If you’ve ever thought to yourself, Why is my browser so slow?, then this post may shed some light on that. More often than not, when I come across a slow website, the problem ends up being Adobe Flash content. The site is either using Flash to deliver all or a portion of their content. It could be a video, advertisement, drop down lists, really any type of control on the page may be a Flash control. The by-product of that bit of Flash is a really slow website.
Flash is such a problem for computer performance that Apple completely left off support on their mobile products, iPhones and iPod Touches and the iPad and all those products are the better for it. What’s left is a fast web full of quick loading pages. In fact, many of competing products, like those running Android, enable flash and have had numerous performance and stability problems because of it.
If you’d like to get rid of looking at Flash, and you should, check out these solutions for the major browsers:
