Be Excellent To Each Other

HAYLP!
Someone please recommend me a good ad blocker please! Just lost mine as part of changing virus protection and the internet with ads again is a horrible thing! Preferably a very thorough one that doesnt use too much memory up!

Merci

What browser?

Oops, yes that would be useful. It's via BT so i think its just their version of internet explorer.

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm should do the trick (or switch to Firefox and install Adblock Plus).

IE7Pro has a good builtin adblocker.

Any reason you can't install Firefox, Mr H? Do you just not like it?

Heh, on this computer, sadly enough, the BT jobby does the trick, and as my good lady has all her music stuff for her work set up on it, i've promised i won't bugger around with it too much! I think when they audit it, as they do occassionally they get a bit sniffy about extra software being installed!

Are you talking bookmarks and stuff? Because Firefox can import those.

Join us...

No need. IE7 is a perfectly acceptable browser, and IE7Pro gives you all the adblock goodness you need.

This is true. I wouldn't use Firefox if I wasn't developing web stuff.

[edit]I'd use Chrome, but that's by the by. IE7 is alright.

Ouch! Not when I last checked. I suppose it's literally acceptable. But I'd rather have decent.

Chrome's OK, but it's been crashing a lot for me recently.

OK, IE7 is a perfectly decent browser :0)

Haha! Fair enough. Does it still look slightly soft-focus compared to FF and Chrome?

Cruddy BT variant doesn't have an adblocker. Sigh, who clicks on the ruddy ads anyway?

Isn't that just down to whether you've got 'Cleartype' turned on in IE?

See if this will install.

Whaaa? No idea, my man. Perhaps.

I use Chrome as my default browsing browser. It's ace.

I use Firefox and IE6 and Chrome as my standard web design browsers, then make occasional checks in IE7, IE8, Opera and Safari. I find most of the time if it works in Firefox and IE6, it'll work/look pretty fine in the rest.

Boo!

I know, I know, but I still try to get things working in IE6 as best as possible. It's a horrible, horrible browser and should die, but if I can get things working in IE6 with minimal effort I'll do it. I've stopped employing time-consuming hacks, mind, and focus more on the current browsers; if something doesn't quite look right in IE6, I find it very easy to shrug it off.

Hurrah! This is what I do, too.

Actually, it's probably more than I do. I load it in IE6 and unless there's something obvious that I could change that's stopping it from working completely I say "meh" and close it again.

With the stuff I do, I forget that I'm using Firefox and everyone else in the company uses IE. I usually remember to check something works in both and it's usually when I forget to check that it turns out to be something important.

Do you develop in-house internal stuff?

That's the same with me, so for work I use IE as my primary browser with occasional checks in FF and others.

You could always use Portable Firefox; it unpacks to a folder which you can just put on a USB stick or your desktop or wherever and it won't affect the rest of your PC at all.

Aha, that sounds like a plan! Many thanks to all of you in the BETEO knowledge bank!