2008/04/18

Falling Back to Opera - Central Ad Filtering with Privoxy 2.

Not surprisingly I use specific websites for "stress testing" browsers on my low end pc. A good pick is ESPN. Every new element, especially flash and heavy ajax loaded content eat my cpu. It is almost always on 100% when hitting a web page.

This is not OK. So I've chosen Safari as primary browser for everyday life accompanied with a proxy that filters out web junk.

Still not good enough!

Decided to fall back to Opera. Can't wait for the stable FF3.

:sad:

2 comments:

Dead_Cabbit said...

Welcome to the "we wait for the ff3, better be it the messiah" club. I'm really annoyed by the fact, that even the biggest sites are filled with webjunk: autoplaying videos, flash banners, noisy ads, embedded mediaplayers, animated gifs, gazillions of cross domain javascripts, javascript errors, polluted namespaces, sloppy popup-handling and usability problems :(((

Janos Hardi said...

Let me add that this is only true in the Windows and maybe in the Linux universe. On my wifeys MacBook installed a very good filter/blocker for Safari. In the Apple world you can feel yourself safe just like under any well configured *nix, plus you got the fastest browser on Earth. It would be great if people at webkit development create a good port of Safari for Linux systems. I suppose hard core gnu people would shout the world with "fuck Safari, its non-free..." I do believe in free software but hell I need a good browser!