Hi, grandms Yeah, since my main interest is in YouTube vids at this point, I was hoping to avoid downloading a whole separate program for this. It seems that not all YT videos are html5, so I may start to play one in Opera (with the WebM Plus extension) and it will not play correctly. By the same token, when I open a video in FF or Comodo [Chrome] and right-click the video area, it will often give menu options for Adobe Flash Player. I suppose at this point it's a matter of waiting for YT to get everything switched over to html5 format. (Can they 'retrofit' videos for that, or will videos already made not be upgraded ?) At that time I imagine YT users won't need the Adobe player any longer and will only have YT's own player ?? Oh, well. I'll keep playing around with this.... (It's a slow start to the new year.) :-)

Slow here also, but I'm on dial-up using a MSNTV2/WebTv unit. Some days it so slow I just give up. This forum is really loaded with adds, popups and video advertisements which cause all the problems I'm sure. I do have a computer that has boardband, but I never use it for reading and visiting forums because it is strickly for my work. I just hate what the new owners have done to the Garden Web forums.......sigh

On top of checking if add-ons are the concern here, I would also point out that ram/video card may be an issue here. While I realize that if we really wanted to Ubuntu (32 bit) only really needs 128-256 mb of memory to work. However, to make it run efficiently with firefox and so forth more is needed. Accordingly, one way to increase performance would be to increase ram. Slap another 2 gigs ( I dunno if companies make 2gigs any more) in there and it should work better. Furthermore, there is also a program called zram that has done wonders with other machines ( I would try this first). Beyond that all I can really say is double check for any viruses and maybe disable IPv6 if you haven't done so already. Lastly, viruses are theoretically possible on linux based OS's just very, very unlikely. In fact it is more likely you have a virus on your windows partition that is effecting memory consumption.

I use it and find it confusing. I would enable it and if it blocks something you want to see Right Click the item and tell it to allow. It used to give me a hard time, but now I forget it is installed. It seems to work very well. I also use Flashblock which I love. It blocks all flashing, jumping ads. If you want to see them you click on the space on the screen and they appear. Love, love both these add ons. Jane