to a halt or hang my browser (I'm looking at you, GWOnline). I've been using Flashblock for Firefox for a couple of weeks and voila, problem solved. The nice thing is that you can click on where the Flash ought to be to re-enable that specific clip. That means it doesn't break the various places where using Flash wasn't a terrible idea.
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posted by Clamatius | Monday, February 13, 2006
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This is why I use Safari on the Mac at work, you can just uncheck all plugins. IGN's pages were bringing mine down to a crawl as well.
Flash adoption has, I think, preceeded it's curve a bit.
Ah, but that's the trick. Sometimes I want to be able to see the Flash thingy (if I do, it's usually the point of going to the page). Much easier just to click on the "go" button than to fiddle around enabling and disabling plugins.
They make me use IE at work. :-(
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