I can recommend flashblock http://flashblock.mozdev.org/, it replaces all flash movies with a
button you can press to show them. I also agree that the new beta is very bad on linux, I
didn't get through a single youtube video without crashing, however, the fullscreen mode was
less choppy during the brief period it worked :).
Posted May 16, 2008 13:13 UTC (Fri) by afalko (subscriber, #37028)
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I just tried flashblock. I can't be happier :). I used to see heavy CPU usage when using
flash, now its pretty much gone. I don't need multi core anymore :). Thanks for the tip.
That's old news
Posted May 16, 2008 16:58 UTC (Fri) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
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I can't imagine trying to use flash-based things without flashblock. There are far too many
flash things that start immediately. So I'd click a link, switch tabs, read some email, write
a bit of code, work on a puzzle a little, and come back to the first tab to find that I've
missed the whole thing, whatever it was.