How to access security programs

Thanks mycae, that solved my question.

Okay, here's the thing: I am getting slowdowns, the screen fades from
colour to black and white, I sometimes lose control of the mouse, and I get
constant messages that 'a script on the page may be busy.' The colour
problem is not in the monitor; I have swapped off twice and get the same
result.

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:01 PM, marcobra (Marco Braida) <
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This is usually a problem in the page itself, or in a plugin that you are using. Does this happen only on particular sites? If so, it could be that the javascript (the programming language they are using) is buggy and not working, or it could be that the site is using flash, and this also is not functioning properly.

Try disabling javascript and/or flash, and see if the problem goes away. If so, then you can more easily pin the blame on one of these two.

Alternately, try going to different, better written websites :)

I'm pretty green at this. Going through the package manager I noted a number
of items that had an Ubuntu logo after them. What does this mean? Flash has
crashed a few times, usually on PCH Games website. When the screen loses
colour, the extreme top and bottom lines do not; the ones that identify
applications, places, system, and the lower that shows what is currently
active. I keep getting that 'script may be busy' message.
How do I disable Flash And/or Javascript, and what might it do to my system?

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 5:04 PM, mycae <<email address hidden>
> wrote:

> Your question #134112 on firefox in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+question/134112
>
> mycae posted a new comment:
> This is usually a problem in the page itself, or in a plugin that you
> are using. Does this happen only on particular sites? If so, it could be
> that the javascript (the programming language they are using) is buggy
> and not working, or it could be that the site is using flash, and this
> also is not functioning properly.
>
> Try disabling javascript and/or flash, and see if the problem goes away.
> If so, then you can more easily pin the blame on one of these two.
>
> Alternately, try going to different, better written websites :)
>
> --
> You received this question notification because you are a direct
> subscriber of the question.
>

The grey fade out means the program has stopped responding; this is becuase whoever has written the website has made a program that does not terminate (it turns out that this cannot be absolutely auto-detected, even in theory). In that case, this will take down your browser, and you need to restart.

You can disable flash using (in firefox) tools -> add ons->plugins select flash, then disable it.

This will cause web-page rich media (videos/and many interactive programs) that require this to no longer function; however this will cause your web browser to run a lot faster on most websites, and to reduce the number of crashes.

You can install a few firefox addons to help stop javascript (there is an addon called noscript), but this will cause web page breaking (pages don't display properly and you get messages about "please enable javscript"), however you can just re-enable for that page and reload in most cases. Again, the upshot is that pages load much faster, and your browser should no longer emit warnings about broken scripts, as your browser simply ignores them.

Hmm. I found a load of shit in there: DivX browser
DivX webplayer
iTunes app detector
mplayer plugin is now gecko mediaplayer 0.9.9.2
Quick Time plug in 7.6.4
Quick Time plug in 7.6.6
Real Player 9
Shock Wave Flash
VLC multimedia
Windows media player plug in
Windows media player plug in 10
I disabled the Windows Media elements and that seems to have cleared up a
lot. What else should I disable? What should I keep?

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:38 PM, mycae <<email address hidden>
> wrote:

> Your question #134112 on firefox in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+question/134112
>
> mycae posted a new comment:
> The grey fade out means the program has stopped responding; this is
> becuase whoever has written the website has made a program that does not
> terminate (it turns out that this cannot be absolutely auto-detected,
> even in theory). In that case, this will take down your browser, and you
> need to restart.
>
> You can disable flash using (in firefox) tools -> add ons->plugins
> select flash, then disable it.
>
> This will cause web-page rich media (videos/and many interactive
> programs) that require this to no longer function; however this will
> cause your web browser to run a lot faster on most websites, and to
> reduce the number of crashes.
>
> You can install a few firefox addons to help stop javascript (there is
> an addon called noscript), but this will cause web page breaking (pages
> don't display properly and you get messages about "please enable
> javscript"), however you can just re-enable for that page and reload in
> most cases. Again, the upshot is that pages load much faster, and your
> browser should no longer emit warnings about broken scripts, as your
> browser simply ignores them.
>
> --
> You received this question notification because you are a direct
> subscriber of the question.
>

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