PSA: Browsing the internet with flash disabled is freaking awesome, esp. on POS cpu's

[Ns1]

flashblock FTW


Never knew how CPU hungry flash was.


WOW I HAD NO IDEA MY WORK MACHINE WAS SUCH A POS
Pentium 3.0 w/ 1gb of ram

WTF, MY VIDEO CARD AT HOME HAS MORE RAM

 

[Tristicus]

PSA: Using a computer from 1998 is stupid.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Eh, isn't Flash accelerated by the GPU these days?

 

[Ns1]

PSA: Using a computer from 1998 is stupid.

work computer brah.

 

[Linflas]

Ok so the flash uses one of my CPU's, that still leaves 3 for me

 

[xanis]

Unfortunately, Flash is so prevalent on the web that browsing without it can pretty noticeable.

 

[Tristicus]

work computer brah.

school computer brah
and it still runs fine

 

[Ns1]

school computer brah
and it still runs fine

good for you brah.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

flash used to be disabled at work but for some reason it's working again. feels good man.

 

[Ns1]

wow, no wonder my computer sucks. look at those specs!

 

[bruceb]

I have a old Dell Dimension 8200 from Dec 2001 .. P4 @ 1.8Ghz, 512MB RAM (it can take more but Rambus RAM is hard to find and costly)

 

[bignateyk]

The world would be a much better place if flash were to simply disappear overnight.

 

[PingSpike]

Unfortunately, Flash is so prevalent on the web that browsing without it can pretty noticeable.

Flashblock has an allow feature. As flash is used primarily to abuse it is much easier to selectively allow items you actually want than it is to manually turn off the millions attacking you. I run it on my crappy home connection so that I can actually load pages but even at work since it is a much more enjoyable experience.

 

[Kaervak]

Unfortunately, Flash is so prevalent on the web that browsing without it can pretty noticeable.

Not really. Opera has a built in option to turn off plugins and I've been browsing with flash disabled by default for years now. The only time I do notice anything odd is when I forget to turn it off again after viewing something that requires it, system slows to a crawl. Things would be much better without it, such a resource hog.

 

[FelixDeCat]

pffft....try browsing the web with popups enabled....thats the ticket!

 

[LTC8K6]

I have to use a Dell 2400 at work...2.8ghz Northwood and onboard graphics...but flash doesn't seem to bother it.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

I'm not sure what people are getting at.

My old computer was an AMD 64 3200, with a ATi 9600 with 512MB or RAM and it still runs WinXP beautifully.

I never have a problem with flash content or any web content at all.

 

[mmntech]

Ns1...are you Steve Jobs? Lack of Flash support on the iPad isn't an issue, it's a feature!

 

[Ns1]

I'm not sure what people are getting at.

My old computer was an AMD 64 3200, with a ATi 9600 with 512MB or RAM and it still runs WinXP beautifully.

I never have a problem with flash content or any web content at all.

running ATOT + deadline.com in the background and 3-4 excel windows + outlook slows system to a crawl

disabled flash and viola, no more crawl.

 

[DrPizza]

Blocking flash is only a little noticeable, and even then, only for a little while. Eventually as you allow sites (not temporarily allow) that you trust to use flash, then surfing the places you regularly go shows no difference. Plus, even on those sites, you can block crap like google analytics (which I'm guessing is only there to keep tabs on you.)

 

[thepd7]

flash used to be disabled at work but for some reason it's working again. feels good man.

lol

 

[Pardus]

PSA: No one cares.

 

[Ns1]

PSA: No one cares.

PSA: You cared enough.

 

[InflatableBuddha]

I would think the lack of ram would suck hardest though. My old work machine was the same specs as yours and I was constantly hitting the pagefile on the hard drive. 1GB just isn't enough for all your work programs plus a browser, antivirus and OS.

My current machine has 2GB and even on that I'm using 1.3 GB (XP)

 

[xSauronx]

flashblock FTW


Never knew how CPU hungry flash was.


WOW I HAD NO IDEA MY WORK MACHINE WAS SUCH A POS
Pentium 3.0 w/ 1gb of ram

thats practically modern. the hospital i work at has thousands of workstations, and the upgrade cycle is about 8 or 9 years long.

theyre still working on phasing out optiplex gx 260s that have 256mb or 512mb of ram and something like a p4 1.8gh or 2ghz cpu. theyre practically worthless

after that they get to start phasing out the 270s and 280s...