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    Too much Flash ADs in Hexus?

    It wasn't that noticible until I went back to my single-core machine, with just 1 single Intel flash on the top firefox averaged 59% CPU on my A63 3000+!

    With 2 Hexus tabs open it drains 99% which pretty much make firefox stop responding :S Some pages even have 2 of those flash ADs.
    I know it is good to have nice-looking flash, but it is definitely not right to use that much CPU.
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    Re: Too much Flash ADs in Hexus?

    single core opty 146 right now and it's fine for me. i got 11 hexus tabs open with the flash ads in them and this machine only has 512mb, might be your windows setup?

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    Re: Too much Flash ADs in Hexus?

    I've had this trouble when they had a Guild Wars ad with a beautiful but CPU heavy smoke effect that killed my Athlon XP system...

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    Re: Too much Flash ADs in Hexus?

    Time to upgrade?

    No - seriously show me a screenshot of the advert at fault and I will get on it straight away

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    Re: Too much Flash ADs in Hexus?

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    Really odd, my desktop will always give the Intel ADs (which lags), while my laptop always give the google and corsair ADs

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    Re: Too much Flash ADs in Hexus?

    Quote Originally Posted by DR View Post
    Time to upgrade?

    No - seriously show me a screenshot of the advert at fault and I will get on it straight away
    I'm glad you're not serious about that, some sites seem to have the idea that you should get a computer and browser to cater to them.

    My serious point (and I've raised it everytime the discussion comes up) is that flash on older macs doesn't work very well (=hot laptop=very uncomfortable lap) so I have to have flash blocked and only play flash games for a short time. It would be nice if you had a no flash option so I didn't have to block most of your ads.

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    Re: Too much Flash ADs in Hexus?

    We are working on a fall back to gif system...

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    Re: Too much Flash ADs in Hexus?

    Great. Thanks for thinking about those of us with less powerful computers.

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