Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs

Re:Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome ar... by 43081j on Saturday December 27, 2014 @06:00PM (#8804294)

Just enable click-to-play in chrome, on media plugins. Sound only ever really auto-plays from flash ads and such (though these days its possible with HTML5 and this likely won't stop such audio/video). Its an extra click and can make some sites a bit more difficult (e.g. beatport, tries to hide its flash so you cant click it to enable it), but it works for me.

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Re:Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome ar... by rewqfdsa on Saturday December 27, 2014 @09:19PM (#8804893)

Click-to-play on plugins often breaks sites that use Flash ads as overlays. The ads often have the "close this ad" in the Flash code itself, making it impossible to kill the ad layer without activating the plugin. (In my more cynical moments, I wonder whether this behavior is by design.)

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Re:Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome ar... by panzi on Saturday December 27, 2014 @11:04PM (#8805139)

> making it impossible to kill the ad layer

Use the context menu. There is an option to "hide" (delete) the ad there.

Another option is this bookmarklet (only works if the element that should be deleted isn't in an iframe):

    javascript:(function(){var e=document.body.style.cursor;document.body.style.cursor="crosshair";var t=document.createElement("div");var n="border:1px solid #3280FF;background-color:rgba(50,128,255,0.5);position:absolute;z-index:2147483647;display:none;";var r="pointer-events:none;";var i="transition:width 60ms,height 60ms,left 60ms,top 60ms;";n+=r+"-webkit-"+r+"-moz-"+r;n+=i+"-webkit-"+i+"-moz-"+i;t.setAttribute("style",n);document.body.appendChild(t);var s=null;var o=function(e){var n=e.target;if(n!==s&&n.parentNode){var r=n.getBoundingClientRect();var i=document.documentElement;var o=document.body;var u=i.clientTop||o.clientTop||0;var a=i.clientLeft||o.clientLeft||0;var f=window.pageYOffset||i.scrollTop||o.scrollTop;var l=window.pageXOffset||i.scrollLeft||o.scrollLeft;var c=l-a+r.left-1;var h=f-u+r.top-1;t.style.display="block";t.style.left=c+"px";t.style.top=h+"px";t.style.width=r.width+"px";t.style.height=r.height+"px";s=n}};var u=function(n){document.body.style.cursor=e;if(n.target.parentNode)n.target.parentNode.removeChild(n.target);if(t.parentNode)t.parentNode.removeChild(t);window.removeEventListener("click",u,false);window.removeEventListener("mouseover",o,false);n.stopPropagation();n.preventDefault()};window.addEventListener("mouseover",o,false);window.addEventListener("click",u,false)})();void(0)

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Re:Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome ar... by acdha on Sunday December 28, 2014 @07:23AM (#8806109)

At least the Chrome implementation has a little X in the upper right corner which you can use to delete the Flash object without ever activating the plugin.

Personally, I just don't have Flash enabled at all – it's a security win and I haven't heard my laptop's fans while browsing in ages.

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Re:Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome ar... by chii on Saturday December 27, 2014 @10:52PM (#8805104)

in which case, i use the inspector and delete the html element containing the ad overlays.

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Re:Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome ar... by pbreit on Saturday December 27, 2014 @06:09PM (#8804330)

Yep, should be able to disable autoplay via browser setting.

http://www.addictivetips.com/web/stop-auto-play-in-chrome-fi...

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