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SecTheory published a paper by Robert “RSnake” Hansen about Browser Power Consumption. Dan Goodin reports about it under the rather funny title Study spanks Adobe Flash for abuses of power (ehy Dan, why just Adobe? what about Microsoft and Sun?). PC World has an article as well, interviewing a Pacific Gas and Electric representative.

The green juice: you can reduce your PC’s power consumption by 25% when you browse the web using Firefox with NoScript and AdBlock Plus. Quite obvious, since JavaScript, Flash, Java, Silverlight and active content in general are major CPU-drainers, compared to static pages. By allowing them just when and where they’re needed, the way NoScript works, you do the equivalent of closing the tap when you’re brushing your teeth or turn off the light when you exit a room.

Of course it’s just a drop in the ocean, but I like to believe I’m helping Gaia a bit and enabling others to do the same :)

Update

Commenter Arthur reminded me that, even if you didn’t give a damn about environment health, as a mobile user you surely value your battery life and you’ve got yet another good reason for using NoScript. And did I mention you can use NoScript on the Fennec mobile browser now?

“Obama is young, handsome, and suntanned too.”

Silvio Berlusconi during today’s official Russia-Italy press conference in Moscow

In other news, I’m about to release first official NoScript version with Fennec support, so please wait a few hours before bombing Italy.

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You’ve done the right thing :)

History will tell that George W. Bush has been a great, very great President of the United States

Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Prime Minister, Columbus Day 2008

George, please, in November take Silvio with you.
Many thanks.

So the Hokkaido G8 has food security, climate changes and oil prices in a prominent place of its agenda.

Bush has made accountability a major theme for this year’s G8 meetings, arguing that “we need people who not only make promises, but write checks, for the sake of human rights and human dignity, and for the sake of peace.” The G8 includes Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States.

G8 leaders are expected to address an array of political, security and economic issues when they meet for three days. “We expect that they will discuss a broad range of issues, including development, Africa, food security, trade and investment policy, energy security, climate change and issues relating to the global economy, including oil prices.

Obviously, we expect the very same people who became insanely rich thanks to these “issues” ¹ to clean up their profitable mess and save the world.

We expect politicians whose career and position is entirely built upon terror to fight it.
We expect governments driven by ruthless corporate interests to regulate for a planet-sustainable economy, which may require profit margin reductions or even degrowth ².
We expect oil companies, mercenary armies, reconstruction contractors and weapon manufacturers, which rather than bribing the elected people representatives like they used to do in the past, nowadays have their executives directly placed in key government roles as an obscene parody of democracy, to shoot themselves in their feet.

Just like expecting anti-virus vendors to push technologies and approaches making our information systems really safer, or Microsoft to promote open (web) standards…

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