On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 20:55:06 +0200, Thomas Overgaard
<thover@post2.tele.dk> wrote:

>
>blumf@hotspammail.com wrote :
>
>> Occasionally get an issue where a certain web site crashes FF repeatedly
>> and suddenly starts working a while later, presumably some ad on the
>> site that upsets things.
>
>I can recommend an Firefox extension named Flashblock.
>
>By default all flash is blocked and replaced by an icon, if you click
>here the flash is played, and if you rightclick you can whitelist the
>sites you use the most so you don't have to start the flash here.

Or an other really tiny Firefox extension: Plugin Manager

http://www.gozer.org/mozilla/extensions/

Loads/inloads plugins on the fly.

Quote from that page:

" Background / How it works:
Firefox can use multiple plugin paths, which commonly include
the installation (/usr/local/firefox/plugins) and a per-user
(~/.mozilla/plugins) directories. Since there is currently no
interface for (un)loading plugins, the next best thing is to simply
move the plugin out of it's respective directory (into a disabled
subdirectory) and ask Firefox to rescan for changes."

I surf with plugins disabled by default, on enable Flash when I think
its usefull.