Re: [tlug] Mixi vs. The BBC

[Kyle Hasegawa <kylehase@example.com>]

 On 9/30/2010 5:03 PM, Darren Cook wrote:
> > > Ubuntu 10.04, firefox 3.6.10. While I'm listening to BBC radio (iplayer,
> > > i.e. flash), if I view certain pages on mixi it kills the radio.
> > Almost certainly the flash plugin crashing as it processes ads on the
> > pages you surf to. ...
> I wondered that too, but the flash ads on mixi didn't seem to be doing
> much unusual, and those flash ads were running fine (well, only one
> seemed to be animating). I have the iplayer going all day long, browsing
> various sites that have more than their fair share of ads, and
> everything is fine.
> Could be an ad network that only Mixi uses, I guess. Or some Flash on
> the Mixi site itself.

What about using an ad-blocker or flash-blocker to selectively enable 
only the flash elements you're using?

Kyle