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I cannot even view anything on the first page of any board anymore becasue it just comes up and just comes back three seconds later if i press skip.

I had the same problem and resolved it like this:

If you use IE just add *.adbrite.com to your Restricted Sites zone (Tools > Internet Options > Security Tab > Restricted zone > Sites button).

There are people here that actually don't use Firefox? Heresey.

>>5 Posh!

I actually prefer IE7 to Firefox 2. While Firefox does have some nice addons (IE does too) I find Internet Explorer's interface to be MUCH better. IE's interface acts the same as the rest of the Windows UI and it seems more responsive (see http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000789.html for more details).  I also think IE does a better job with tabs--they just feel "smoother" or something.

Admittedly for web development Firefox's Firebug addon is a must-have, but for my day-to-day stuff I use IE.

I have some messed up version of IE7 that came with the computer. I basically don't have back, forward, or refresh buttons and can't even bring them out.

Thus, I use firefox because right-clicking is annoying to me. :P

>>1 Host has been notificated and is asking adbrite to check their shit.

Meanwhile ensure that nothing on your computer, network AND isp is blocking any cookies. Without cookies the ad scripts can't tell wether you saw an interstitial at that day or not and will jsut randomly serve one up.


>> ie vs. ff
Most who know me, will know i think both are shite and that only opera is the holy grail. ;D

Anyhow. Looking at google statistics tells me that this month ie users are only 37% of all visitors here. Last month they were 39%, and they've been slowly dwindling. Why is that relevant? As soon as that number goes below 25% i will be blocking ie completely on web server level.

At that time i will FINALLY be able stop bowing to ie's shitty bugs that force me to jump through numerous time-consuming hoops, just so all of fchan's features work in all 3 major browsers.

And a little side comment regarding native feel and speed:
1. Look around a bit, there are skins for all browsers. My current opera browser looks like it escaped from Win98 and had a little shag with Win2K on the way to the present.
2. As far as i can tell Opera feels faster than IE, due to more responsive rendering engine.

>>12
Buy me a mac then. :O

I has a cunning plan.

If you feel it's alright to make me jump through hoops, just so you can have bullets instead of asterikses, then i can only wish you good luck in life and hope you never address me again...

>>15

Sorry if you thought I was ranting at/about you or Fchan.  As a web developer myself I understand the pain that's often associated with getting a site to work correctly in all the major browsers.  If you choose to stop supporting IE, that's your decision to make.

All I was doing was explaining why I don't care for the Firefox UI.  Admittedly the examples I gave aren't really that important in the Big Picture, but they are just that -- examples.

Reading over my post again I'm not sure why you thought there was any malice on my part.  Sorry I guess.

>>14

That's quite a nitpick there really.  The differences don't bother me at all.  Of course I use both a Mac and a PC and I've been through just about every browser you can think of...

My first brower was Lynx on a VAX minicomputer.  After that I used NCSA Mosaic on the Macintosh (those were the days!).  Netscape came next.  IE was only used when I had no choice on some locked down computers on campus.  When the dark days of Netscape (5 or 6 I think) came around and it's horrible bloating that killed off Netscape, I started looking for alternatives.  I used a Mac at home and started using Opera for a bit.  It wasn't bad, but then iCab came out and I really liked that browser a lot better.  Then you had the pre-firefox mozilla days.  On the PC it was called Phoenix.  On the Mac I used Camino, which was probably one of the fastest browsers I ever used.  Eventually Phoenix changed to Firefox and then they had a decent Mac port and I ended up using that.

I far prefer Firefox for it's features as well as better security on the PC.  I saw someone talking about IE doing better tabs.  IE borrowed the whole idea from Firefox.  You wouldn't have tabs in IE if Firefox/Mozilla had not made them popular.

I never even knew we had ads here... I haven't seen an ad anywhere in... well, a year or so.

THAT's why I use Firefox.
If you don't like ads, you should too.
Just download the Adblock extension and filterset.G updater, and never see an ad again.
Firefox is also much faster than IE at rendering, and faster still if you tweak it out or use the fasterfox extension.
It's more secure than IE. In two years of using firefox, I have had ZERO spyware infections. The addition of NoScript makes Firefox impenetrable.
Firefox is worlds better for web development and modding.
The tabbed browsing in Firefox (with the right extension) is also far superior to IE. I frankly didn't care for the Firefox 2 tabs, but you can configure them however you want with TabControl.

Also, IE7, while better than IE6, still has nothing on Firefox. Their tabbing is a cheap knockoff of Firefox's, and while they've made a lot of progress on FINALLY supporting 21st century web standards, they still have a ways to go.

The Firefox UI is functionally SUPERIOR to the IE one. I can't see the fact that IE's is more aesthetically similar to the native OS as a reason to prefer it. If you're just too used to the IE interface, then I would suggest that you start getting used to a better one, such as Firefox or opera, and see where that takes you.

After two years of using Firefox, I couldn't possibly go back to IE... I feel like I'm going to hemorrhage or something anytime I try to cope with the inferior IE interface and features at a public terminal. It is MUCH easier to transition from IE to Firefox than it is to transition from Firefox back to IE.