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Lightweight web browsing as I do

edit: tiny formatting correction I usually browse the web with many instances of the graphic links2 (my own patched version) and Epiphany concurrently, depending on the complexity of the site in question. When I was on Firefox, I used flashblock to lighten the load on my rusty old processor. I did hack it up for Epiphany around the time I made the switch, but gave up on it sometime later, as the exact blocking scheme looked pretty inefficient. I.e., I could sometimes observe an embedded object loading and taking up a lot of CPU time until the blocker has hidden it from sight. I never cared to come up with Java blocking similar to NoScript on this browser. As I rarely used it anyway, I simply removed the Java plugin package from my system, and extracted the Flash plugin to a subfolder of my profile directory. A hackish script of mine deleted or recreated a symbolic link to the plugins on demand, which was basically the only course-grained way I have been controlling this up until today....