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Well, it's a good thing you can distinguish between good and bad software. Maybe you can even employ that skill when choosing which to use. And if you choose Free, Commercial software, you can't lose, right?

But seriously, if you don't have to pay any money for the privilege of installing and running some piece of software, that's one less thing you'll loose if it turns out to be a bad choice. I don't care how much bad software is out there (of any license or cost). I only care about the good stuff. If you avoid all gratis or libre software because a large percentage of those categories is of poor quality, you might as well avoid the web because such a high percentage of websites suck.

Firefox extensions and browser plugins proper certainly can be disabled/prevented from installing by Mozilla. See https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/blocklist/ for the (en-US only?) naughty list.

I don't know what SeaMonkey, Camino, Iceweasel, etc do, but filtering for "blocklist" on about:config shows your browser's exact settings. Notably the extensions.blocklist.enabled pref allows the user to turn the remote killswitch off if they so desire.

It's not normal for either Firefox 3.0.x or 3.5 beta to crash on ajax sites. If you are getting crashes, look up your crash reports and search for your crash signature on Bugzilla.

Plugin crashes (eg. flash) are among the most common, but corrupt files and spyware on Windows machines have also been known to cause them. If you are getting a specific crash that can be reproduced, either file a bug or comment on an existing bug with details.

WinOld users will still be free to use Firefox 3.5, and will get updates for a good while.

A "good while" is only 6 months after the next (incompatible) version is released. For example, Firefox 3.0 was released May/June 2008, and no longer supports Win98/SE/ME, so Win98/SE/ME users must use Firefox 2.0.x, but security releases for Firefox 2.0.x ended in December 2008.

Mozilla to end support for Firefox 2

"Firefox 2.0.0.x will be maintained with security and stability updates until mid-December, 2008. All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 3."

They've already been dropping support for legacy systems. Firefox 3.x doesn't run on OS X below version 10.4:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/system-requirements-v3.html
Thankfully, the 2.x version is still available.

I believe the EOF is for new features.

I think you were going for "EOL" (End of Life), not "EOF" (End of File).

Also, the EOL on FX 2 (the suggested abbreviation for Firefox via Mozilla is FX, not FF, see here) ended in December 2008 (according to Mozilla's FX 2 website).

I believe the EOF is for new features.

I think you were going for "EOL" (End of Life), not "EOF" (End of File).

Also, the EOL on FX 2 (the suggested abbreviation for Firefox via Mozilla is FX, not FF, see here) ended in December 2008 (according to Mozilla's FX 2 website).

The Mozilla EULA doesn't say anything similar to the clause in the Chrome terms, yet they somehow managed to avoid a lawsuit. Moreover, both EULAs can be avoided completely by compiling from the freely-licensed source code.

The Chrome clause seems to be more related to a service than to a product. Probably more legal recycling by Google.

Was ist der Unterschied zur Keyword-Suche Lesezeichen?

I just translated your comment in-place to German by highlighting it, bringing up ubiquity and typing: translate selection to german.

I can also delete elements (much like mouse gestures), edit the page, highlight multiple addresses and map them on Google, highlight and email sections of the page, etc.

The plugin seems a bit Google-centric at the moment (Gmail, Google Calendar, etc.), but nevertheless I think it's brilliant.

And yes, it's much more than a simple keyword search, watch the Flash demo to get an idea.

the Opera browser has had this for at least a couple versions already - if you enter ' g (search phrase here) ' it will google for you, e for ebay, etc etc.

This is old hat, no?

Mozilla has had this since it was Netscape Communicator, in the form of Keyword Searches. The new feature here is that the Awesome Bar will show a little pop up of your search results as you type. That's just what I need on my crusty old machine, a Google Maps page load between each keystroke.

Maybe my first Firefox Add-On will be something that allows you to disable the bloat features...

Screenshot from article

The idea is interesting, but wouldn't this be better served as an add-on? That would keep Firefox true to it's add-on roots, IMO.

I completely agree. Now that I see the pictures, it looks more like combining the Awesome Bar with Keyword Searches, both of which should ALSO be add-ons. I have an older machine and this looks like it will make my Firefox run like crap everytime I try to type in the address bar (which is a lot).

Meanwhile, Safari gets faster every version...

