Per Fuzzy Logic:
I've used Firefox and IE and still prefer IE.
I tried FireFox awhile ago and went back to IE because I thought it was slower
and I didn't care for the way it handled Favorites (sealing them up in to it's
own little XML file instead of making them available to the Windows desktop like
IE does).
Just yesterday, I was complaining in another NG about some particularly
intrusive flashing ads on a site that I pay money to access.
Somebody suggested FireFox plus an add-in called "AddBlock".
Wow!... dunno how they do it, but that sucker just strips away *all* the
advertising on web pages.
For my money, this is an authentic "Killer" feature.
Two days ago I was whining about huge flashing images on this web page.
Now I'm seeing *all* web pages without even the minimal advertising that
I used to just happily ignore except for clicking on the occasional
subject of interest.
Bottom line for advertisers: they've lost one audience member - permanently -
both the "good" advertisers and the abusive ones.
If somebody figures out to apply AddBlock's functionality to IE and it catches
on, I think there's going to be a shakeout in the online advertising world -
something where the intrusiveness of ads gets cut back drastically... if only to
protect the "good" advertisers.