FireFox VS. IE VS. Other. Which one ?

[Icarus]

I wasn't particularly talking about GBATemp anyway. Think like Youtube. It's a great website that allows people to upload videos for free. Why would Youtube allow that? Because you're a potential ad-clicker and you somehow bring them money. Even I sometimes watch those commercial videos that are on the frontpage.

Or IGN. You can get a paid membership and block the ads. Otherwise, you're gonna have to see them. Not all ads needs to be clicked in order for the site to get money. Just you seeing them is enough for them. and I absolutely love IGN, it's a great website, even though the ads sometimes irritate me, I don't blame them. But you blocking that Ad destroys all the purpose of it.

"In fact, I'm saving them money by saving the bandwidth they would have loaded had I let the ads load on my end."

Besides, this doesn't really make any sense at all because whaeter you block them or not, they're already downloaded and the bandwith is already used. You just don't see it on your browser. It's only a visual thing.

As I said, sooner or later, somehow is going to click on those ads, accidentally or on purpose. Ads aren't there just to annoy you and give a worse browsing experience. Those websites need money. I am suprised how GBATemp can hold down all these stuff with minimum to none advertisement and I'm really glad to that. But as just I said above, when you'll have your own website, you'll understand that better.

 

[PuyoDead]

Ads Don't Generate Money
Adblock Doesn't Scare Me

And in case you're not going to bother reading those, Adblock does prevent the ad from loading in the first place. Nothing is downloaded from the ad server.

 

[Icarus]

Ads Don't Generate Money
Adblock Doesn't Scare Me

And in case you're not going to bother reading those, Adblock does prevent the ad from loading in the first place. Nothing is downloaded from the ad server.

Hahaha, the first one is really funny. Talk about bias. It's a no brainer that the programmer of adblock isn't going to tell you that it's bad to block ads. This line was especially hilarious:

"They also get better statistics and can see which ads people find more interesting — without having to estimate the number of people who wouldn’t click any ad."

If adblock blocks all the ads, how are they supposed to get any kind of statistics on which ads they block? That makes absolutely no sense to me. Blog entries like this aren't credible enough for me honestly. I did read both of them though. You know what's ironic though? Even Firefox has ads in it, like the Google search engine and stuff like that are nothing but advertising and that's their way of making money.

 

[Elrinth]

seriously, ads is the root to all evil, like that bling with all the damn poker.

I hate it!
if I'm surfing videogame sites, I don't want to see commercials. I might aswell turn on my tv. One of the reasons I stopped watching tv is the fact it's so damn stuffed with commercial, makes the movies much longer than they really should be.

 

[Nero]

GBAtemp has ads?

I never knew that.

~Nero

 

[kellyan95]

seriously, ads is the root to all evil, like that bling with all the damn poker.

I hate it!
if I'm surfing videogame sites, I don't want to see commercials. I might aswell turn on my tv. One of the reasons I stopped watching tv is the fact it's so damn stuffed with commercial, makes the movies much longer than they really should be.

Hmm, somebody doesn't get how capitalism works....

 

[arctic_flame]

On topic: I use firefox, although if there was something better, I'd use it. Once you've got a few choice extensions, it's slower than IE, or at least uses more RAM.

 

[kikuchiyo]

It seems to be getting flakier (or maybe my preferences are getting worse and worse) but I still use Camino.

 

[onneeye]

I use SeaMonkey. Hardly use IE.

 

[Brainy142]

uh... seamonkey is powered by the scource of firefox... but in an all-in-1 soution

. Interesting

and for that person seeing ads... hahaha I use adblock pro (free for firefox

) and I never see ads and if i do I can block them forever hahahahaha.

Note for people thinking about going in to firefox (3) "beta" (firefox 2 users can ignore this) the rss for gba temp will NOT work...

o well.

 

[xalphax]

HAIL TO THE FOX!

 

[Verocity]

Firefox by far...the add on's and everything is just perfect.

 

[Jibib]

I had loads of problems with I.E but firefox has worked perfect for the last year

 

[Szyslak]

Ever since I tried Firefox, I don't use IE unless I have to. It's just a better all-around browsing experience for me, and I almost have to use the built in spellchecker now to make any sense. The Add-on system and themes make it that much more fun.

And thanks for the tips from other users. I just installed FF3 b2 and it really is much faster. Native resumable downloads is a big plus for me as well.

 

[avant1277]

I've been using Opera for years. I find it faster and more compact than Firefox. I also really like some of the extra shortcuts like mouse gestures. I use the ones for back and forward a lot and they work really well. I only use IE for my online banking website which only supports IE.

 

[DarkAura]

Love FireFox. Customizable = good enough for me.

 

[HippoSheep]

I guess everybody likes FireFox?

 

[FaRReR]

I guess everybody likes FireFox?

Yes, the majority.

ALL HAIL FIREFOX!!!

 

[xShinobi]

I used to use internet explorer but as soon as i switched to firefox i definitely have found a better experience with firefox, especially with the add-ons. Firefox FTW!

 

[naes]

Opera is the best, but a few sites I frequent are just very bad with Opera for some reason, so I use Firefox most the time.