There's a whole lot more to this than simple searching via the URL bar.
 
See this video and shows how powerful it could be: http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/ubiquity/

No, it's oh so much more than that.

Watch the video, it explains everything, and looks like a very cool feature with a LOT of potential.

http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/ubiquity/

Screenshot from article

The idea is interesting, but wouldn't this be better served as an add-on? That would keep Firefox true to it's add-on roots, IMO.

If you're worried about security at all, why are you running a browser 19 security patches out of date?

It's not just about sticker price, and "FOSS beyond Linux servers" is pretty broad.

I'm a tech writer/UI designer/sometimes web guy at a small (~75 employees) ISV. Our company uses, and even prefers, FOSS when it suits us. Our two head IT guys are Linux nerds like me, which helps.

Basically, the F/OSS software we use falls into one of several categories (this only includes the software I use in my roles, and that I encountered during a stint in QA).

1. FOSS software that sees regular use.
   • Linux: It powers our web and mail servers. Our QA guys use Linux + VMWare to test our (Windows-based) server software. I've been offered a Linux workstation for a web-based project I'm working on, but XP+IIS may be the only solution.*
   • Audacity: We use this to record voice tracks for Captivate demos.
   • 7-zip: Every workstation has this.
   • Firefox: Again, the company standard.
   • Notepad++: A few of us have this for editing raw HTML/CSS/XML/etc.
   • OpenOffice: Don't get excited, Office 2003 is still our bread and butter. This lives on my secondary workstation for simple one-off tasks.
2. OSS software that was tried but failed
   • GIMP: This was before I started at the company, and at the time it couldn't equal Paint Shop Pro (which is what we use now).
   • Scribus: We tried this before caving and purchasing FrameMaker 8. Scribus simply can't match the features or (more importantly) training resources of FrameMaker.

We also use Lotus Notes, which is based on Eclipse.

* I have 2 XP workstations so that I can run every product I might need to document, some of which must be run simultaneously on separate machines. Neither machine is up to spec for Xen or VMWare.

He just wants a couple of technical features built into the OSS browsers to support loading custom client-side code and for you to more easily know which license the code is under.

Well, we already have a bunch of popular open source web browsers. How about he use his open source ideals and implement it himself.

If the Mozilla Crash reporter appears try and get a crash id for the report. If you have any questions you can email me at ./_username at gmail or reply to this thread. http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Mozilla+Crash+Reporter

It looks like they did. Firefox 3.1 beta 3 is still not available on the All Betas page, and when you click on the Download Now link on the Release Notes page, you get Firefox 3.1 beta 2.

if you really wanted firefox 3.1 beta 3 then you'd be using it like i do since march 6th, since build2 of this beta release candidate has been published onto the ftp server (fx3.1b3 is really _that_ folder):
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/3.1b3-candidates/build2/

It looks like they did. Firefox 3.1 beta 3 is still not available on the All Betas page, and when you click on the Download Now link on the Release Notes page, you get Firefox 3.1 beta 2.

if you really wanted firefox 3.1 beta 3 then you'd be using it like i do since march 6th, since build2 of this beta release candidate has been published onto the ftp server (fx3.1b3 is really _that_ folder):
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/3.1b3-candidates/build2/

How about using this link?
http://www.mozilla.com/products/download.html?product=firefox-3.1b3&os=linux&lang=en-US

Worked for me, and it should use the mirror-rotating.

This link works, and seems to use the rotation script so I hope I'm not making things worse:

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.html?product=firefox-3.1b3&os=linux&lang=en-US

(insert your OS of choice in the link)

TheUni

Hey everyone - glad you're excited about the new beta, we're pretty excited to release it. We actually haven't finished the QA on the download page, the update snippets, etc, yet. What you're seeing here is that last night we started sending out the final bits to our mirror network. So yes, you could go get it directly off the FTP servers, but that can overload mirrors and make it hard for other people to download it.

We'd prefer if you waited a few hours until about 2pm PDT when we'll be ready to update:

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all-beta.html

which uses our mirror-rotation script to ease the load of downloads.

Mike Beltzner
Director of Firefox Development

It looks like they did. Firefox 3.1 beta 3 is still not available on the All Betas page, and when you click on the Download Now link on the Release Notes page, you get Firefox 3.1 beta 2.

