Answering the question...

Someone asked ''How do I get IE7 to stop asking this?'' reminds me of an old joke:

Patient: Doctor, when I do this it really hurts!
Doctor: THEN STOP DOING THAT!!!
Myself, for general use Opera 9.1. For Blogger and various other sites that that don't play well with Opera, Firefox. Absolute last resort (such as streaming audio from radio stations) IE.
Want to know why I avoid IE whenever possible? Neither Opera nor Firefox support ActiveX, only IE does. Google ''activex security issues'' to find out why it's good idea to avoid IE...