OT-ish, adverts was RE: Dr. Dobbs to cease?

No, it's not that it's non-Wintel (hehe). I have problems with Flash on my laptop, especially flash intensive sites - it causes my browser (and sometimes my whole laptop) to slow to a crawl. Whilst a Pentium IIIm (@ 1GHz) is not state-of-the-art, it does everything else perfectly fine. Regards, Andrew B aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk --- On Thu, 15/1/09, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote: From: Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> Subject: Re: OT-ish, adverts was RE: Dr. Dobbs to cease? To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Date: Thursday, 15 January, 2009, 7:56 PM On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ <gordonjcp at gjcp.net> wrote: intellitxt.com ads. I have to block flash... I'm on a Mac w/Firefox, and it started crashing this week when certain flash bits were put up - I finally got control of my magic yo-yo browser by catching the pop-under opening a Flash ad, and closing the window before it could load. I was about to take my machine off-line to let the browser get to a stable state when I finally found the offender. :-P It must be "my fault" for trying to let Flash run on a non-Wintel box. :-/ It seems every few months, some update gets pushed through that causes Flash to completely hose the browser. Flash is annoying. If you try to sell me something with a Flash ad, I'll probably never see it. -ethan