The release linked to in the summary may not be the final, completed version, as Firefox 3.1 beta 3 has not been officially released yet. Download it at your own risk. You should wait until it's available through the links I give in this post.

It looks like they did. Firefox 3.1 beta 3 is still not available on the All Betas page, and when you click on the Download Now link on the Release Notes page, you get Firefox 3.1 beta 2.

The release linked to in the summary may not be the final, completed version, as Firefox 3.1 beta 3 has not been officially released yet. Download it at your own risk. You should wait until it's available through the links I give in this post.

this function has been taken over by wysiwyg javascript editors in the website itself

Or, more generally, on the web itself. For example, see the new Mozilla Labs project, Bespin.

Avoid Microsoft products where possible. Computers using the Microsoft Windows platform are especially vulnerable as of this writing (although no operating system is immune to all potential attacks). Consider using a non-Microsoft operating system if possible. However, if you have to use Microsoft Windows and you are connecting to the Internet, your best bet is to minimize the number of Microsoft Internet applications you use â" for example, use Firefox as a browser or Thunderbird as a mail client. Microsoftâ(TM)s Internet Explorer and its email programs Outlook and Outlook Express are very difficult for even professionals to secure. Furthermore, adversaries tend to attack more popular platforms and applications.

Keep your software updated. Use the latest stable version of your operating system. As of this writing, Windows 95, 98, and ME are utterly obsolete. You should be using at least Windows Server 2003 for servers and Windows XP for clients, with all patches and service packs applied. For Macintosh computers, use OS X 10.4 or greater, with all patches applied. For Linux and Unix, get whatever version is the most recent stable release, and follow all updates. It is especially important not to let server software versions lag behind, since servers are always on and always connected.

Maintain your firewalls. Firewalls are software or hardware components that protect your computer or network from the Internet, blocking traffic based on network-related parameters like IP addresses and port numbers. Firewalls can protect against those who want to access your computer without permission. Configuring network firewalls is pretty tough for the layperson and beyond the scope of this guide, but you should learn how to use the personal firewall software thatâ(TM)s included in most recent operating systems.

For more detailed information about malware, check out the Malware article in the Defensive Technology section.

Avoid Microsoft products where possible. Computers using the Microsoft Windows platform are especially vulnerable as of this writing (although no operating system is immune to all potential attacks). Consider using a non-Microsoft operating system if possible. However, if you have to use Microsoft Windows and you are connecting to the Internet, your best bet is to minimize the number of Microsoft Internet applications you use â" for example, use Firefox as a browser or Thunderbird as a mail client. Microsoftâ(TM)s Internet Explorer and its email programs Outlook and Outlook Express are very difficult for even professionals to secure. Furthermore, adversaries tend to attack more popular platforms and applications.

Keep your software updated. Use the latest stable version of your operating system. As of this writing, Windows 95, 98, and ME are utterly obsolete. You should be using at least Windows Server 2003 for servers and Windows XP for clients, with all patches and service packs applied. For Macintosh computers, use OS X 10.4 or greater, with all patches applied. For Linux and Unix, get whatever version is the most recent stable release, and follow all updates. It is especially important not to let server software versions lag behind, since servers are always on and always connected.

Maintain your firewalls. Firewalls are software or hardware components that protect your computer or network from the Internet, blocking traffic based on network-related parameters like IP addresses and port numbers. Firewalls can protect against those who want to access your computer without permission. Configuring network firewalls is pretty tough for the layperson and beyond the scope of this guide, but you should learn how to use the personal firewall software thatâ(TM)s included in most recent operating systems.

For more detailed information about malware, check out the Malware article in the Defensive Technology section.

I really like Mozilla's Live Chat.
You may try setting up for your needs.

Open Source zealots still use IE to post to Slashdot. Why?

Because MS is an OS monopoly that illegally ties its browser to its OS. It's difficult to get away from Windows and IE, because of their anticompetitive behavior. That's the whole point of the EU decision!

Wait, what?

Seriously?

There exists open-source zealots who find it "difficult" to find another browser than IE to post on Slashdot? Let me help them out, then: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

Use Thunderbird with GMail and configure it so that every time there's a new message it is synced to your local hard drive but also left on the server (IMAP probably though I think the same can be done with POP).

