On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > The limiting factor now is basically the web. Websites have become so > bloated with massive Flash animations and shoddy javascript that some of > them can bring your box to a crawl. Youtube is now the reason why I'm > trying to scrape together money for a new computer... 1.1GHz K7 with > 1.25GB RAM is just not up to the task of youtube anymore. (and Facebook > and Gmail have their bad days as well). I find myself doing this several times per day: pkill npviewer.bin It helps a lot. Mike