[FairfieldLife] Re: OT: Adblock
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: Just since last week I came across this extension to Firefox: http://adblockplus.org/en/ I don't know how I could live so long without it! No ads anymore, no Google context ads, no flash banners anymore, no ads in Yahoo, simply no ads at all. Now this is a major adon to Firefox, the main product of Mozilla, which Google is sponsoring in a mayor way. Cool. I've been using a combo of Adblock and Filterset.G for a long time. I tried Adblock Plus, but I didn't like the big icon it puts in the browser, and some pages were rendering with a much larger gap where the ad would be than with the original Adblock. Don't know about the second point, but the icon you can get rid of easily: There is a little arrow next to it, from the context menu Options tack show in symbol bar, the the icon disappears. You can get to options again in menu extra. So, I woke up to discover that Windows had updated itself and rebooted, and when I fired up Firefox, all the ads were being displayed. Grrr... So, after uninstalling Adblock and Filterset.G, installing Adblock Plus, seeing that Adblock Plus works, uninstalling Adblock Plus, reinstalling Adblock and Filterset.G, seeing that it still didn't work, uninstalling Adblock but leaving Filterset.G installed, and finally reinstalling Adblock Plus, everything works perfectly. The rendering issue with the large gap goes away with the addition of Filterset.G, so that must be a feature of Filterset.G's specific filters and not Adblock/Adblock Plus.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: OT: Adblock
Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: Just since last week I came across this extension to Firefox: http://adblockplus.org/en/ I don't know how I could live so long without it! No ads anymore, no Google context ads, no flash banners anymore, no ads in Yahoo, simply no ads at all. Now this is a major adon to Firefox, the main product of Mozilla, which Google is sponsoring in a mayor way. Cool. I've been using a combo of Adblock and Filterset.G for a long time. I tried Adblock Plus, but I didn't like the big icon it puts in the browser, and some pages were rendering with a much larger gap where the ad would be than with the original Adblock. Don't know about the second point, but the icon you can get rid of easily: There is a little arrow next to it, from the context menu Options tack show in symbol bar, the the icon disappears. You can get to options again in menu extra. So, I woke up to discover that Windows had updated itself and rebooted, and when I fired up Firefox, all the ads were being displayed. Grrr... So, after uninstalling Adblock and Filterset.G, installing Adblock Plus, seeing that Adblock Plus works, uninstalling Adblock Plus, reinstalling Adblock and Filterset.G, seeing that it still didn't work, uninstalling Adblock but leaving Filterset.G installed, and finally reinstalling Adblock Plus, everything works perfectly. The rendering issue with the large gap goes away with the addition of Filterset.G, so that must be a feature of Filterset.G's specific filters and not Adblock/Adblock Plus. That's why I run Ubuntu. :) BTW, new HD-DVD player owners should look at the back of their manual where all the legal stuff is and under the included software and you'll find it includes the Linux kernal and glibc. That's why it takes about a minute for the player to boot up. But then Toshiba in the manual (for those that ever read manuals) mentions that it isn't like a DVD player but more like a computer. Also hope you have no problems with your player as Toshiba warranty support is crap. I've been helping a friend get his laptop screen replaced under warranty and Toshiba has about the worst customer support I've ever seen. They'll send you off on a phone cue playing music that is designed to make you hang up after a few minutes. If we have much more of a problem I'll be referring the problem to Jerry Brown who is now the California State Attorney General (since Toshiba's US headquarters are in California). Also I have video and stills of the defective display to put up something on YouTube to embarrass them.
[FairfieldLife] Re: OT: Adblock
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just since last week I came across this extension to Firefox: http://adblockplus.org/en/ I don't know how I could live so long without it! No ads anymore, no Google context ads, no flash banners anymore, no ads in Yahoo, simply no ads at all. Now this is a major adon to Firefox, the main product of Mozilla, which Google is sponsoring in a mayor way. Cool. I've been using a combo of Adblock and Filterset.G for a long time. I tried Adblock Plus, but I didn't like the big icon it puts in the browser, and some pages were rendering with a much larger gap where the ad would be than with the original Adblock.
[FairfieldLife] Re: OT: Adblock
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: Just since last week I came across this extension to Firefox: http://adblockplus.org/en/ I don't know how I could live so long without it! No ads anymore, no Google context ads, no flash banners anymore, no ads in Yahoo, simply no ads at all. Now this is a major adon to Firefox, the main product of Mozilla, which Google is sponsoring in a mayor way. Cool. I've been using a combo of Adblock and Filterset.G for a long time. I tried Adblock Plus, but I didn't like the big icon it puts in the browser, and some pages were rendering with a much larger gap where the ad would be than with the original Adblock. Don't know about the second point, but the icon you can get rid of easily: There is a little arrow next to it, from the context menu Options tack show in symbol bar, the the icon disappears. You can get to options again in menu extra.