My linux box at home has been doing this for years, I just leave Thunderbird open and set my monitor to sleep after 15 minutes of inactivity. I don't care if my GMail and college mail accounts temporarily go down, it's all mirrored on that machine.

Anti-Microsoft zealot bonus rant: I stopped using Hotmail when I realized I could not access it outside of Outlook Express ... I'm aware of ways around this but there's a simpler solution: don't use Hotmail. This and the fact that (last I checked) it didn't support forwarding are two very good reasons to move on to a free mail service more dedicated to you. The choice is yours.

Not buying it.
Just cos you don't see it as a click through, does not mean it is not there.

Take a look at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/legal/eula/firefox-en.html

Fire Fox has it's own Zero Day attack
I got nailed with the XP Police 'anti-virus' by navigating to a url via FireFox. No additional clicking, no user-error, no accepting/running/allowing anything out of the ordinary. Simply watched page load then was infected.

I went back to the page in question with IE 8 and it wasn't vulnerable to whatever attacked FF 3.06.

The browser religion war is over and we've all lost to shoddy programming. You can always attempt to hide in the latest obscure OS/browser, but at some point you will be caught by someoneelses mistakes.

Didn't they also just announce that they are NOT joining in on the suite, simply advising the EU about facts regarding browsers, standards and the web in general?

We are following it closely and are obviously interested in the outcome. Mozilla has received âoeinterested third partyâ status in the ECâ(TM)s investigation. As a result, we may see the Statement of Objections confidentially. We may participate in a hearing if the EC concurs. Mozillaâ(TM)s role as an interested third party best enables us to contribute our knowledge of the browser industry to the EC. Mozilla is not a complainant; we have not "joined the suit", despite some reports to the contrary.

Maybe before CWMike starts posting articles about Mozilla joining a suit, he should check first! Here's the Link

you should take a look in the "about" section of their page http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/about/whatismozilla.html

corporation doesn't mean for-profit. non-profits can be corporations too, usually consist of a board of directors, executive director, management, staff etc.

Mozilla, a non-profit organisation? Where have you been the past few years? There's such a thing as Mozilla Corporation: http://www.mozilla.com/

True, you get Google's top result and you can also use Firefox's keywords feature to create search shortcuts of your own. But Ubiquity is more powerful. You can highlight a page of Craigslist results and use the map command and it will actually extract addresses from the detail pages of each result and map all of them. It can do translation of a webpage while you're on it, do syntax highlighting on code snippets, etc.

That said I still don't think it needs to be integrated in the browser and I don't see the problem with keeping it as an extension.

On a related note, the article isn't quite explicit, but the lightweight theming is provided by another Mozilla Labs extension that's available today called Personas.

I group passwords two ways.

1. Sites that have no personal info or I don't really give a damn about. Those share 2 or 3 different passwords depending on their lame (no special characters!) requirements. Pick two words, use 7334 spelling and separate them by a punctuation mark. For example "mad money" becomes "M@d;m0n3y". Good luck guessing stuff like that.

2. Sites that I care about, like online banking or ones that contain personal information (LinkedIn, for example), have random line noise for passwords and I just write them down. There is a notebook in my desk with all the passwords. The desk is locked and in my home office. That is far more secure than trying to make them easy enough to memorize.

3. If you use Firefox, make sure you use a Master Password if you allow it to remember passwords.

Someone posted this earlier and it is a useful BASH script.

dd if=/dev/random bs=200 count=1 | tr -cd 'A-Za-z0-9!@#$%^&*()_+'; echo

Copy a group of 10-15 out of the middle of that and use it for a password.

If you use Firefox 3, you can start typing and the address bar -- now dubbed 'awesome bar' will show you results from your history that match keywords either from the URL you're typing or from the title of the webpage. Just hit Ctrl+L instead of Ctrl+K

Yes, I believe the MS gamebook says to Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish. Or as their competitors liked to say EEE!!!!

I thought Windows ran on the EEE. On the other hand, Netscape's last word was "Aieeee!" (It's spelled like it sounds, though.)

Honestly, however, Netscape's last word was RAAAAAAAAAR! And Microsoft is definitely still hearing the echoes...

