What are you talking about? Both Firefox and Adblock are free. I've never payed anything for either one of them (and they don't have my payment information so they haven't secretly billed anything).
And download speed doesn't matter which browser you have. Firefox has spell check, had tabs WAY before IE ever did, has an array of extensions (like MouseGestures, script blocking, etc), and it works for XP and Vista...and Linux too if you want to do that.
It's a far superior browser.
ACK! I just meant that the IE7pro was a tiny little add on download that was fast and easy to install. I wasn't talking about your OS or browser
This little add on has all the extensions too, mouse gestures, spell check, tabs, script blocking, inline search, privacy cleaner......blah blah blah.
And I had adblocker pro, which I guess is different than the one you are talking about......it was 20.00 after a month of trial. I do not use firefox, don't want or need another browser on my machine.
Kevin on the other hand has a couple different operating systems on his, he uses them depending on what he is going to be doing.........I think it's a waste of space for me as I don't game, and don't do much that's all that technical, hehehehe