QtD 0.1 is out!

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Chris R Miller" <lordsauronthegreat at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:gmgeq2$11jp$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> BTW, Daniel, if you're on Firefox, you need to install the Adblock Plus
>> addon and set it up with some of the subscriptions here:
>> http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions  I'm not exaggerating when I say
>> that for a few months before I found that addon, using the web was so bad 
>> I
>> was *very* close to abandoning use of the web entirely. (I have some 
>> other
>> addon recommendations too, if you're interested.) In fact, that addon is 
>> the
>> main reason I use Firefox as my primary browser even though I generally
>> dislike Firefox. This addon still doesn't solve all of the problems with 
>> JS,
>> but it at least changes to web from "completely unusable garbage" (and
>> that's no exaggeration) to merely "frequently irritating".
>
> You must frequent some fantastically horrible websites.  I use the 'net 
> quite frequently, and I don't experience anywhere near enough 
> consternation to even consider finding a popup blocker.

Adblock Plus blocks any type of ad, not just popups. To be honest, I would 
have no problem with web ads if they were just simple static images like 
from back before popups. It's just all of the visual-movement, slow-JS, 
potential for malware, etc. that I can't/won't tolerate.