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paul9290 on June 11, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Firefox is slow - troubleshooting

To prevent this from happening don't use flash with Firefox or really any browser! It can handle one or two instances of flash running at the same time but anymore watch out .. FlashCrash!

riledhel on June 11, 2011 [–]

With the latest version of Chrome and Firefox, you can just kill the plugin container and the system/browser gets snappy again in a sec.

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