Firefox Plugins Can Help Conserve Power

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Researchers at SecTheory have come up with an interesting observation - they say that Firefox plug-ins like NoScript and Adblock Plus help in conserving power.

According to the study, website elements that seem to consume maximum power even after the page has loaded are the Flash animations and AJAX. The least "green" technology are the Flash banner ads that animate in a cycle thus drawing power.

Read full : *www.labnol.org/software/browsers/use-adblock-conserve-power/5759/

Isn't open source great?

ABP helps to conserve power ?!?! interesting..

whatever the amount of power it conserves, it certainly helps to keep those friggin ads out... thats all i need

lol

Can it be? Can it.

^^ what ??? saving power??? who cares

^^Seems you have a 24x7 power connection or don't travel with laptop

dont have a 24x7 power connection...nor do i have a lappy..

but i dont think the power saved by those mentioned would even be noticeable on a lappy...

Well Adblock is cool
but if 100% of the ads are blocked to all the users. 99.9% of the websites will he shut down.
then don't be surprised, Google will close down, and thus your ability to find something useful on the internet.