Good report, yes ABP is so versatile, and you can subscribe to language or geo-specific subscription lists - a good one is Rick752’s Easy Element & Easy Privacy List and dozens others and they are regularly automatically updated, the extension is highly tweakable, and when I am browsing with another browser I frighten at what I am normally not watching (banner and ad-wise, and forms, and questionnaires etc., etc.
The RequestPolicy is another one that makes it easy to just show what part of a website you want in your browser, and leave out what you do not want, and things that should not be there any longer I nuke with the YARIP add-on , just a click and gone forever…
Most users of the Fx browser haven’t even seen what it is capable of,
-= Yup…! IE8 RC1 is really great… But like before, I have this “fear” that the final version will not be as fast and might be heavier to resources than the RC1…
@chronoboi001: yes, it’s normal if you think like that, but it’s not my idea, it seems Microsoft have found the “Heavy” applications would not be user friendly, you can see the what Microsoft is doing in Winodows 7 and other new programs too… hope it be lighter in final version!!!
I do not use IE7Pro any more as it does not support IE8 very well and it looks like it is a dead application.
What I find is very effective at blocking ads and known malware sites is the use of a HOSTS file managed by HostsMan and its browser speedup proxy Hosts Server: http://www.abelhadigital.com
I use hpHosts and MVPS HOSTS files only as they are adequate for my needs.
I am likeing Vista a lot better now that I’m getting used to it but I wish I could sell my old XP Home system as that would give me a bit of additional money to play with.
Your entitled to your opinion but calling Internet Explorer Shiternet Explorer doesn’t make the product any worse or better.
Hope it’s made you feel better…
Your not out of order however, there aren’t very many shortcomings that I know of.
IE8 does a fairly good job of keeping you safe. I feel just as safe using it as I do when I use Firefox.
Most of the time, I use SRWare Iron.
Users Choice.
You know that banners can be dangerous, and you like to block certain ads, using AdBlockPlus in FF or Flock, you like to have the EasyList for ABP. Go here: http://easylist.adblockplus.org/
Together with other measurements like floppymoose, blocklists etc. you avoid a lot of places where you do not want to go in the first place,
bob3160@ SRWare’s Iron has its own adblock.ini, you find it on their site and can implement it easily inside Iron, download it here: http://www.srware.net/downloads/adblock.ini
I tried a lot of blockers, but I dare to say none of them compare to AdMuncher. it runs with any browser, is small, daily updates, no impact on browsing. although I use Opera and don’t see much pop-ups, since I use AdMuncher I forgot what an ad or a pop-up/pop-under is. I highly recommend it.
