Internet Explorer drives me insane

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It depends on the site as to how many popups you get. WP is covered, left, right, above, and beneath...sigh..
Firefox has a downloads page (heck, practically a site) with tens of thousands of add-ons, all free, that can do everything but make your system tap-dance...

Not your imagination at all. Firefox is faster than IE.


Click Tools->Add-ons->Get add-ons and search for Adblock Plus.

You need to get the AdBlock-Plus Add-on

Click Tools > Add-ons > Get Add-ons and select the above. Problem solved.

Ads are good. They are what allow you to visit a website for free.

It's easy for you to say that, but what about other people? Oh, and yea, you do have to "learn" how to use Firefox. Addons and plugins require a basic little teaching lesson.

Just FYI, I am wondering if I should eventually move this over to WP Discussion, since it seems likely we're discussing a virus coming from the site.

Most of the time that is unlikely. Is possible that that a hacker may embed something on this site that may pose are isk tot he client, however the client could just as well encounter that problem elsewhere. If for the sake of argument it was, it is relying on a exploit that is a weakness in the client program/os, or it is a makes use of trickery or misdirection to get in (more likely).

I have done stuff like embedded code in a ebay listing the redirected to google. the reimbursed me for the listing when I demonstrated, then offered me a gift which I declined, and them promptly did nothing about it for months. In any event it is deception, but I was relying on the fact that they incredibly were using client side scripting to try and control malicious code. Rule one is you can't control what happens on the client side. that is the users domain. beyond superficial, this site infrastructure is mostly server side. Injecting malicious code is possible on the server side, and consequently on the client side if it is left unchecked. This ancient version of phpBB has known vulnerabilities so it is certainly possible. However if it was infecting peoples computers we would here more than this. I would worry more about privacy more than anything. People who report these things like "this site infected my computer", often willing let a malicious program in another way, then they are deal with the consequences of a such program interacting with their browsing experience.

A payload of simply redirecting a browser to goggle, serves no purpose. A small possibility is just to see if they can do it. It is also much more likely is a quirk, bug, bad interaction (malware or not). As much as I like firefox there is still a likely hood of within any pluggable program for the plug-in to interact badly with one another. However it a damn site easier to fix than the problems faced by IE.

I do hate it when someone that takes focus away from what you are doing. As previously said, you can be typing away, and a mis-timed press of the spacebar can select "restart now" Especially when it says "Save all your work, etc, etc" Even hotmail steals focus in Firefox with multiple tabs and signing out/in to my hotmail account.

Microsoft know how to piss someone off

I'm pretty sure it's not. This phenomenon was happening to me from all manner of sites, not just this one. I happened to mention it here because it was to the point that I couldn't read threads and it was really annoying. It hasn't reoccurred since I installed Firefox.

I still think there's got to be some option in IE or maybe Windows itself that says "if you can't load such-and-such page in a certain amount of time, then do a web search for the address given." I can't find that option, but I did see that IE requires a default search program, which in my case was Google. It won't let you "un-default" it. So I'm guessing this is how IE was designed to work, although it seems like a pretty stupid design to me.

By the way, Firefox also solved a problem I was having with another site. I hadn't been able to log on to the site for months, and now I can. It had to do with cookies. I guess the site wanted chocolate chip and Microsoft only did oatmeal.

Lol, cool. Like the way you said that

OK, I'll sit on moving or anything else. No problems yesterday afternoon on my personal computer, and none today on this different office computer. Not sure what is up. I'll post if I encounter it again.

I have zero, zip, nadda tech savy. So I have to trust everyone else's opinions.

Oh, yeah. Type the URL of the page where you can download the addon into the address bar and then when the page comes up, click the "Install addon" button. That is SOOOO difficult.

Please drop the sarcasm. Some of this stuff IS hard for some people. Think grandparents, kids who haven't gotten too far into their computers yet, and many people who never needed to get friendly with computers for work.

Well, it's been two days since I started using Firefox, and all is well. You guys were right ... I like it much better.

I spent some time yesterday and went over all the menu choices. It's all logical and makes sense to me (as compared to IE, which made very little sense and I was always cursing at it). I even fiddled with the Options a little, cause I don't like saving my browsing history and I want it to be deleted when I close the program.

Thanks so much to everyone who gave advice. I really appreciate it

Anyone adept enough at computers to find their way to this site and click all the buttons necessary to make a post asking this question is probably adept enough to find their way to the Mozilla site and click the one button that installs the addon.

Firefox is most definitely faster than IE. That's one of the main reasons I use it. In comparison, IE feels slow.

On the rare occasions I use it, IE is very slow to close for some reason. The closed window often still shows on the windows task bar for ten seconds or more after closing IE.

Just don't get me started about Windows media player. When I open an MP3 it sometimes takes 30 seconds before it starts playing it. If I quick 'File' too quickly after opening the player - i.e. within 5 seconds of starting the program it closes the program! Seriously crap. Don't Microsoft ever test anything?
And why the hell have they hidden the menu bar and other features so I end up right clicking at random all over the interface to try to find and make the options I want appear. User interface hell.