Firefox-2

[O. Sinclair]

Nigel Ridley wrote:
> 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?
Maybe you already got the reply but I use Flashblock (that works on both 
FF2 and FF3) and you can then "whitelist" eg Youtube or others - or you 
can play the flash files you want by pressing a "play" button that 
replaces the flash. Check it out on Add-Ons