I actually very rarely see ads. There are several benefits with Firebird that help you with that:
(1) Pop-up blocker. If you need pop-ups from some site, you can make an exception for this site.
(2) Block images from certain servers. Lots of the ads on big sites(newspapers etc.) come from...
I have used Mizilla Firebird for some months. It's really amazing, and years ahead of Internet explorer, which ahsn't been updated in several years. see http://texturizer.net/firebird/features.html for more details.
I know, nothing to do with hairloss, but dheck it out anyways...