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Google Chrome Tops Browser Speed Tests
ThinSkin writes "So many Web browsers, so little time. The folks at ExtremeTech have assembled the ultimate browser test to determine which Web browser is king. From speed tests to rendering tests, different browsers traded off wins, but Google Chrome came out on top."
How about people who use TIVO?
They gain the ability to skip ads at the price of having to watch the television show at a later date.
Just because I sometimes want a less-intrusive browsing experience does not make me a leech.
Actually it does. Just like in torrenting, if you seed one torrent forever but refuse to seed any other torrents you use, your leeching.
I have no problem paying for stuff, and contribute to free projects, donate to Wikipedia etc.
Then why not contact extremetech and ask them how much your blocking the ads cost them and send them that amount? If you're willing to pay for an ad-less internet, why not actually pay for it?
If you don't want to visit websites that don't have ads, then don't do it. Start support for a Firefox plugin that doesn't load domains that are ad-supported.
Using ad-blocker is simply stealing. And yes I do call it stealing because you are incurring a cost on the content provider without compensating them. Its no different from stealing at a store with poor security.
If I don't want to view a website's ads, I don't view the website. It is truly that simple. So I'll only be "disturbed" for a few seconds.
Konqueror sucks. On most of the sites I visit, it doesn't render the page properly. For that matter, Even Firefox 3.0.3 continuously crashes on my Fedora Core 9 installation.
The BSOD has become quite rare on Windows (since Windows 2000), but these seemingly random crashes continue to plague Linux. And then we ask on Slashdot why people are afraid to use Linux!
Remember, unlike tv, the websites you love don't get money just for showing you the ads
Many do actually.
(or do you just click, load the tab and then close it, just to get that warm fuzzy feeling of knowing that x website is now $0.0000000001 richer?)
If an ad is shown there's a chance (no matter how small) I'll click on the link. If I use ad-blocker, that chance is reduced to zero.
In that case it's like not surfing the Guardian or BBC homepage (if you're British), or CNN/NBC (if you're American, not sure which one is the most popular news site), or Slashdot (if you're a geek). Spiegel Online is a very popular news website for German speakers. Well, except for the ads ;)
If they're "important" enough and enough people don't like viewing their ads, the demand will create an alternative for these people.
All of those incur a cost (not loading any images) and as such are comparable with fast forwarding a television show.