On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:56:59 -1000, dsi1 wrote:

> blake murphy wrote:
>
>>
>> i don't know whether i.e. allows for add-ons or not, but firefox has many
>> that are useful (adblock in particular).
>
> Add-ons are supported starting with IE7. Go to: Tools/Manage
> Add-ons/Find More Add-ons. Not much action going on with the IE
> extensions. My guess it's because MS does not encourage/support third
> party extensions.
>
> The extension you should be looking at is Ubiquity, since this seems to
> be the future of the browser and computing i.e., the browser as OS.
>
> My problem with Firefox is browser-add-on-overload, it's getting to be a
> real drag booting it up. That's why I use Chrome as my default. :-)
>

i have three - adblock plus, IETab, and read it later, and two that avg
jammed in there, so i don't see much drag.

you're right, though - there are dozens if you want to go hog-wild.

your pal,
blake