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Ok now I think it’s flash that’s bogging down my system, still trying to figure it out…

I was wrong! Weeks after uninstalling Adblock Plus I was still getting system unresponsiveness and firefox at 50% CPU. I uninstalled google toolbar after reading a post elsewhere and my computer seems to bee snappy again. I reinstalled Adblock Plus and it’s working great.
Too bad I miss google toolbar. My firefox search box uses google for most things, but I miss pagerank and the single word buttons that appear generated by your searches for instant finds. Anyone have another plugin for that I can use?

I love Adblock Plus, and I miss it. There was such a feeling of power when I right clicked on an ad and blocked it forever. And the pre-installed list of hideous ads were great.
But my computer became unusable. Firefox was taking up 50% CPU any time I simply refocused a window or loaded a page. Other elements of Windows stopped responding. I could hardly get any work done.
I tried deleting my pluginreg.dat file, reinstalling firefox, all sorts of things. Sometimes when watching my memory watcher, StatusbarEx, the used memory would increase, meg by meg, by about one meg a second. Finally disabling Adblock Plus solved my woes.
RIP Adblock plus!

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