Flash plug-in : CPU salesman ?!

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 11:15 +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:
> Oops - just tried it again and it is using 85-90% continuously... Wow,
> this site is flash city! Ghastly!
> 
> I don't think the problem is the plugin - I think the site's writers
> need
> a powerful application of the boot to their nether regions...
> I suggest this site for the "Flash Hall of Shame" ;-)

Ah, thanks Peter. So it's not (completely), the end of the world. 
Flash animations sites aren't inherently CPU hungry then, it's only this
particular site.
Still, the guy who made all these animations probably created them with
Macromedia's own program.
If that program is capable of producing such inefficient animations,
then I think Macromedia is still to blame...
I will e-mail the webmaster, just in case he somehow hasn't already
realised how horribly inefficient his animations are. I do'nt expect
much response though, as I have already e-mailed him to beg him to offer
streaming OGG instead of crappy proprietary Real or Windows Media
plug-ins for live listening, but he didn't even reply.

> Suggestion: install the flashblock extension, and only click one at a
> time!

Sounds cool. So you mean, flash would be disabled by default whenever I
visit a web site, and I can just click the ones I do want to see ?
That's great (short of eradicating flash from the planet).
But I don't see this plug-in for epiphany (I only see "Ad-blocker"). 
Is it a firefox only plug-in ? :-(

--
Vince