Read the blog post. The goal is (in my interpretation) that usability researchers can ask specific questions like "How often do people click on this 10x10 square vs that 10x10 square", and if it's a ratio of 10:1, they can make the more common square bigger. Or ask how many tabs people have open at once, broken down into "new users" and "experienced users", and work on appropriate changes to the performance of the app. I understand it to mean Test Pilot allows researchers (extension authors, browser developers) to allow people to opt in to the tracking to answer their particular question.

Like the Office 2007 ribbon or not, Microsoft collected a very large amount of data to make the decisions they made (go watch Jensen Harris's presentation) and this would be a similar way to ensure that data is available for Mozilla usability researchers.

Plus, the people paid to hack on Labs aren't going to fix the administration/packaging bugs. It's not an either-or situation.

Load the flash games in a Prism app.

As a side note, I have problems with my Flash plugin. It doesn't load Flash files at times. Other times, it will load a Flash movie, but the file will attempt to execute some JavaScript which the Flash plugin interprets as "open an IE window to execute 'javascript:someFunction();'" Since that function doesn't exist on a plain IE page, the window errors out but the plugin (undaunted) tries again. And again. And again. Until my system freezes up with 50 IE windows on the screen. For some reason, it doesn't get that Firefox is my default browser.

Perhaps this is a job for Prism? Have your bank's site run inside a Prism session, completely unconnected to any other website. I do this with Google Reader mainly because I like the increased screen space I get over FireFox (don't need tabs and such taking away screen space). I just launch my Google Reader Prism shortcut and away I go.

"I used to work in a school about 5 years ago when I .. started changing the network backbone to Linux in my school"

Do you mind providing the name of the school? What do you mean, you changed the switches & routers?, if so what did they run on before and why the need to change ?

"I was a newbie in the tech departments at the time"

But they let you upgrade the 'backbone'?

"The existing Linux "expert" .. had a problem and .. refused to look at it citing the amount of time and his previous Linux experience"

What was the nature of his problem, what was he tryign to do, give specifics. Did either of you contact other educational facilities involved in Linux migration .. ?

"Bottom line what it comes down to is budget strapped school systems can't afford a sizable tech department that can take the time to research and develop new systems"

What research do you need to browse the Internet, email and do word processing, spreadsheets etc, all of which are currently available on Windows ...

firefox has these
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Parental+controls

I must admit i have never heard of pics labels considering its been around since 1996 and seems browser dependent it doesn't seem to be very successful.

The problem is that trying to create a list of the bad stuff doesn't work. Take a recent story in the news about the guy who dressed up in a santa suit and started of by shooting an 8 year old in the face. should your child be exposed to stories like this?
  so really you need to be positively identifying child friendly sites because its a lot easier for a webmaster to decide if he really wants kids on his site or not. Thats why I see an opt-in system being a lot easier to implement than a lets force everyone to declare their site to be adult or not. Slashdot is mostly kid friendly till you go through some of the comments for example so perhaps the front page is kid safe but user comments are not. A site based ages.txt can apply for some sites others it may depend on the pages a meta age=18 on a page or Age=8 could be used to give the browser an opportunity to not display a page based on its content.

I guess what needs doing is an rfc proposal

If Kids are your target audience then you should be prepared to jump through a few hoops so that kids can view your pages and you should be prepared to police your pages where users can add content to your site. My site www.phelansguesthouse.com isn't controversial in any way, but I don't really want kids clicking on my google ads
for example. That just costs me money since they cant book rooms or restaurants.

So put the kids in a walled garden and let the parents blacklist sites that abuse the tags that would allow kids access. Obviously some oversight would be needed, It'd make no sense for say toys r us to be blacklisted just because some parents don't like it although a hosts list could block it on a particular families pc's
  Really there is no way to make all sites comply with any system unless it has positive value for them.

I guess what is needed is a rfc proposal being put to the IEFC but how to submit it to them I don't know.

heres a page with a couple of parental controls easy to find and free

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Parental+controls

"popular" apps and peripherals in the senior citizen crowd (think of, web-browsing, photo viewing, photo-printing, web-cams etc.) are much more readily available for windows than for linux.

FireFox
kview
PhotoPrint
icam

I'll give that the webcam is a little bit gray area. But maybe MORE SELECTION for windows, but I wouldn't say not readily available.

