Keeping Firefox+Flash from eating your CPU

[Jonathan Ryshpan]

In a recent issue of Salon, I read:
        Luckily, there's a small add-on program for Firefox that lets
        the user prevent Flash files from running automatically when a
        page loads, and it turns Firefox into a stable, efficient
        browser.
This appeared in:
        http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/scitech/2008/09/02/D92V0RV01_tec_tech_test_google_chrome/index.html

Does anyone know what this application/applet/plugin is?  Is it
available for Linux?

Thanks - jon



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[Craig White-6]

On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 21:42 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:

> In a recent issue of Salon, I read:
>         Luckily, there's a small add-on program for Firefox that lets
>         the user prevent Flash files from running automatically when a
>         page loads, and it turns Firefox into a stable, efficient
>         browser.
> This appeared in:
>         http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/scitech/2008/09/02/D92V0RV01_tec_tech_test_google_chrome/index.html
>
> Does anyone know what this application/applet/plugin is?  Is it
> available for Linux?

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[Todd Zullinger]

Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:

> In a recent issue of Salon, I read:
>        Luckily, there's a small add-on program for Firefox that lets
>        the user prevent Flash files from running automatically when a
>        page loads, and it turns Firefox into a stable, efficient
>        browser.
> This appeared in:
>        http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/scitech/2008/09/02/D92V0RV01_tec_tech_test_google_chrome/index.html
>
> Does anyone know what this application/applet/plugin is?  Is it
> available for Linux?

They're talking about Flashblock I believe (the article even mentions
the name near the end):

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433

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what is really great is the ad block but that doesn't always allow a new entry to be added to the block list! ---------------------------------------- > Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 00:56:29 -0400 > From: tmz@... > To: fedora-list@... > Subject: Re: Keeping Firefox+Flash from eating your CPU > > Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: >> In a recent issue of Salon, I read: >> Luckily, there's a small add-on program for Firefox that lets >> the user prevent Flash files from running automatically when a >> page loads, and it turns Firefox into a stable, efficient >> browser. >> This appeared in: >> http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/scitech/2008/09/02/D92V0RV01_tec_tech_test_google_chrome/index.html >> >> Does anyone know what this application/applet/plugin is? Is it >> available for Linux? > > They're talking about Flashblock I believe (the article even mentions > the name near the end): > > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433 > > -- > Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Never do today that which will become someone else's responsibility > tomorrow. >

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[cloudbuster]

what is really great is the ad block

but  that doesn't always allow a new entry

to be added to the block list!



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> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 00:56:29 -0400
> From: tmz@...
> To: fedora-list@...
> Subject: Re: Keeping Firefox+Flash from eating your CPU
>
> Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
>> In a recent issue of Salon, I read:
>>        Luckily, there's a small add-on program for Firefox that lets
>>        the user prevent Flash files from running automatically when a
>>        page loads, and it turns Firefox into a stable, efficient
>>        browser.
>> This appeared in:
>>        http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/scitech/2008/09/02/D92V0RV01_tec_tech_test_google_chrome/index.html
>>
>> Does anyone know what this application/applet/plugin is?  Is it
>> available for Linux?
>
> They're talking about Flashblock I believe (the article even mentions
> the name near the end):
>
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433
>
> --
> Todd        OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Never do today that which will become someone else's responsibility
> tomorrow.
>

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[Cameron Simpson]

On 03Sep2008 00:35, landon kelsey <landonmkelsey@...> wrote:
| what is really great is the ad block
| but  that doesn't always allow a new entry
| to be added to the block list!

Ad block is a blacklist (you ad stuff you want blocked).
Flashblock is a whitelist (blocks all flash, you add things you will let
run).
I personally prefer the latter.

NoScript is also very useful.

BTW, in FF3 (on a Mac) the block menu item appears to be missing from
mousing over the flash (it's available in FF2). Does anyone know about
this?
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[Tim-163]

On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 00:37 -0500, landon kelsey wrote:
> what is really great is the ad block
>
> but  that doesn't always allow a new entry
>
> to be added to the block list!

To answer the question that you posed in the subject line, which is NOT
the place to write your message:  Probably because it's crap...
Seriously, Hotmail has excelled in being awful, in a plethora of ways,
for all of its life.

There's also various other mail clients/services which do poor jobs when
it comes to converting plain text mail to HTML mail, and vice versa.

Real plain text mail is the true WYSIWYG.  What you type is what you
send, not some guess at what it'll be received as.

NB:  Since someone's bound to comment on my yahoo email address, I don't
think that they're much better, just slightly.  And I'm not actually
using yahoo, it's just the address I signed up to this list with.

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[Patrick O'Callaghan-2]

On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 21:42 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:

> In a recent issue of Salon, I read:
>         Luckily, there's a small add-on program for Firefox that lets
>         the user prevent Flash files from running automatically when a
>         page loads, and it turns Firefox into a stable, efficient
>         browser.
> This appeared in:
>         http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/scitech/2008/09/02/D92V0RV01_tec_tech_test_google_chrome/index.html
>
> Does anyone know what this application/applet/plugin is?  Is it
> available for Linux?

Flashblock and Noscript are both good.

poc

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[Aaron Konstam]

On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 13:59 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 21:42 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > In a recent issue of Salon, I read:
> >         Luckily, there's a small add-on program for Firefox that lets
> >         the user prevent Flash files from running automatically when a
> >         page loads, and it turns Firefox into a stable, efficient
> >         browser.
> > This appeared in:
> >         http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/scitech/2008/09/02/D92V0RV01_tec_tech_test_google_chrome/index.html
> >
> > Does anyone know what this application/applet/plugin is?  Is it
> > available for Linux?
>
> Flashblock and Noscript are both good.
>
> poc
>

NOSCRIPT is too good. I was unable to login to the web site of my
Investment company. It took a while to realize that noscript will
prevent you from logging in to any site without your specific
authorization
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[Cameron Simpson]

On 03Sep2008 16:03, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@...> wrote:
| On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 13:59 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
| > Flashblock and Noscript are both good.
|
| NOSCRIPT is too good. I was unable to login to the web site of my
| Investment company. It took a while to realize that noscript will
| prevent you from logging in to any site without your specific
| authorization

This is a rather gross overstatement.

NoScript blocks javascript by default, and it is easy to whitelist sites you
decide to trust.

I've never had it "prevent you from logging in to any site without your
specific authorization"; it is not even clear what that means. Do you
mean form prefilling? Do you mean persistent cookies? Do you mean
javascript mediated login forms? Something else entirely? Some detail
about your problems would be informative.

Form prefilling is a security issue; it can let "onload" javascript
handlers steal your passwords from the prefilled form.

I run the "Secure Login" extension to control form prefilling and "CS
Lite" to control cookies.

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