On Sat, 7 Feb 2015 21:08, Anton Aylward
On 02/07/2015 03:17 AM, John Andersen wrote:
On 2/6/2015 9:53 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
Earlier today my wife received a post giving her an URL to some video on YouTube. I thought Google announced the end of Flash on YouTube, and it was all going to be html5. http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/27/youtube-ditches-flash-for-html5-video-by-d...
Chrome or Chromium should play it.
It seems to me that some popular sites such as eBay are still very 'flash' oriented. Last week I was searching for some items and opened a pile of tabs as I worked though the search list. The vendor(s) had a flash video in them. After half a dozen my machine was crippled: 'w' showed a load factor creeping up to five point something and growing. I restarted the machine with the little CPU monitor in the KDE bottom panel, I had it set to show all 4 CPU cores just in case FF was only using one. No, all were being used and all were up there over 50%, sometime higher.
Now that flash is 'disabled' I can do the same and no such overload happens.
It makes me wonder about many things, the efficiency of embedded videos, the efficiency of flash, the value of all the embedded videos and animation since some of them were simply rolling text. There's a bit of "just because you can doesn't mean you should" advice that the site/page designers should take!
is there a way to turn flash off on a site by site basis? What other options apart from simply removing it?
Ever heard of the FF add-on "Flash Block" ? There are two: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/flash-block/ https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/flashblock/ Please read the reviews before installing, both seem to be a mixed bag. Maybe some others are more what you search: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/flash-control/ Personally, I'm using Noscript + Adblock Plus, more work, but also more control. - Yamaban. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org