Firefox-2

[Nigel Ridley]

Nigel Ridley wrote:

[snip]

> 
> Replying to myself here:
> 
> ff3 appeared to be slow - but it wasn't. I installed ff2 and it was 'slow' like ff3 !?
> What happens is that I have several news sites in a bookmark folder and i open them all at the 
> same time ('Open All in Tabs'). Then ff (both 2 & 3) start to crawl and use up tons of cpu's and, 
> I'm using a laptop, the cpu stepping goes to maximum. Pages are non responsive at first to 
> scrolling but gets better when I start to close some of the tabs.
> 
> I have tried disabling 'Smooth Scrolling' and it's better, but not what it should be.
> This never happened with Gutsy nor Fiesty (using ff2).
> 
> If somebody want to test the sites (as a group of tabs) so that I can know whether it is a Hardy 
> problem, my laptop (Inspiron 1525) or a firefox problem, here they are:
> 
> http://www.israeltoday.co.il/
> http://www.ynetnews.com/
> http://www.jpost.com/
> http://www.debka.com/
> http://www.haaretz.com/
> http://www.wnd.com/
> http://www.israelnationalnews.com/
> 
> There does seem to be loads of Flash stuff on these websites - perhaps that is a problem?
> 
> Interesting: I just loaded http://www.ynetnews.com/ by itself (ff3), and after the page loads, if 
> I then scroll up and down a couple of times it is jumpy and the cpu stepping jumps to maximum, 
> 2001 MHz, then settles down to 800 MHz.
> Actually, just letting the page stand still, with the flashy Flash ads doing their stuff, the cpu 
> is constantly moving from 800 MHz > 2001 MHz > 800 MHz > 2001 MHz. This is a dual core laptop.
> 
> What gives?
> 
> Blessings,
> 
> Nigel
> 

I just removed 'flashplugin-nonfree', and now ff3 loads [all those websites in tabs] nice and 
quick. It is now responsive and no maximum stepping of the cpus :-)

Is there an extension that block those annoying Flash adverts, whilst still being able to view 
content on youtube?

Blessings,

Nigel

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