-> I don't know the secret to firebird, but it sure seems to have cut down on 
-> the junk stuff - no popups or data miners since I installed it?:)

 It simply dosne't let anything Run or be placed on yuor Hard Drive like
that. IE could have been the same but the BIG money is in Pop Up ads and
spy bots and Mr Gates thinks you don't know what you are doing so HE
makes those decisions for you. 
Of course you loose some of the Flasher Attention getting attractions
of the internet that some like.

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