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In the limited category of speed, perhaps. It's only starting to catch up with firefox in terms of adblock support.

Give me a break. FF users praise AdBlock like it invented ad blocking. Long before FireFox (in the days of Netscape Navigator) there was a free addon I used for IE which did exactly what AdBlock does now (but with a less slick GUI). I can't remember the name of it now but it used to be a standard thing for many IE power users...the newer versions required paying for it (and the free one broke under Vista) so it died off. There are also many other IE AdBlock plugins like the one included in the IE7Pro addin.

I also remember Opera having add blocking support ages ago when I used it...but there was no GUI at the time for adding entries into the block list file. I wrote one in VB and it worked just fine, but I'm sure Opera has a GUI for it now.

AdBlock for FireFox simply provides a better interface than the IE and Opera versions, and was completely free when others were not. No one is benchmarking how well browsers can run the AdBlock plugin (which was written for FireFox in the first place). Please stop using it to compare them and Google search for how to block ads in other browser if you need to.

I realize this may seem like sacrilege on /. but IE8 plus an extension called IE7Pro (which despite its name works great on 8) gives Firefox a good run for its money. It's actually more secure in some important ways (sandboxing, ASLR), includes ad-blocking out of the box (set the registry key to enable InPrivate Filtering on every startup) and Flash filtering (under the Flash add-on options, delete the Use on sites: *.* then you can manually add sites when they request it) and while its JS engine is weak compared to Firefox, it works fine on 99.9 percent of the sites I've seen (Acid3 being pretty much the other 0.1%). Plus, call me weird but I actually find its Accelerators feature handy, and feel its tabbed browsing is a lot better than Firefox's.

IE7Pro ( http://ie7pro.com/ ) gives you more ad-block and flash-block options, spell checking, a download manager, user agent switching, customizable mouse gestures and keyboard shortcuts, fast proxy switching, pre-fetching options, GreaseMonkey-style user scripts, and a lot more.

Firefox still wins on JS and HTML5, but I find the advantages worth it.

Quick note: while ABP as such hasn't been ported, IE does have a number of extensions, including ad blocking. The one I use most is actually a sort of meta-extension - it includes everything from ad blocking to mouse gestures to a download manager - but it does the job really well, and is still under development (last release was a month ago). Don't be fooled by the name; it works on anything IE6 to IE8 (although some of the features won't work on 6 or are redundant on 8). http://ie7pro.com/

See here: http://www.ie7pro.com

If you don't want Active-X, disabled it.

Also IE7Pro for IE users

Another reason to avoid Internet Explorer until it gets a no script equivalent (which it never will).

http://www.ie7pro.com/

Try iepro (link). It has built in ad and flash block capabilities. I used it on IE7 before I switched to using Chrome (which has an adblock script from a 3rd party if you do some digging). It says it's compatible with IE8 but haven't used it so I can't confirm/deny.

Consider it done.

Also, Firebug is unnecessary. The Developer Tools built in aren't too bad.

I have no idea why it's not on the IEAddons site, but IE7Pro is a very useful piece of work. It's got a complete implementation of AdBlock, Greasemonkey, no NoScript though.

IExplorer has one add-in that's worth noting: IE Pro. Includes many features including an ad-blocker, a flash blocker, tab crash recovery, and in-line search borrowed from the Firefox world. And it's free.

Just noting that running IE (like, for that IE-only site you just must use) doesn't leave you completely out of luck.

I never, ever see porn ads because I've got Adblock Plus installed in FF. If she prefers IE for some weird reason then just put an ad-filtering web-proxy on your network like Junkbuster.

You could also install IE7Pro. It adds the following:

"Tabbed Browsing Management, Spell Check, Inline Search, Super Drag Drop, Crash Recovery, Proxy Switcher, Mouse Gesture, Tab History Browser, Web Accelerator, User Agent Switcher, Webpage Capturer, AD Blocker, Flash Block, Greasemonkey like User Scripts platform, User Plug-ins, MiniDM, Google sponsored search,IE Faster and many more power packed features."

http://ie7pro.com/
Works on IE8 too. Provides a lot more than Ad Blocking, but you can turn off the features you don't need.

Actually, IE has (at least a few) such add-ons as well. In fact, there's even a link to go to MS's site where such things are aggregated, and browse.

Personally, I find IE7Pro (works on other versions too, though some of the features it provides are native to 8 and don't work in 6) to be an excellent tool. Adblocking, spell check, and lots of other features.

I'm getting all this and more from IE7Pro, which is free. http://www.ie7pro.com/ It also supports user scripts like Greasemonkey does for Firefox. I switch between browsers depending on what I do, but IE7Pro really makes the comparison between the two a bit more even. Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with the IE7Pro project, just a satisfied user.

http://www.ie7pro.com/

http://www.ie7pro.com/

This destroys Microsoft's claim that their intimate knowledge of the OS that runs IE will increase performance.

This proves that Microsoft's intimate knowledge of their OS actually inhibits performance of IE and therefore all other Microsoft products.

Microsoft is a victim of their own feature-rich corporate culture. They are a victim of their customers non-uniform demands.

Microsoft is a victim of their own monopoly position. They seized dominance of the web browser market away from Netscape with IE 4, achieved monopoly status with IE 5, and with the release of IE 6 in 2001, they stopped development and did nothing but minor bugfixes for the next three years. It wasn't until 2004 that they released XPSP2 with a handful of new features, such as the information bar, popup blocker, add-on manager, and some new security features.

