What makes firefox better than IE

eBay is mostly ads. I don't have issues when using AdBlock plus. Google Toolbar is actually closing the windows from opening, rather than "blocking" them. AdBlockPlus blocks scripts, such as popup code and harmful junk from a list of websites, from loading at all.

The TeaTimer in Spybot only prevents changes to the registry, such as startup items. It's the "Immunize" function in Spybot that's a little more on target; it adds known harmful websites to your Hosts file. For example, if I visited "viruswebsite.com" Spybot adds this entry to visit the "wrong" IP address and not the official website, therefor "protecting" your computer.

It's really a halfass way of doing things, especially since multiple programs can write to or overwrite the Hosts file. Also since the Hosts file is really a text file, there is a limit the size of that file, though I'm not sure if Spybot's Immunize function has gotten that many sites listed yet or not...

So to answer your question, you're probably better off with AdBlockPlus and removing Google Toolbar, since the Google search engine is already built into Firefox.

 

Ah, Varnull, great to see you here. Though I generally do not agree with your open source and anti-MS views, you are 100% correct in your assessment of Internet Explorer. Though it's true that IE is a target for crapware, it's because of bs like ActiveX that allows the crapware to get on your system in the first place. IE causes me headaches as a PC tech and website designer.

As a PC tech, Antivirus 2009 spyware is popping up on machines everywhere, even here at my work, where our network uses McAfee Enterprise (not the greatest) combined with a high end hardware firewall. People ask me "How does this happen?" Though it may be caused by the end user, how exactly do they Google Search for a webpage and then get this crapware slipping in the backdoor? Not exactly something I've seen happen with FF... or a Mac or Linux system either. It's nerve racking, but keeps business steady!

As a website designer, IE has always made it difficult to make sites compliant with multiple browsers. I remember first starting with CSS and how it was a pain trying to get it to look the same in Netscape Navigator and IE. Eventually Netscape gave way to the IE monster, and I only had to worry about IE for a few years. Fast forward to present day, and we're at again! Trying to get anything to work the same way in FF/Opera/Safari/Chrome and then IE, is usually a headache. It took MS until the IE7 release to implement rendering for PNG transparency. Where the hell have they been all these years? I can make this awesome visual website, and have it look like complete trash in IE. Guess what? That makes me have to work harder, longer and waste more time trying to get it the way I want (or the client wants!) In the end, time equals money, and do you think MS is going to pickup the slack? Nope.

Everyone do yourself a favor and ignore IE.