Use the NoScript plugin to Firefox to eliminate Javajunk problems with websites for good. The majority of informational websites work just fine without it, and you can turn scripting on for the current website with just one click. (It, in fact was what finally switched me to Firefox from IE.) This also cuts down on the most common place for Firefox vunrabilities, making it a lot less likely to get spyware.

Flash is a virus; it's only purpose is to create annoying valueless animations. I've never loaded it onto my systems and I never will. (I understand that it is going to come preloaded on Windows in the future - another good reason to stick with Windows 2000.) Any site that requires it is a site not worth visiting. Don't even *think* of having it in Firefox (leave it in IE if you have to use it occassionally; you'll remember you're going to the dark side).

To answer Ed's original question, the problem for me is slowness. CNN had some ad mechanism that made their pages take 20-40 seconds to load; that was interfering with reading the news. After I installed NoScript, that dropped to 5-10 seconds. There are still ads, but the obnoxious and slow ones are gone.

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