Yeah, you have to disable noScript for vgchartz.com to get those tabs to work. If you add flashblock and adblock, it'll continue to block the ads and stuff. The only problem with that it will then block the graphs and such, but all you have to do to get them to show is to click on them. You can (if you wish) then right click on the graphs and select "allow flash from this site" and it won't block them anymore, but then you get the ads and such. That's how I have it, I have noscript and the above, but I allow vgchartz.com to display flashes and run scripts, and I haven't had any problems. FF is just that safe.

I used to have McAfee. I ended up with my computer bricking on me do to virus'.

On this new one i'm using Avast! It seems to work better... and it's free.

Yes, allow vgchartz.com.

Or you could use none at all. I have had a Windows 98, a Windows XP and now a Windows Vista installation without using any sort of scanner.

The only way to get real protection is to avoid Windows altogether and use Mac OS X, BSD or Linux. Obviously you might not be willing to do that.

 I've been using avast for a while, seems to be decent, although I never really bother to do a scan

 To make it run faster, all you need to do is go here and follow the directions.  You will see a great improvement.

 No. Don't do that. Firstly, you have just put 30x the strain on web servers and internet infrastructure, at a slight benefit to you, and secondly VGChartz is liable to disconnect you (for having many parallel connections) using their BSOD DDOS blocker.

Yeah, it might just be that I've lived with dial up for so long, but broadband is so much faster already, I can't tell how pages could load much faster. The difference between 30 seconds for a page and 1 second for a page is a lot, but the difference (or noticeable difference) between 1 second and .5 second for a page is minimal. I did turn on the initialpaint.delay one, since sometimes larger pages take longer to fully load, and I've noticed that FF waits to display a page until it has most of the website downloaded, whereas IE would just display what's been downloaded so far. On dial up it's a lot more noticeable, since for a page to fully download takes 30 seconds, so on FF it looks like it's not doing anything for 25 of those, and then BOOM the whole page pops up, while on IE every 5 seconds a new part of the page would be displayed.

Thanks again, it's working brilliantly now, I think it was just because I was downstairs for the speed thing, in my room (the head end of my bed is about 1 metre away from the router, albeit wih a wall inbetween) it is definately faster than IE.

I had already downloaded AdBlock, but disabled it for this site anyway.. I never got any porn or sound adverts anyway.

Regarding McAfee, the reason I am not uninstalling it is because I haven't had a virus using it, We had AVG on our last computer and it was totally ruined in the end... I think 4-5 Trojans got through it and AVG could not delete them for some reason, I assume these Trojans basically opened the computer up because we eventually got 200+ viruses before we bought a new laptop to replace it (I got to take the old computer apart and brick the hard-drive ) 

im using firefox i dont have problems, but bacon is having problems.