Does Firefox learn?

Hello people.

I am from a county with very expensive internet connection costs. I pay per Mb used. So, in order to be frugal and save money, I have recently tested Firefox to see if it would save me the wasted ad delivery that IE (all of them 6,7 or 8) gave me. IE does not have the ability to block ads.

Firefox does. With the AdBlock Plus plugin.

Now with my question: It seems that with my initial install of Firefox and then selecting the AdBlock Plus feature for the sites I visit.....it was eating my airtime and money. IE 8 appeared to be costing me less in spite of displaying all the ads. That was yesterday.

A whole new thing today...FireFox is running like a dream, blocking ads and not costing me money. It's like quitely doing it's job with a kind of "I know this Website" attitude. "I know what to block" etc.

Is this true? BTW, I reckon it's a great product so far. Been IE all of my computer life.

 

It's probably because Adblock was updated yesterday to version 1.1.2. Mine updated yesterday as soon as I opened Firefox and FF has been not only slightly faster since then, it's no longer hanging up and crashing on certain sites that it used to. Whatever they did with ABP 1.1.2 seems to have improved FF performance as well.

 

i guess it's just ie having had all your favourite pages in cache, not needing to reload much. and firefox had to fill it's caches first.

 

Thanks Dave...makes sense and FF is looking really good right now.

Thank's yuyi64 for your input too.

 

good tip, if you have plenty of hard drive disk space, up the cache in the firefox settings so you don't have to reload pages and use up bandwidth plus it can speed up load times

 

If you want to reduce the amount of data you download, try installing Opera and enabling Turbo boost which allows you to 'Save money on data charges with pay-as-you-go, pre-paid or limited data plans. On the other hand, you could also browse much more for the same amount and not feel guilty.'

It was designed to speed up slow connections by compressing data, but that means less data is downloaded. The amount saved varies, but is supposed to average out at about 50%.

http://www.opera.com/browser/turbo/

 

i forgot that one (but use it on the cellphone). great suggestion. one big + for opera.