Flash Player

[Coldicote]

Does anyone know how to temporarily disable Flash Player, like the advert you might be seeing at the top of this page? Not too bad like this one when you can scroll out of view, but they're all over the place on the Internet these days and enough to drive anyone potty. Thanks

[Ethel]

I can see no adverts at all on AnswerBank - I use Firefox as my browser with the AdBlock extension.

When first installed you may see some adverts - but add them to the adblock list (a simple click) and that's it - gone.

[Coldicote]

Thanks Ethel, that's interesting. At the head of this page I see a moving advert for travel, bed and breakfast etc. with a firm named Hilton. See you have Firefox - I'm on Internet Explorer 6 (didn't like 7 so uninstalled it). I must look for an AdBlock provision but am not yet aware of one with I.E. Hopefully I'll be able to make a further posting to say 've found it.

[Ethel]

There is no way I would go back to IE as my main browser, but it's personal choice of course.

[LeMarchand]

Firefox + Adblock + NoScript.

It's quite an eye-opener when I have to use IE, some sites look completely different due to the huge amount of adverts!

[Coldicote]

I'm interested to try Firefox, but can one have two browsers installed at the same time? I created a sing-along website with IE a few years ago with words and sound. Someone emailed me to say they could not hear the sound. It turned out that they were using Firefox, but when they tried IE the sound was O.K., so I do have some reservation about it.

[fo3nix]

That's a problem with your website and the way you made it, not Firefox. Firefox adheres to specific standards; IE adheres to Microsoft's own standards, that just so happen to sometimes tie in with the official standards everyone else uses.

So, the code you used will be IE-only, and hence why it only worked in IE.

Yes, you can have many browsers on your computer at one time. The only exception is IE itself -- it's rooted into Windows itself, so without some hacks you can't run more than one version of IE at a time.

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox

It's free, so give it a whirl! I'd recommend you install Adblock Plus. It does the same job as Adblock, blocking adverts, but also self-updates as new advert companies come online. Works like a charm.

http://adblockplus.org/

[Coldicote]

Thanks everyone for an interesting discussion. I'll sign off now and give Firefox a try, but also keep IE.

[LeMarchand]

In case you are still tracking: you can use IE Tab, which enables you to open specific sites to open in IE within Firefox. You can tell it to always open certain sites in an IE tab, or you can manually switch. Obviously the "IE" tab loses all the advantages of using Firefox like your extensions, though.

[Coldicote]

Thanks again Le Marchand, I was still tracking - just! All this has been most helpful.