You can have Mozilla make a sound each time it blocks a popup.
As far as the adware and active x stuff non of it ever affected Macs anyway so I've learned to read the code on pages really well at the same time I go to inspect metas and stuff.
But actually I often still use IE to review since it is such a POS browser on the Mac OS X platform that if the site works in IE it should work in anything, lol.
I did have to US IE to renew the plates on my car yesterday since some idiot working for the state of Florida put JavaScript in the header that blocked all browsers except IE for no reason at all.
Guess I'm lucky that I wasn't a Linux user who needed to renew her plates.