On Nov 17, 2008, at 2:57 PM, insightinmind wrote:
> Any way to restrict cpu usage by an application like Firefox? > > Running Tiger 10.4.11. > > "Nicer"? It's a pain, because it's not really the FF applications gobbling the CPU, usually, but stuff like Flash. > myspace.com login page downloads a hog of a movie trailer and ads, > causes an 85% gobbling up of cpu ... on my poor little G4/400 > Yikes! ... well, Yikes! > > Cannot even move away from it for awhile at times. > > I complained to myspace folks ... who knows ... You can use various FF plugins to block Ads and Flash, and turn off Javascript in the prefs, etc etc etc. Flashblock <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433> Adblock <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10> -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