When you control over 90% of the market, you have no incentive to innovate. From 2001 to 2004, Microsoft simply didn't bother doing anything with IE, because they didn't have to. However, other browsers such as Firefox started becoming popular, and when IE's market share dipped below 90%, Microsoft realized if they wanted people to keep using IE at all, they would have to start competing again.

Microsoft still has a large market share, but obviously their competitors have the technical superiority, and in order to catch up, Microsoft will have to play by everybody else's rules. This means adding features that users want, listening to web developers, supporting industry standards, and cooperating with their competing browser vendors to ensure interoperability. SP2 was the very beginning of this effort, and IE7 was a serious attempt to make a browser that doesn't suck as much as IE6. Microsoft is back in the game, and they're playing by the rules, but after sitting on their thumbs for three years (and not doing a whole lot for the four years before that), it's going to take them a long time to catch up.

The issue is similar to the ones that have always plagued Java; you have to load massive libraries to do miniscule tasks and that causes noticeable overhead, when they were sadly intended to save time! Firefox is simply more minimal, and it is through their actively sought after security footprint that they deliver better performance by default.

Firefox loads what you need to surf and also lets you modify the experience -- you are in control.

It sounds to me like you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

Add with that experience, superior plugins like NoScript, and you also save bandwidth because Flash files don't load by default and scripts don't tie up resources unless you approve them to do so. NoScript was designed for security, but with the added benefit that you get faster performance with it.

Add-ons like NoScript aren't part of Firefox. Support for them is, but IE added that support years ago (and IE add-ons like this are available).

Even when you look at Google Chrome, which is also a valid attempt at increasing performance (they flaunt security as a pillar of their design, but their cheerleading is unwarranted),

Again, you don't know what you're talking about; they haven't reached a 1.0 release yet, so of course it's buggy, but their design philosophy isn't just cheerleading.

the fact that you can't control scripts that are allowed to run, limits the user and make the user bound to the control of the webmaster, who typically controlled by a business or corporation that is only in it for the money and will infringe on rights of users without any form of conscience or compassion.

Maybe you should start visiting better web sites. I have absolutely no interest in blocking JavaScript or Flash, because I avoid sites that abuse them, just as I avoid sites that abuse HTML and CSS to do obnoxious things.

http://www.ie7pro.com/

http://www.ie7pro.com/

Despite the name, it works in IE6 and IE8 beta 1.

It's a rather big extension that slows down IE launch because it also does a bunch of other things (inline find, spellchecking, etc.).

IE7Pro does ad blocking and a lot more.

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You're perfectly correct: the browser (and its plugins) shouldn't be allowed to do this. Running with non-admin permissions helps but your user data can still get badly fscked, user-mode programs can be installed and run silently, etc. You need tighter restrictions, like not allowing the browser to access most of the hard drive under normal conditions.

Sounds like a good reason to use Protected Mode on Vista or to set up an AppArmor profile on Linux: Specifically restrict the browser's permissions. Protected Mode makes this pretty easy, but isn't configurable and isn't available for other browsers.

As a side note, IE7Pro (works on IE6 too, sort of) has ad filtering and flash blocking features, for those who would like AdBlock/FlashBlock functionality (a lot else too, but that's mostly all I use it for) but don't always use Firefox.

No, just more people using IE7Pro. People aren't likely to just switch browser on a whim unless Firefox can offer something HUGELY better. And don't say security, because it's obvious the average user doesn't care about that. Truth is, people see Firefox and think "slower than IE, looks different, nah".

IE7Pro is your friend: inline search just like FF, spellcheck, addblock/flashblock, session/tab restore, greasemonkey, mouse gestures, and a whole bunch of other goodness for free. I've used FF religiously since pre 1.0, but the ridiculous memory consumption finally forced me to look for an IE ad blocker (*my* killer FF feature), and I found out that this had been released just last month. Haven't opened FF a once since then...

I use firefox (wih adblockplus) and it works great. If I need to use IE7 then I do with the "IE7Pro" addin - that blocks adds! So both my main browsers block most adverts!
Hip Hip Hooray! I can go to pages on NOT have to decipher through endless crappy adverts to get to the info I want. Too many sites run way too many adds - to the point where the internet is nothing more than one big advertisement !
IF sites were to make advertising more appropriate, and less obstructing then people wouldn't need add blocking software.
So if your forced to go to some sites with IE then dont forget to install IE7Pro available from http://www.ie7pro.com/

Then these sites will have to block IE as well?

Hmmmmm,I use IE and i don't see any ads. Matter of fact Ive had an ad free IE long before no ads was an option on foxfire. This is what i am using now,its very good. http://www.ie7pro.com/

http://www.ie7pro.com/

I spot-check our site logs for ad blockers, and so far, nothing to worry about. Many easier opportunities to get more traffic with usability tweaks.

There is a simple AJAX technique for detecting ad blockers, of course, and it also spots MSIE users.

BTW: ad blocking for MSIE.

For IE users, you can use IE7Pro -- Its like the ultimate plug-in for IE supporting video download, Ad Blocking, Inline Find, Spell checker etc etc.

There is an add-on for Internet Explorer providing (amongst other things) functionality similar to AdBlock: IE7Pro.