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



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