Question: adware software

You can try these:

Ad-Aware SE

SpyBot

and I heard X-Cleaner is pretty good...but right now I can't find a free version. I've never used SpyHunter before. Good Luck.

 

Check my sig. Use all the programs there. There's more to it than that, but it's a good start.

 

spybot and ad-aware seem to do a pretty good job. maybe my question should be posted in a different thread, but what makes firefox so fast?

 

If you have Xp.

I definetly recomend the Windows spyware removal software. I use that Adaware, and Spybot.

 

Side question: What is the difference between 'tabbed browsing' and simply opening the website in a new window?

 

The best example of a non tabbed browser is the most popular browser Internet Explorer (IE). Let's say for some reason you want to have 5 browsers running at the same time. With IE, you'll have to have 5 separate windows up then which implies on your application tray (that thingy on the bottom where it shows all the viewable applications that you have running) that you'll have 5 IE tabs.

Given the same issue, with tabbed browsers, all you have to do is open one browser (one window). One tabbed browser can then open several or more tabs within the same browser. For example, let's say your on your tabbed browser you have 3 tabs, one opened to google.com, the other espn.com, and the last clutchcity.net. You click on the google tab, and boom you're tabbed browser will now display google. You click on the espn.com tab and now you're browser is showing the espn page wherever you left. etc etc. It's just a cleaner way to browser. Instead having like 7 windows open, you'll just have one. It's kinda of abstract. If you download Firefox (which is free), you'll be able to see what I'm talking about pretty quick.

 

Another benefit is that switching between tabs is faster than switching between windows. Also, it's possible to have multiple windows with multiple tabs as well -- it allows you to have a much more user-friendly web experience.

In FF, it's all about the middle-click. For instance, if you middle-click a folder of bookmarks, it'll open all those bookmarks. I use that feature a LOT.

 

I have downloaded FF and I do like it, but I still have trouble seeing the difference between 5 open tabs and 5 open windows - if your computer is fast it shouldn't really make any difference. Anyways though i'm still new at this and i'll figure it all out soon enough.

 

What Vengenance and I are talking about wasn't in reference to memory consumption or anything like. It's just more convient and cleaner on your deskspace to have one browser that has multiple tabs then it is to have multiple windows on your deskspace. That's all. This tabbed browsing stuff has been around for a while. Anyways, one of the primary reasons why people turn to Firefox is for it's anti pop ups and anti spyware components.

 

I have several folders on the Bookmarks toolbar in Firefox: Sports, News, Computers, etc. All I have to do is click on a folder, then click "Open in tabs," and every site in the folder opens in tabs. That's a lot quicker than opening the ClutchFans home page, the BBS, NBA.com, and ESPN one at a time. I open up a new window and do the same for News, and another for Computers. I'd have open twelve individual windows with IE, and I'd have to individually load twelve different pages with IE.

I used to play around some with Firefox back when it was called Phoenix. I'd install a new version, look at it a little bit, then decide it wasn't worth it. I really started using the program on a regular basis back when it was called Firebird, and started seeing some of the benefits of doing so. Now I can't figure out what I'd do without Firefox. There's no going back once you get used to it.