Microsoft has created some customized Windows VHDs with the purpose of allowing web designers to test websites in Internet Explorer 9, 8 and 7, for free. To make it easier to set up, xdissent has created a Mac OSX / Linux script that will download the required files, extract them, install the latest VirtualBox guest additions and so on.

December is that month of the year when 90% of the blogs teach you how to 'install' falling snow on your website (but they use the method described in this post to disable it for themselves) and about 0.1% tell you how to disable it.

Anyway, let's get started.

You can find a snow.js demo HERE (so you can test to see if you blocked it correctly).

There are two snow scripts (javascript) that I know of, which we are going to block using AdBlock Plus Firefox extension. After installing the extension, right click the AdBlock Plus icon and select "Preferences", scroll down to "Blocking rules", select any blocked item, select "Add New" end enter:

http://cli.gs/ is a URL shortner with statisticis for that link.

Cligs Helps You Understand Your Traffic:

And of course, http://cli.gs/ is free, but you still have to register to have access to these stats.