I’m was really getting sick of Firefox constantly coming to a screeching hault for what seems to be no reason… I would just be sitting there and hear the fans on my computer rev up like jet turbines, while my CPU cooked at 99% — all for no reason.. I literally run 5 programs on my computer. SSH, Winamp, Photoshop, AIM, and Firefox. That’s it. I don’t need some Eleventy Core Krytonite Encased processor — because when everything is working fine my machine just sits there practically sleeping…

So, for the last year, my machine would just come to a screeching halt, until I killed FireFox, and restarted it… Loosing whatever I was working on. Every time FF would come out with a new version, I would say “This is the one!! This will fix all my troubles!!” But it only seemed to get worse.. And I didn’t want to blame FireFox, because the issue started to seem to have a pattern — It seemed to only happen when I was working on Certain sites… So I started watch closely at when it happened, and what I was doing..

Finally, after 2-3 weeks.. I noticed that every time this happened.. I was looking at something that had like 10 Flash ads/apps going crazy.. (And sadly, most of these were sites that I work on) So I decided to install a FlashBlock Plugin for FireFox..

Wow. It is unreal the difference.. FireFox is now back to the glory days of being rock solid.. Pages load faster than ever, and are 1000% less obnoxious… And if you wanna see something that is in flash — it’s only 1 click away…

I seriously recommend anyone here that uses FireFox — try FlashBlock for 1 week. Flash is the new Web Pollution.. It’s very cool — but needs to be used responsibly… I have now been running the same FireFox Process for 10 days without any crashes or lockups… Seriously, it can’t hurt to try it..