[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu unusably slow

[Gareth France]

On 06/02/13 22:59, Paul Sladen wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Feb 2013, Gareth France wrote:
>> www.cliftonts.co.uk/system1.png
>> www.cliftonts.co.uk/system2.png
> 'plugin-container' 100% That's the flash player; something flash on a
> website has probably gone AWOL.  Various streaming sites still use
> flash-based media-players and one of these probably has suboptimal
> programming.  Either that or a flash-based advert.
>
> Killing 'plugin-container', or closing and restarting Firefox may help
> considerably.
>
> 	-Paul
>
I have thought for a while now that selected websites seem to bring this 
machine to it's knees. But why is this brand new machine so easily 
affected when my antique one would happily run 5 tabs in firefox, music 
and video in vlc and thunderbird without breaking a sweat?