>Thank you and Viv for helping me understand the issue. I have never used to setting NoScript (even though I use FireFox) and will have to look for this setting. But is there a downside to setting this the browser to NoScript?

NoScript is primarily a security tool: http://noscript.net/ It is a plugin for FireFox.

The biggest effect you see as a user is that any new sites you visit that use any active content or scripting (which these days is most sites) are broken by default. You have to actively whitelist (approve) this content on sites. You can do this either temporarily (while your FireFox session is active) or permanently. I have *very* few sites permanently whitelisted.

Already, a large percentage of attacks on a typical system are from compromised web sites that attack your browser if you visit them. I predict it will soon be the most prominent attack vector. Blocking scripting etc. on sites you don't explicitly trust just makes tremendous sense. You're automatically protected from any zero-day attacks that make use of any of these vectors.

Using it for a while is a real eye-opener about the 3rd-party advertising and other junk present on many sites.