On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 00:46 +0200, Reinout van Schouwen wrote: > Hello Lee, > > On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > > > Is there a way to prevent stupid Flash ads from eating 40, 50, 100% of > > my CPU? This is a big problem as there's no easy way to stop them > > (unchecking "Play" and "Loop" don't do anything). > > Uninstalling the Flash plugin would be one approach worth to consider... > ;-) >
This has been my solution in the past but I'm getting annoyed to the point where I want to fix it or at least find out what the problem is. > > I don't have this problem on that other OS. > > Unfortunately this is a problem specific to the Linux Flashplugin. Since > it's closed source, there's nothing we can do about it. > I'm not so sure. Can't we run the flash plugin in its own thread and make it the lowest priority thread? The OS provides lots of mechanisms for managing process priority. > That said, you may want to use a Flash click-to-play approach. Read the > mail I sent in reply to Ryan's question today for instructions. > OK, I'll look into this. BTW, do you know what the status of the GPL'ed Flash plugin is? Lee _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
