I have a firefox profile set up just for reading the news (most of which is via links from FR or Instapundit). Adblock Plus with the pop-up addon both turned up to 100% blocking, Ghostery for killing trackers, and the PrefBar addon which lets me turn graphics on/off with one click.
Blazing fast loads, anywhere I go, even on my old netbook with just 2 gig or RAM.
This morning we added Ghostery and I just added AdBlocker Plus and the pop-up addition.
Our computers are screaming now.
What the heck took me so long?