Time to Ban Firefox

There's been a lot of huffing and puffing to promote Firefox as the 'browser of choice' over the past few months. But that may be about to end.

The impetus was a general dissatisfaction with Internet Explorer. Both a perceived 'anything Microsoft is bad' and the 'sitting duck' syndrome - as the dominant browser, every self-styled hacker found it a wonderful target for security 'games'.

I installed it and found some very useful extensions that made light work of some of the Internet marketing drudgery. However, it had a few shortcomings that kept me going back to Maxthon.

Now, it seems, the techies that drive Firefox have put themselves on a direct collision course with marketers.

The Firefox site has published code that will enable any user to block the ads that are the lifeblood of our Internet home businesses.

Not only the spammy ad equivalent, but banners and graphics issued by legitimate and honorable enterprises. Even Google Adwords.

Check it out here: http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/adblock

After you go through that lot, you might just start your own anti-Firefox campaign!