[PLUG] websites that seem to take over the machine

[King Beowulf]

On Tuesday, October 6, 2015, Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:

> Twice today, websites I have visited have appeared to take over

...

>
> The symptoms were much hard disk activity, very slow response to moving
> the mouse, and very slow response to mouse button clicks.
>
> The first time I manually shut down the machine. The second time I
> waited until the mouse click got through and shut down Firefox.
>
>
To regain control over web surfing so that sites don't bog down your system:

1. turn off flash plugin. activate only when needed
2. disable scripts, or use extension such ad noscript to control which
scripts you allow to run
3. use an ad blocker to help decide which afs get through and which don't

-ed


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