I'm a little put off by some of the things in it. It is a definite improvement over 7, especially with regards to tabs. New tabs don't take 10 seconds to load now, instead opting to load in less than a second.
I like what I see so far and will install it on all my Windows systems, but it's going to be hard for anyone to pull me away from Firefox as my primary browser. Even Chrome doesn't cut it. FF is fast, secure, reliable, and you just can't beat the vast sea of plugins/skins/extensions.
It is soooo slow .... without Adblock plus. I have seen the wild side of Internet again while trying IE8 today; flashing animations at every edge of the web pages. Back to Firefox, serenity now!
Actually, I have sympathy to your position. If there is a way to eliminate only the interactive, animated adds but not the decent text/image ads please post here. The empty ad frames on the web pages do not look good too. But I cannot accept to wait for aggressive ads, their bloated data transfers from/to ad servers, and their tracking cookies. Problem can be solved if you host your own text/image adds with a simple link since those are not filtered. Am I still too selfish?
The only way I'd even consider using IE8 is if there is something like Foxmarks which allows me to sync bookmarks between different PCs. I'd be lost without that one.
Firefox's extensions are just too handy for me to give up. I even have a site-specific extension for Gamefaqs that *really* helps me out in the forums there. I can't imagine going back to a browser like the one on my iPhone that doesn't have all that capability.
Actually, I have sympathy to your position. If there is a way to eliminate only the interactive, animated adds but not the decent text/image ads please post here. The empty ad frames on the web pages do not look good too. But I cannot accept to wait for aggressive ads, their bloated data transfers from/to ad servers, and their tracking cookies. Problem can be solved if you host your own text/image adds with a simple link since those are not filtered. Am I still too selfish?
I use AdBlock myself and I only disable it on sites I frequent/support. I feel comfortable with my system and honestly, strategically blocking only aggressive ads is something you have to be willing to spend time on. Are you too selfish? I think the question is more, are you willing to take the time to make AdBlocker work for you?
P.S. - I can say disabling ABP on Icrontic has never given my any problems.
I actually don't use AdBlock, I just use NoScript. NoScript stops the annoying things like popups and other scripts that really slow some sites down. I don't really bother with banner ads and the like.
NoScript also blocks some other useful things but that's when you put in exceptions.
Thrax
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I would be tempted to make it my primary browser, were I not running *nix
Firefox's extensions are just too handy for me to give up. I even have a site-specific extension for Gamefaqs that *really* helps me out in the forums there. I can't imagine going back to a browser like the one on my iPhone that doesn't have all that capability.
I use AdBlock myself and I only disable it on sites I frequent/support. I feel comfortable with my system and honestly, strategically blocking only aggressive ads is something you have to be willing to spend time on. Are you too selfish? I think the question is more, are you willing to take the time to make AdBlocker work for you?
P.S. - I can say disabling ABP on Icrontic has never given my any problems.
NoScript also blocks some other useful things but that's when you put in exceptions.