[CentOS] Cent OS 6 freezing up

Craig White craig.white at ttiltd.com
Fri Aug 26 23:38:48 UTC 2011


On Aug 26, 2011, at 4:33 PM, ken wrote:

> 
> On 08/26/2011 02:35 PM Always Learning wrote:
>> On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 19:31 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote:
>> 
>>> Is this some sort of bug in the flashplugin?
>> 
>> The Internet is littered with news of Flash bugs. HTML 5 offers the same
>> facilities except it does not hide information on your hard disk like
>> Flash does.
>> 
>> Paul.
> 
> Thanks for the news.  I don't pick all the latest very often.
> 
> Even back when I was running 5.5, I'd get those hangs/freezes.  I went
> into FF's Preferences (I think) and disabled flash.  Most of the
> problems went away.
> 
> One site I went to every day had flash stuff all over it.  When I
> disabled the plugin, in the places where formerly there were
> "eye-grabbing" advertisements there was no just code.  After a few weeks
> they must have noticed, because the code was replaced by more or less
> static images.  So maybe advertisers notice when people turn off the
> flash crap.  And maybe that will make adobe eventually get their act
> together.  Hope so... I kind of like some of the videos.
----
you can use flash block plugin on FF which allows you to simply click on the flash objects you're interested in and let the rest just show placeholders

Craig


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