Which brings up why I love the way things are today: choice. I remember the bad old days when it was either IE or if you wanted to suffer the really crappy Netscape edition(4 IIRC) and now we all have so many more choices. In my family alone we have Seamonkey for my mom(who refuses to surf without her "blue bird"), we have Kmeleon for my sister(who loves its layout and speed), we have Opera for my oldest boy (who says anything after version 5 sucks and refuses to update) and we have Flock for the youngest(who loves social sites) and finally Firefox for me,because of Adblock+ and Noscript,along with FEBE and iMacros.

So IMHO it doesn't really matter who is the "best" as long as we have plenty of others to choose from. Because I can tell you that the way it was before really sucked the big wet titty. But thanks to free software and plenty of choices my family can each have their own browser that suits their personality and can stay the hell out of mine, which is always a good thing. That and the fact that I can have IE removed from the program list and blocked at the firewall and nobody in my family seems to care. So if any of the designers of the above browsers read this: Thank you. You have made my family very happy and made it easier for me to keep the peace. So thanks.

• VLC, when it stops playing, resizes back to 1 inch by 2 inches or so. If it's maximized, and you click the exit button on the top right, there's a chance it will go away and you will click the exit button of whatever app was behind it, maximized. I trained myself to use "ALT-F-X" to quit, then they removed the "File" menu, and added a shortcut ALT-Q, so now it makes no sense among other windows apps.
• Firefox tell you when it's time to update. It has "update" on the left side, and "skip" on the bottom right, where I am used to seeing "next" or "continue" type buttons. Then when the update is finished, the "finished" button is on the bottom right, the opposite side of the dialog from the "update" button you just clicked. So I usually hit "skip" because it's in the wrong place, then when I do hit the "update" button I'm pissed off because now the next button I have to click is right where I wanted to click in the first place.
• Typing any sentence that includes a space in it can have any random effect on your computer. While you're typing, a modal dialog pops up and asks you something, with the default key set to "yes". Just typing the space key clicks the button. If you are a touch typist you might catch the dialog, but hunt-and-peck typists or anyone struggling to use a keyboard will have no idea that they just clicked something. So the alternate interface (keyboard) in this case interferes with the intended interface (mouse).
• Application Minimize/Maximize buttons are RIGHT NEXT to the "close this application immediately" button. How in the holy crap is a disabled user supposed to deal with that?
• Internet explorer especially, trying to navigate through forms, you get a "tab stop" on every link, form field, or any random collection of things ever. So on a site with extensive top navigation, sub navigation (left side) and hyperlinked help text, it can be hundreds of links you have to tab through to get to the form field. Of course there's the old "onLoad=javascript:document.formname.fieldname.focus()" but if I'm already typing because the site loads slowly, that function is going to make me overwrite something. In some cases, I have typed in a username, hit tab, then the page finishes loading and focuses back on the username while I type in the password in clear text. Opera used to use TAB for forms, and "a" key for links. Firefox lets you choose a mutually exclusive way of doing things, so as far as I can see there is no "links only" and "fields only" command available at the same time (accessibility.tabfocus). If I were disabled and trying to navigate a web page, I would probably go back to lynx, or quit using the intartubes completely.
• Especially in Windows NT-based lines, hard disk I/O is prioritized. I can't tell you how many times I switch between applications, or even just try to accomplish something in Windows while I/O is going on, and I can't even figure out what's going on. CTRL-ALT-DEL does not bring up the task manager for 30 seconds to a minute. ALT-TAB doesn't switch, or the application seems hung. Can't click on any explorer windows (and explorer is almost the entire graphical interface). But when it comes up, Task Manager reports 20% or lower CPU usage, often 95% plus is going to the system idle process. I can't cancel anything when that happens, just have to wait for your computer to do what it wants before it does what I want. This isn't particularly a user's abilities complaint, but the interface should actually interface - not be a one way read only "I'm busy doing something, come back laterface". Especially with multithreading and multiple cores!

Or you could just use NoScript. If you are waiting for the all of the self-proclaimed web designers and developers out there to change their ways then you are likely going to be waiting for a very long time. Firefox + AdBlock + NoScript...accept no substitutes.